Pilrig Children's Nursery

Pilrig is a wonderful nursery where my daughter is very happy. The staff are lovely doing a wide range of activities with the children from singing to crafts to trips to the park and fire station museum. The home-cooked food is also really great and I love to know my daughter eats a healthy variety.

The children have fun-packed days with the social and educational skills to start school with confidence!

Both my children have attended Pilrig and the level of care they receive is excellent. They've both loved all their teachers, and the staff seem to genuinely show an interest in them and nurturing them and letting their characters shine. We always get a great rundown of their day, and even occasionally get to try the delicious homemade food prepared for the children! The outside area is brilliant and the kids are usually running around in the garden which is great for tiring them out! Cannot fault Pilrig, we'll be sad when my youngest has to leave for school.

My daughter attended from age 3 to 5 and has just finished up to start school. Pilrig Children's Nursery has provided such a safe, calm, nurturing environment for her, and the social skills and self-assurance she has gained from that experience are wonderful to see. The (pre-Covid) free-flow between the rooms so that kids of all ages could play together was really beneficial for all, and will hopefully return. The nursery's outdoor space is fantastic. I have recommended this nursery to friends already, and I thank the team there for helping to provide my daughter with the skills and confidence she needs now for starting school.

This was a great nursery. Our little one has just left to go to big school and they were great at preparing him for the move. His first nursery shut down during Covid and so the staff was great at handling the transition and integrating him with the room. We really saw his confidence grow through this nursery.

Pilrig Children's Nursery is a lovely nursery. My son had been going for over 3 years and has loved his time there. The nursery has a nice feel with lots of natural light and a great outdoor space. The children spend a lot of time outside even if the weather isn’t great. For the older children, there seems to be a good mix of structured activities/educational discussion and free flow play. Staff are friendly and give a good handover at the end of the day.

My daughter attended here from 2 to 5 years old and absolutely loved it. She loves being outdoors so really thrived being able to go in the garden at her own will, along with the forest school offered. Communication with staff has always been easy and effective. I would highly recommend and hope to send my newborn there at a later stage.

Love this nursery. Our daughter has learned so much, has had such a lovely time and made best friends. Staff are all super enthusiastic and positive and the space is lovely. Food appears to be good too.

We sent all three of our children to Pilrig Nursery from infants all the way to starting school. It is a lovely local nursery with a great team of staff. The facilities are excellent and there are (pre-Covid) great opportunities for kids of different ages to integrate throughout the nursery. The enclosed outdoor area is a real asset and provides a sheltered and protected space for kids to be outdoor whenever they want.

From his first day at 11 months old until he left at 5 for school, my son had a fabulous time at Pilrig. He was so well cared for and I always felt that the staff working with him were genuinely interested in him as a little person and what he loved to do. The nursery encouraged his love of the outdoors through the forest schools programme and he adored his 'daily mile'. They gave him lots of opportunities to learn about the world around him and to explore his interests through play. He did every activity on offer - yoga, sport, dance, music, care home visits, library visits, theatre trips - and all were included in the fees. While he is settled and very happy now in school, we all miss the nursery! Both myself and my husband have recommended Pilrig Children's Nursery to friends and family and feel very lucky that we found it for our son when we did.

Whatever your own childhood experience was I’m sure Pilrig will match or exceed it.

Very organised run nursery with staff who genuinely care. My son thrived from being at Pilrig Nursery, he often asks when he can go back!! There was always exciting and fun activities the staff arranged for the children indoors and outings. Honestly such a lovely nursery with brilliant staff!

We've had two children in the nursery over the past couple of years and have nothing but good feedback to give on our experiences.

Both children were very clearly well looked after and comfortable with their surroundings and with the staff, and it was always a comfort to see them so happy at the end of each day.

There always appeared to be a very good balance between organised activities and scope for free play. Activities they enjoyed most were often trips to 'forest school', music and 'tatty bumpkins', as well as being involved in end-of-year shows. The big play area out the back was also a hit. And they were always fed well with healthy meals and snacks.

We were sorry to leave the nursery and could not recommend it highly enough to anyone looking for pre-school childcare in the area.

Due to moving out of the area, our son was only at Meadows for 6 months and it was with great regret that we ended his time there! The staff were very caring and supportive of him, and we could tell he learned so much from the other children. His language skills, in particular, became noticeably more developed. He also adores washing his hands with soap now! The outdoor space is outstanding and something we will really miss when we move on.

Our eldest child started at Meadows Pilrig shortly after it opened - in 2014 - and was there for 3 years prior to starting school while our younger child started in 2016. Both really enjoyed their time at nursery for a number of reasons, including the friendly and engaging staff members (many of whom have been there since the beginning), the excellent and varied food; the family feel of the place; the huge range of activities on offer and the chance to spend much of each day playing outdoors.

We've also - as have the children - been very impressed by the variety of other activities offered - from trips to the local care home to forest schools to visits to a food bank and the children's own productions of plays and sing-alongs in the local church.

It's given both kids a great start in life and I couldn't recommend it more highly.

A wonderful nursery where my son made great friends. The ethos of free play and outdoor learning is absolutely embedded in the wide range of activities on site in the rooms (as well as additional sport/yoga/music activities at no extra cost) and in the lovely outdoor spaces. The blocks of 'forest school' days spent in the local woods were a favourite. Lots of effort is made to have links with the wider community through regular outings to libraries, food banks and elderly sheltered housing etc.

The cook encourages the children to help prepare fresh food and baking. The staff are very caring, involved and work hard to make the children's' experience fun. My son was very happy there and Meadows prepared him well for school. He left with lasting, happy memories of his nursery days!

The children spend lots of time outside if they choose and there are lots of extra activities available. I would recommend this nursery highly.

Our two daughters attended Meadows Nursery at Pilrig for 3 years. We very much recommend it.

The staff are diverse, bringing different skills and experiences to the children. Turnover seemed low and they seemed to genuinely care about the girls which is really reassuring as a parent.

The food is homemade and the cook always involved the children. Indeed she could always get them to eat things they would never accept at home!

The garden is large and much time is spent out there.

Thoughtful and creative activities are planned each week, which the girls would delight in talking about once they were home.

We were really sad to leave Meadows, they were like a family.

Our daughter attended Meadows Nursery from 17 months to 3 years. From our first meeting with staff and her first settle, we knew that we had happened upon a really good nursery. The atmosphere that the staff, parents and children created really was like the best extended family you could ever know. Our daughter talked excitedly about her friendships, sand, learning, songs and the many staff that showed her such love and affection during her time there. Staff responded so well to parental queries and it was a pleasure both dropping our daughter off and collecting at the end of her fun day there. The set up allows free play (both in and outdoors) and focussed learning relevant to the age/stage group. Forest schools were also offered to children once they turned three and our daughter loved this experience. In terms of the 3-5 curriculum I was very impressed with how this was covered and the staff couldn't hide their excitement at being part of our daughters learning.

I love Meadows at Pilrig. My daughter has loved it and is now going to school. It is a smaller nursery which is great. I will be sending my second there when he is the right age. The staff are all great and you get plenty of feedback and communication. Cannot recommend them highly enough.