Julia Durbin Day Nursery (Oxford)

Very sorry to be leaving, we will miss the staff and we will always remember the outstanding service this nursery offers!

Our daughters have loved their time at Julia Durbin. Though expensive, provision is brilliant. Staff are extremely supportive and caring, facilities are brilliant and management are knowledgeable and very efficient. We feel very privileged to have been part of their community and our daughters have made lifelong friends. Thank you, Julia Durban.

We have sent both our children to Julia Durbin and have been extremely happy. The staff are amazing and care deeply about the children. Preschool has been great for getting both children ready for school. We highly recommend this nursery.

Our daughter has had a fabulous 4 years at Julia Durbin Nursery. She has been really well-looked after, the staff genuinely care about the children and support their development. The nursery engage with us as parents and we have always felt like part of the nursery family. Our daughter leaves her time at the nursery to start school with lots of memories, friends, and life skills.

An utterly fantastic nursery who have looked after our two daughters with the most wonderful care. Among the numerous things for which we were grateful was the attention that went into taking photos and printing them off on cards for occasions like Easter, the extent to which our children's individual needs were remembered and taken into account, and the sheer range of activities organised to keep our girls entertained and engaged. Julia Durbin Day Nursery have made learning fun, helpful as with important stages of toddlerhood like tantrums and potty training, and given us free access to things like first aid training. We don't have anything to compare Julia Durbin to but we are confident that it was the best place we could have sent our two girls.

Friendly staff that made my daughter's stay at nursery and pre-school an absolute delight. They keep the children well-fed (breakfast, lunch, tea) and hydrated. There are plenty of fun activities organised by the staff to keep them entertained. It makes each day just that little bit special. They play and interact with mixed age groups and my child's vocabulary has expanded significantly thanks to Julia Durbin's warm and caring teachers. I am particularly pleased by the high quality and varied food and enjoy the parent zone app where they upload pictures and summaries from the day's activities. I highly recommend Julia Durbin Day Nursery and we will miss the lovely teachers!

A truly excellent nursery. The staff are fantastic and my children are always happy when I pick them up.

My daughter is now in her second room and she absolutely loves being there! There’s a great outdoor space and the kids are out as much as they can be (weather dependent)! The kids have so many choices of play equipment, water play, sand pits, mobile scooters and other things it’s great. It’s also lovely to see the interaction of the bigger children with the little ones in the outside garden.

The admin staff are also brilliant and really do make you feel welcome. Great nursery!

We absolutely love the nursery and so does our little one. He happily goes in and never wants to leave. Nursery has an amazing atmosphere, the facilities are great and the garden is wonderful. They cater for any particular needs and are very cautious. Nursery organises many events for parents to join in as well, they also do charity events, and parents meetings. I particularly like the updates with photos we get in the app so we can see what they got up to that day. They definitely positively influenced my little one's development and I would recommend the nursery to anyone.

I have had two children at Julia Durbin Day Nursery (Oxford) since 2017. Their time at nursery has been invaluable - for their learning/development and for me knowing they are safe and well looked after whilst I'm at work. this year our time at Julia Durbin Day Nursery (Oxford) will come to an end as my oldest child starts school. We will miss everything about it but especially the staff and friendships we have with the team. I can highly recommend Julia Durbin Day Nursery (Oxford) without hesitation.

We are really delighted with the care that our child receives at Julia Durbin Nursery, he has attended since ten months old and at each stage of the nursery has really flourished in this creative and nurturing environment. The staff are outstanding, the breadth of activities is impressive and the garden is wonderful. We know that our little boy is in wonderful hands and he loves attending nursery here.

Butterflies is a wonderful environment -my son is excited to go every morning and returns home with amazing stories of all he's done. He's made friends and developed hugely.

In Ladybirds, the staff go above and beyond to give our daughter the best possible experience. This includes shaping her play and learning to help with things she can struggle with (eg. using play doctors kits to reduce her anxiety about visiting the doctor) and also staying after hours to undertake additional training specific to our daughter's needs. They spend lots of time outside and have a wide range of other play and developmental activities.

We are very happy that our children attend Julia Durbin Day Nursery (Oxford). They are very happy there. They have been attending for just over three months. Staff engagement with the children, and us as parents has been fantastic. The facilities (both indoor and outdoor) in both of their rooms are exciting and engaging as are the staff that care for them. There is a genuine sense that the staff really are invested in the progression of the children which is such comfort to us. The catering is also amazing, the children love their food and the variety again is to be commended. We are very happy.

I am so pleased our children are at Julia Durbin, I would definitely recommend the nursery to other families.

My daughter loves going to Julia Durbin Day Nursery (Oxford) and has really come out of her shell since she started. The transition of her starting nursery has been so much easier than I expected and all to do with how well I know she is cared for there. She loves her food and always seems to get a great variety! There is clearly also a lot of effort that goes into the activities they do each day.

Would highly recommend it to anyone.

Thank you Julia Durbin. I 100% recommend it to every single family out there.

All the staff at Julia Durbin are warm, welcoming and friendly They put children and their parents at ease and make what can be challenging transitions a smooth process. The activities they set up for the children each day are so creative and allow exploration of such a variety of skills. They also have a wide range of events throughout the nursery. Soup and sparkler night was a huge success!

Wonderful nursery! The staff are fantastic and really caring. Great food, which my daughter eats much better there than at home! Fabulous and varied activities. An enormous garden which is unusual in Oxford! Absolutely delighted, and my daughter loves attending. Thank you to the whole Julia Durbin team!