LEYF - New Cross Nursery & Pre-School

Excellent nursery with great facilities, plenty of outdoor space, caring friendly staff, healthy tasty food and a wide variety of learning and fun opportunities for kids of all ages. Recommended!

The nursery staff are welcoming and friendly and include male and female members as well as many different cultures, languages and ethnicities. I think this provides my son with a varied and interesting understanding of the wider world. The nursery arranges thoughtful and fun events for parents and children to enjoy together. My son has great fun at nursery and comes home happy and exhausted every time he goes.

The nursery has a nice space and is well equipped for the number of children that it caters for. It benefits from a small soft play area. Meals are cooked on site and allergies are catered for.

My child is happy to come to nursery and enjoys her relationship with her peers.

The staff know her well and they share progress updates daily in a short verbal exchange and more formal reviews regularly.

A really lovely and stable team who look after our son very well. Really appreciate the speed of response and the dedication to trying new things! Thanks.

What most impresses me about the nursery is the staff's commitment to a positive attitude and making an effort every day to provide structured learning opportunities and mixed activities and keeping a smile on their face regardless. Their cheerful hellos and warm goodbyes are consistently delivered and even perk up the grown-ups. They work very hard, thanks to them. Good outside space and range of facilities.

The staff here are very kind and supportive to our son. He has been going for around four years now and loves it. From baby room to toddlers and now pre-school I can say that my wife and I have been pleased with the approach taken by the nursery to provide a fun learning environment. One downside is the fact that after the baby room, the toddler room is too small really - but they are in the pre-school room a lot of the time which helps. Food has always been good and healthy, staff turnover low - we still see his keyworker from the baby room all the time even now he is in pre school. Hard to criticise the place really.

The environment is clean and tidy, space maximised and teachers are warm and welcoming. It also has equality and diversity both on staff and pupils. It’s well secured.

My 2 kids go to this nursery. I took 1 out and moved him to a private daycare feeder school to an expensive school in Dulwich. That was twice the price and after a week of observation, I pulled my son out and returned him to New Cross Community Nursery. The food and standard of care was 100 times better at new Cross Community Nursery and it was worth losing £3000 to move him back here where he was happy and there is no pretence behind a glossy brochure. Shout out to the deputy leader who honestly is the most awesome leader who knows a lot about my child’s personality and writes me great reports that a busy lawyer has little time to have to download verbally. I have nothing but praise for this amazing nursery and I am proud my kids were part of the growth of this place. The nursery teacher and her discipline is awesome, I wish she could just live with us, and the deputy leader needs to run a series of these centres. Never met anyone I would trust with my kids' development more than this person.

Great friendly and warm staff and I’ve had no complaints from my 4-year-old! Loves going to nursery as there a variety of things for him to do.

Staff seem to be diligent and professional in carrying out activities as it relates to the kids, which is encouraging to see as a parent.

The staff are amazing and you can see how much they genuinely love the kids. Also the development and activities are great.

The staff at LEYF Awersham Vale are experienced. Since the day we began they have been like family to our daughter who adores the nursery and all the opportunities for fun and learning it provides her.

Our daughter has been nurtured and has become very sociable as a result of the attention and care she has received.

Very welcoming nursery. Friendly staff who relate and care for my son. Staff discount for children attending nursery. Plenty of food and fun activities for the children.

Thanks very much!

My son absolutely loves going to nursery. He really enjoys all of the activities, toys and learning opportunities that we might be hard-pressed to give him in such quantity and diversity at home. I am impressed by the warm, friendly nature of the staff and how they give a great deal of attention to all the children. They also make a lot of effort to work with you on your child's development and are even a great source of advice for new parents.

Separately, I would like to note that the resources/equipment/ict rating does not offer the option to choose "I don't know." If that option was available, that is what I would have selected.

I would definitely recommend New Cross to other parents as I am totally confident they will have a pleasurable experience as we have.

The team have been brilliant with our daughter, who had a tricky start and struggled to adjust to being away from mum and dad at first. They were very supportive and really have genuinely enjoyed watching her progress as she started to get used to being there 3 days a week. She loves her food, so really enjoys the fresh food they give her and loves the toys and activities they plan. She has grown in confidence so much over the past few months and we definitely think LEYF have played a huge part in that. The staff have been great, and the review after a few months really helped us get a great picture of her development and where we can help. She loves it there now and has lots of fun so we can relax knowing she is happy and being looked after.

The team is great and have been like a second family. My daughter has been there for over 2 years and has thoroughly enjoyed her time at LEYF New Cross.

New Cross Community Nursery is our child's second nursery and the improvement from the previous one is huge. The building is spacious, the grounds are vast (and could be even bigger in time). The staff are not as subject to change as at our previous nursery and this is good for our daughter because she has at least 3 who she has known for over a year. She eats a great variety of food here.