Sinclair Nursery

6 Sinclair Drive, Battlefield, Glasgow G42 9QE
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9.6 14 Reviews
  • Sinclair Nursery, Glasgow
Sinclair nursery is based in the south side of Glasgow, providing care and education for children aged from six weeks to five-years-old.

The nursery is very inclusive environment, with given children, parents and staff being given the opportunity to get involved in planning and assessing the quality of care provided.

Staff regularly seek parent's opinions about service and improvements.

Children are encouraged to achieve their full potential at their own pace.

Staff provide equal opportunities for each child ensuring the curriculum offered is inclusive of children with learning difficulties and or disabilities and children from different backgrounds.
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Type of Service

  • Day Nursery
  • Open all year
  • Full Day Care

Group/Owner

Person in Charge

  • Victoria McPhail (Manager)

Number of Childcare Staff

  • 34

Total Places for Children

  • 97

Age Range

  • from 0 years 3 months
  • to 5 years 0 months

Funding & Fees

  • Sinclair Nursery is in partnership with Glasgow City Council. Funded places are available.


    Please contact us for a copy of our current fees or for any information on funding.

Opening Times

  • Monday 08:00-18:00
    Tuesday 08:00-18:00
    Wednesday 08:00-18:00
    Thursday 08:00-18:00
    Friday 08:00-18:00

When Closed

  • Bank Holidays & 1 week at Christmas

Parking

  • On street parking, Sinclair Drive

Sinclair Nursery Reviews (14)

9.6

Sinclair Nursery has a Review Score of 9.6 (9.579) out of 10, based on 14 reviews in the last 2 years.
Over all time Sinclair Nursery has 14 reviews.

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Review from S L (Mother of Child) published on 16 July 2025 Submitted via Postal Card • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
Sinclair is a friendly and very professional nursery where it feels like everyone knows your child well and their particular needs. The staff are excellent and there is a strong sense of community. The team has made recent improvements to the settling in process, which made settling my second child
a smooth process. I would not hesitate to recommend Sinclair Nursery.
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Review from Gillian M (Mother of Child) published on 2 June 2025 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
Our little one loves nursery, she has formed lovely bonds with the staff. Her speech and language have come on great within the last 6 months. Her personality has developed and her confidence has boomed. I feel her learning is well supported by the staff in the room.
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Review from Z N (Mother of Child) published on 13 May 2025 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
It's hard to put into words how much Sinclair's means to us as a family. The nursery have been part of our lives for 7years, between my daughter starting at age 1 till school and as she finished, my son started and now he will soon finish to start school too. They have not only been part of so many
milestones, but they have championed and encouraged our children every step of the way. So much care, patience, attention, and genuine interest, shines through in everything they do, in each and every age room. The nursery have grown and evolved too over the years but their core have stayed constant, and our children have grown into confident, curious, creative and inspired individuals. The playroom staff, management, the cook, handy man, they are all one big team, and every aspect in their daily schedules is shared with the children, no matter how busy they are. Our children have loved attending Sinclair's and we will miss them all as we leave for school one final time.
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Review from J M (Father of Child) published on 19 March 2025 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
Caring, attentive staff and always have the children's best interests, putting their needs first and maintaining a good relationship with the parents. My child goes in happy and looks forward to his day at nursery as he is always excited to see what fun things he's going to do. Sinclair Nursery has
helped my child develop and grow emotionally, physically and most importantly socially.
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Review from J D (Mother of Child) published on 5 March 2025 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
Staff is always positive and encouraging.
All changes are introduced at the right pace for my child. Staff always asks about my preferences and communicates in detail my child's progress.
My child thrives and is very happy at the nursery.
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Review from A W (Mother of Child) published on 13 February 2025 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
Staff are always very welcoming, work together really well and my daughter loves her time at the nursery.
They all take time to learn the names of the kids they aren't directly working with and this is lovely to see. Really supportive during potty training and I feel the curriculum in the 4-5 years
in particular is brilliant, my daughter enjoys learning and is more than ready for her next steps in education thanks to Sinclair Nursery.
My daughter's dairy intolerance has been handled brilliantly at all times, her comforter has always been looked after and kept safe which really means a lot to us as we know they have so much going on!
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Review from L K (Mother of Child) published on 13 February 2025 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
Really pleased with the nursery overall. The staff are very friendly, kind and professional. The variety of fun learning activities the children participate in is great. And the feedback given about your child's day is always thorough.
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Review from L H (Mother of Child) published on 5 February 2025 Submitted via Postal Card • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
Staff are excellent and attend to my child with kindness and compassion. The nursery is always noisy which points me to the fact that the children are always busy enjoying themselves.
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Review from N W (Father of Child) published on 4 February 2025 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
Our son has attended Sinclair Nursery from the age of 11 months and he is now coming up to 5 years old. Overall the service provided has been excellent, from management to the wonderful staff looking after the children. Our son thoroughly enjoys his days at nursery and his reading and writing development
has come on in the last year. Worth noting what a wonderful cook they have, who provides a variety of healthy and delicious meals. We would highly recommend Sinclair's.
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Review from L P (Mother of Child) published on 20 January 2025 Submitted via Postal Card • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
Overall, the nursery team are amazing. All the ladies in the baby room are great. They all really seem to care and really get to know you and your child. They work so hard and even in stressful times e.g short staffed you would never know it.
The only point for improvement I would note is the communication,
before starting it was quite poor and we had no real information on starting, settling in etc.
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Review from B R (Mother of Child) published on 10 May 2024 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
Always feel like my children are being well looked after, staff are warm and welcoming and get a full debrief on collection. The nursery seems to do plenty of activities with the children, although I do feel like a few more trips outside of the nursery would be nice e.g. park. Lunch seems varied and
my children seem to enjoy it. Get updates with observations and photos on the app fairly regularly and I always enjoy seeing the photos. Most importantly the children seem very happy.
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Review from N S (Mother of Child) published on 7 May 2024 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
My daughter has been at Sinclair since she was 10 months old and she’s now 3. She adores the staff, the environment and has made so many friends. She has fantastic confidence and a great vocabulary. A lot of that is down to her teachers here.
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Review from A M (Mother of Child) published on 3 May 2024 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
The staff were great settling my daughter and made it such an easy experience as I was very anxious, the staff made me feel very comfortable with the whole process! My daughter loves coming here and is coming on leaps and bounds with the quality of care she is getting. I would highly recommend this
nursery.
Reply from Shona Maclean, Marketing Manager - Scotland & The North at Sinclair Nursery
Thank you for your lovely review. We appreciate you taking the time to complete.
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Review from N W (Mother of Child) published on 27 March 2024 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
Sinclair Nursery provides a fun stimulating and nurturing environment for my child. The staff are friendly and engage with the parents at drop off and pick up time to hand over information.
My child has learned loads there in preparation for school and all learning is really creative so that it doesn’t
feel like learning but they’re learning through games and play.
I am very happy with the level of care and the environment too.
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Current Review Score: 9.6 (9.579)

Overview of Review Score

The Review Score of 9.6 (9.579) out of 10 for Sinclair Nursery is based on a) the Average Rating and b) the number of positive Reviews.

  1. The Average Rating is 4.9 out of 5 from 14 Reviews in the last 24 months.
  2. The score for the number of positive Reviews is 4.7 out of 5 from 14 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:

  1. 5 Points are available for the Average Rating from all Reviews in the last 24 months. The Average Rating of 4.857 for Sinclair Nursery is calculated as follows: ( (146 Excellents x 5) + (20 Goods x 4) + (2 Satisfactorys x 3) ) ÷ 168 Ratings = 4.857
  2. 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 4.722 Points relating to the number of positive Reviews for Sinclair Nursery is based on 14 positive Reviews in the last 24 months and is calculated as per below:

    The 5 points available are broken down as follows:

    1. 4 points are available for the first 10 Positive Reviews in the last 24 months; 3 points for the first Positive Review, and then 0.125 Points for each of the next four Positive Reviews and then 0.1 Points for the next five Positive Reviews. (1st = 3.000, 2nd = 0.125, 3rd = 0.125, 4th = 0.125, 5th = 0.125, 6th = 0.100, 7th = 0.100, 8th = 0.100, 9th = 0.100, 10th = 0.100) 3 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 = 4
    2. 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 97 number of registered child places is 19.4. 14 Positive Reviews ÷ 19.4 = 0.722
  3. When a Review is submitted by someone who has previously submitted a Review, only the latest Review will count towards the Review Score.
  4. If a Day Nursery does not have a review in the last 24 months, then it will not have a Review Score.

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Awards / Recognitions (6)

Meet the Team (8)

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Vicky McPhail

Job Title: Nursery Manager Joined: 2000

BA Childhood Practice - Strathclyde University

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Donna McConville

Job Title: Depute Manager Joined: 2000

SVQ Level 9 Children and Young People

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Ula Bettley

Job Title: Teacher Joined: 2017

MA - Social Care & Early Education
BA - Early & Preschool Education

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Zeenat Murray

Job Title: Senior Supervisor Joined: 1999

SVQ Level 3 Early Years Care & Education

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Aleisha McNamee

Job Title: Senior Supervisor Joined: 2020

BA Childhood Practice - Glasgow University

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Rachel Allison

Job Title: Supervisor Joined: 2024

PDA + Childhood Practice - Level 8

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Mandy Garden

Job Title: Early Years Practitioner Joined: 1994

SVQ Level 3 Early Years Care & Education

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Margaret Mitchel

Job Title: Early Years Practitioner Joined: 2018

BA Education & Social Service - Strathclyde University
HNC Early Education & Childcare

Frequently Asked Questions about Sinclair Nursery

What is the Age Range of Children that Sinclair Nursery accepts?

Sinclair Nursery accepts Children aged from 0 years 3 months to 5 years 0 months.

What Days & Hours is Sinclair Nursery Open?

Sinclair Nursery is open: Monday 08:00-18:00, Tuesday 08:00-18:00, Wednesday 08:00-18:00, Thursday 08:00-18:00, Friday 08:00-18:00.

How many Children does Sinclair Nursery have capacity for?

Sinclair Nursery has capacity for a total of 97 Children.

How far is Sinclair Nursery to the centre of Glasgow?

2.6 mile(s) as the crow flies, distance by road may be significantly further.

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