hdc's Dartmouth provides a safe, nurturing, stimulating environment, offering a perfect start for your child’s learning journey. The nursery offers exceptional care, enriched by unique learning opportunities for your child. One such experience is child-friendly cooking classes, helping to equip children with valuable skills and deeper knowledge of the cooking process.
In the Under 2's room, you will find a spacious and calm space with plenty of windows and light with...
hdc's Dartmouth provides a safe, nurturing, stimulating environment, offering a perfect start for your child’s learning journey. The nursery offers exceptional care, enriched by unique learning opportunities for your child. One such experience is child-friendly cooking classes, helping to equip children with valuable skills and deeper knowledge of the cooking process.
In the Under 2's room, you will find a spacious and calm space with plenty of windows and light with a private deck that allows for fresh air. As your child becomes more independent, emphasis on child-centred practice and growth will give them the self-reliance and confidence to thrive. Their nursery educators enable active learning based on play and exploration. The Toddler Room has key areas and activities to capture the essential "learning in the moment". The room has plenty of natural light and the Toddler Room also has its own deck area to allow for fresh air and sunshine. As children approach their third birthday, with discussions with parents/carers, they will start a transition period into the nursery's Preschool Room. In their HDC Preschool Room, they focus on both prime and specific areas of learning – communication and language, physical development, personal, social and emotional development, literacy, mathematics, understanding the world, expressive arts and design.
The nursery focuses on ensuring that their leavers are fully prepared for starting Reception at their chosen primary school. They have excellent links with the local primary schools and liaise with schools and parents to ensure that your child's transition is as smooth as possible.
The nursery proudly offers a 5% discount to NHS, The Britannia Royal Naval College, The Medical Practice (Victoria Road), Dartmouth Clinic (Mayors Avenue), Torbay Hospital and Totnes Community Hospital workers.
Review from A D (Father of Child) published on 8 November 2022 Submitted via Website•
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Staff turnover is reasonably high, but they are always friendly. Nutritionally there is over usage of bulky products such as legumes and the day-to-day menu isn't particularly varied. Outdoor and indoor spaces are good and well-used.
I have marked cleanliness as low, the nursery looks clean but...
Staff turnover is reasonably high, but they are always friendly. Nutritionally there is over usage of bulky products such as legumes and the day-to-day menu isn't particularly varied. Outdoor and indoor spaces are good and well-used.
I have marked cleanliness as low, the nursery looks clean but the transmission of infection is relatively high.
↩Reply from Beth Lewendon, Marketing Coordinator at hdc Dartmouth
Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. With many sectors across the country, Early Years has been affected in the last 12 months by severe staff shortages. We are working hard to ensure that we have well-qualified and experienced staff at all of our sites.
Our menus change regularly...
Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. With many sectors across the country, Early Years has been affected in the last 12 months by severe staff shortages. We are working hard to ensure that we have well-qualified and experienced staff at all of our sites. Our menus change regularly and aim to provide a variety of healthy options for the children, meeting the required nutritional guidelines. We are always looking to better our menus so please do let us know if you have any particular suggestions as to what you would like to see on our menus. You can provide this feedback on letusknow@tosn.co.uk. Thank you for your additional feedback regarding the cleanliness. We will pass this on to the Nursery Manager as well as the Area Manager.
Thank you again for your feedback and for taking the time to write us a review.
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Review from K C (Mother of Child) published on 15 June 2022 Submitted via Website•
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I can't recommend this nursery highly enough. Both our kids have been at hdc Dartmouth
since they were younger than one and the staff have been consistently caring, responsive, thoughtful and creative. The activities they do there are great - lots of messy and outdoor play. The staff are always...
I can't recommend this nursery highly enough. Both our kids have been at hdc Dartmouth
since they were younger than one and the staff have been consistently caring, responsive, thoughtful and creative. The activities they do there are great - lots of messy and outdoor play. The staff are always ready to meet the children where they are and develop a learning and caring plan that's best for them.
↩Reply from Beth Lewendon, Marketing Coordinator at hdc Dartmouth
Thank you for your review! We really appreciate it!
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Review from K E (Mother of Child) published on 3 December 2021 Submitted via Postal Card•
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Hdc Dartmouth is a very good nursery. My daughter has come a long way since joining and loves attending. The staff and management are very informative, helpful and always keep parents up to date on events, children's progress, sleep, eating etc. which I like. The food menu is amazing with a variety...
Hdc Dartmouth is a very good nursery. My daughter has come a long way since joining and loves attending. The staff and management are very informative, helpful and always keep parents up to date on events, children's progress, sleep, eating etc. which I like. The food menu is amazing with a variety of different food available. My daughter loves being outside and she is able to be this at nursery which I think is really good.
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Review from J B (Mother of Child) published on 15 April 2021 Submitted via Postal Card•
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My son loves going to nursery. The staff are friendly and professional. The aesthetics are fun, educational and do lots of things that we don't do at home. I would highly recommend hdc Dartmouth.
My son loves going to nursery. The staff are friendly and professional. The aesthetics are fun, educational and do lots of things that we don't do at home. I would highly recommend hdc Dartmouth.
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Review from Sigourney M (Mother of Child) published on 22 March 2021 Submitted via Website•
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A fantastic nursery, super friendly, educational, fun and great meals. My daughter absolutely loves it! Would recommend one hundred percent. We are going to seriously miss it once she starts primary school. Thank you so much to everyone at hdc Darmouth.
A fantastic nursery, super friendly, educational, fun and great meals. My daughter absolutely loves it! Would recommend one hundred percent. We are going to seriously miss it once she starts primary school. Thank you so much to everyone at hdc Darmouth.
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Review from Becky H (Mother of Child) published on 22 March 2021 Submitted via Website•
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Our daughter goes to nursery here, she’s now twenty months old and she absolutely loves it. She always had so much fun and is learning lots of new things fast. We also get updates throughout the day via the app about what she’s been up to, what she has eaten and if she has slept. The staff are so...
Our daughter goes to nursery here, she’s now twenty months old and she absolutely loves it. She always had so much fun and is learning lots of new things fast. We also get updates throughout the day via the app about what she’s been up to, what she has eaten and if she has slept. The staff are so friendly and welcoming. I would one hundred percent recommend, thank you for everything you do!
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Review from Lizzy TR (Mother of Child) published on 22 March 2021 Submitted via Website•
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hdc Darmouth is a very special place. The staff show incredible kindness and care towards both of my children and they have relentless positivity and enthusiasm! It is clear that my daughter absolutely adores her key worker and when recently talking to my honest three year old son, he told me that...
hdc Darmouth is a very special place. The staff show incredible kindness and care towards both of my children and they have relentless positivity and enthusiasm! It is clear that my daughter absolutely adores her key worker and when recently talking to my honest three year old son, he told me that he always wants to go to nursery with his key worker! Communication via the app is excellent, we feel very well informed by the detailed and regular updates and photos we receive. The management at hdc Dartmouth is helpful and very responsive. In summary, hdc Dartmouth is a fantastic nursery!
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Review from Joel J (Father of Child) published on 19 March 2021 Submitted via Website•
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My son has attended the nursery since a baby and throughly enjoys going. He has a really good relationship with the staff and I feel he's very well cared for. We enjoy seeing the pictures and observations on the app of the exciting activities he does!
My son has attended the nursery since a baby and throughly enjoys going. He has a really good relationship with the staff and I feel he's very well cared for. We enjoy seeing the pictures and observations on the app of the exciting activities he does!
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Review from C B (Mother of Child) published on 19 March 2021 Submitted via Website•
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My child really enjoys going to nursery. He runs in very happily each day. He always does lots of different activities and lots of things that we wouldn’t normally do at home, which is great. All the staff are very enthusiastic and caring.
My child really enjoys going to nursery. He runs in very happily each day. He always does lots of different activities and lots of things that we wouldn’t normally do at home, which is great. All the staff are very enthusiastic and caring.
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27 Apr 2026
We are delighted to share that The Old Station Nursery has once again been recognised as one of the Top 20 Nursery Groups in the UK by Daynurseries.co.uk for 2026....
08 Apr 2026
Our 1-minute school-readiness check-in, created by Early Years (EYFS) professionals, gives you a helpful snapshot of how prepared your child is to start school. Once you’ve completed it, we’ll send...
17 Dec 2025
The Old Station Nursery is proud to announce that it has raised £11,971 for Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity during the first year of its official charity partnership, strengthening connections across...
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Tash SladeJob Title Nursery ManagerJoined 2023
Hello! I'm Tash and I am the Nursery Manager here at hdc Dartmouth.
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