Cherrytrees Children's Nurseries - Melrose Reviews (2)
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Cherrytrees Children's Nurseries - Melrose has a Review Score of 8.0 (7.956) out of 10, based on 2 reviews in the last 2 years.
Over all time Cherrytrees Children's Nurseries - Melrose has 2 reviews.
Review from C B (Mother of Child) published on 3 December 2025
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Staff are excellent so friendly and good with my child. Manager is lovely and approachable: lots of outdoor space which is great. Good activities undertaken. However, I feel sometimes the food is not nutritious e.g. sausages, quorn etc. Also several times a month it is soup. Which I feel is not substantial
enough. Also ham is not healthy - (contains nitrites). very important to give children the best - starting out in life.
Reply from Marie Green, Childcare Manager at Cherrytrees Children's Nurseries - MelroseThank you for your review and your kind comments regarding our excellent staff team. Our Menu's are prepared in consultation with the Scottish Government "Setting The Table document" and we also use some of the sample menu's from the document which includes both pork sausages and vegetarian sausages. Sausages are on our menu once every four weeks and are served with potatoes and vegetables. We offer home made soup once a week, prepared with a variety of nutritious vegetables and a roll/filled roll. We have used fresh diced chicken in the past but as we do not have a raw food licence and so the chicken comes pre packed ready to be emptied into a tray but this had to be checked for fatty bits/bone and so we chose to use quorn which has 14grams of protein and 5g of fibre per 100g with saturated fats only 0.3g. We appreciate your feedback and will use this when reviewing our Menu.
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Review from Kirsty M (Mother of Child) published on 26 November 2025
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My son has been attending Cherrytrees Nursery (baby & beanie room) for the past 12 months and he absolutely loves it. The staff are friendly and approachable, and always keep me well informed. The setting itself is well laid out, with lots for children to do both indoors and outdoors. The menu choices
are healthy, and they cater well for allergies. I have no doubt that my son is well looked after and is in safe hands whilst he is at Cherrytrees Nursery.
Reply from Marie Green, Childcare Manager at Cherrytrees Children's Nurseries - MelroseThank you for your review and your kind words regarding our Nursery and our staff.
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Current
Review Score: 8.0 (7.956)
Overview of Review Score
The Review Score of 8.0 (7.956) out of 10 for Cherrytrees Children's Nurseries - Melrose is based on a) the Average Rating and b) the number of positive Reviews.
- The Average Rating is 4.7 out of 5 from 2 Reviews in the last 24 months.
- The score for the number of positive Reviews is 3.2 out of 5 from 2 positive Reviews in the last 24 months.
Detailed Breakdown of Review Score
The maximum Review Score for a Day Nursery is 10, which is made up from the Average Rating of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) and the Number of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) in the last 24 months:
- 5 Points are available for the Average Rating from all Reviews in the last 24 months. The Average Rating of 4.708 for Cherrytrees Children's Nurseries - Melrose is calculated as follows: ( (18 Excellents x 5) + (5 Goods x 4) + (1 Satisfactorys x 3) ) ÷ 24 Ratings = 4.708
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5 Points are available for the number of Positive Reviews in the last 24 months. A Positive Review is defined as any Review with an 'Overall Experience' of '4' or '5' (out of a max rating '5').
The 3.248 Points relating to the number of positive Reviews for Cherrytrees Children's Nurseries - Melrose is based on 2 positive Reviews in the last 24 months and is calculated as per below:
The 5 points available are broken down as follows:
- 4 points are available for the first 20 Positive Reviews in the last 24 months; 3 points for the first Positive Review, 0.125 Points for each of the next four Positive Reviews, 0.05 Points for the next five Positive Reviews, and finally 0.025 Points for the next ten Positive Reviews. (1st = 3.000, 2nd = 0.125, 3rd = 0.125, 4th = 0.125, 5th = 0.125, 6th = 0.050, 7th = 0.050, 8th = 0.050, 9th = 0.050, 10th = 0.050, 11th = 0.025, 12th = 0.025, 13th = 0.025, 14th = 0.025, 15th = 0.025, 16th = 0.025, 17th = 0.025, 18th = 0.025, 19th = 0.025, 20th = 0.025) 3 + 0.125 = 3.125
- 1 point is available for the number of Positive Reviews reaching 20% of the number of registered child places in the last 24 months. If this number is partially reached, then that proportion of 1 point is given. eg a Day Nursery registered for a maximum of 50 child places has to reach 10 Positive Reviews to receive 1 point, if it has 7 reviews it will receive 0.7 points. 20% of the 81 number of registered child places is 16.2. 2 Positive Reviews ÷ 16.2 = 0.123
- When a Review is submitted by someone who has previously submitted a Review, only the latest Review will count towards the Review Score.
- If a Day Nursery does not have a review in the last 24 months, then it will not have a Review Score.