Bright Horizons Elsie Inglis Early Learning and Childcare

Very supportive team when required, led by parents and not consistently initiated by childcare centre team.
Our kid enjoys great relationships with the team and his peers.
Disappointed and concerned many long-serving regular team are leaving in a short period of time.

We have been using the childcare centre for over 4 years, and our kids have been through every age group. The team are very lovely and put a lot of effort into creating enjoyable activities and the indoor and outdoor spaces are regularly refreshed with new and different activities and themes. They also consistently come home very well-fed! The relatively new management team have been doing a excellent job getting back to normality after Covid too. I’m really cheerful to be sending my kids to this childcare centre, and they really delight in spending time there playing and making friends.

There are lots of things for the kids in all the rooms and the garden is a excellent space that the kids can get out to playtime safely. This is a remarkable childcare centre which forms great relationships with the kids and families all the team are welcoming and compassionate.

She enjoys every day with the team, the chef and all her little friends.
Lots of outside playtime, lots of different activities every day to keep everyone constantly entertained. The team are consistently welcoming and available for a chat about how the kid is getting on, verbal feedback is given every day at pick-up time. Would highly suggest. Our kid has been with the childcare centre for over two years now and has been well looked after by the team in the baby room, the toddler room, the 2’s room and now the preschool room.

My son has been attending since he was 9 months old and there has not been a single day when he didn’t want to go to the childcare centre. All due to outstanding and attentive team and varied level of activities for each kid. Also, my son has allergies and yet all nutrition has consistently been individually selected, locally cooked and provided to my son. Thank you for being with us all this time! I cannot suggest Elsie Inglis Nursery highly enough.

They have advice and feedback on a daily basis, and even in a pandemic, have loads of time for me and my kid.
He particularly likes “arting” and the imaginative playtime. The rapport he has with his teacher is lovely to see. He insisted on giving her a diamond ring from his treasure box. High praise indeed. The team at Elsie’s are just exceptional.

We’ve overall had a great journey, with a couple of rough patches. Midway through our time at the childcare centre there’s been a change in management and things have been improving ever since.
Many of the team members are very attentive and assistance the kids’s discovering. Everyone knows all the kids and there’s a shared sense of care. There is, however, substantial team turnover, which can be difficult for the kids.
Meals are prepared on-site and our kid certainly seems to delight in them. The equipment in the childcare centre is varied and in outstanding condition. Children are offered changing themes and well-planned activities each week. More outdoor space would be nice, but they are making the most of what they have. A full-time place is expensive, but not more so than at comparable nurseries in Edinburgh. There’s an app to interact with the team and where info about the activities and kid’s development is posted. Our kid has been attending this childcare centre for three years.

The team are welcoming, supportive and expert and the management is really great.
My son has a excellent time there. He does a lot of activities including painting, music, dancing, outdoor walks etc.
I am grateful that we found such a lovely place for the early years of my kid and I suggest it to all parents. I am very cheerful with my son’s childcare centre.

Especially with the new management. I sense it is definitely more welcoming than before. We have had two open days which are excellent to see what is happening, speak to the team employed there and even bond slightly better with your kid as this is not just a place to drop off. I can sometimes come and stay and playtime with you. The team are really nice and I sense my kids are in great hands. Now my son is in twos and I cannot say how cheerful I have been for all the rooms he has been in so far, from baby room to toddler and now in 2s. My daughter has left childcare centre as she now is in primary school. The last room is the preschool room where I felt the engagement dropped compared to the other rooms. She would come home and ask me to learn something which no longer happens now that she is in school. The educators themselves are incredible, however, due to the kid ratio and the chores I found that the activities for 3-5s are less compared to the previous rooms. A excellent childcare centre overall.

Since the new management came in about a year ago, things have only been improving. I am blown away daily by how well-run everything is and how much the team go above and beyond to make sure the kids have a great journey. There have been lots of outstanding, experienced new team hired recently, but even the team who have been there a while seem more confident and capable than before, which is a real testament to the efforts of the new management and all the team who have been taking part in extra training. I’m consistently impressed with the quality of the discovering and resources and the food sounds really nice too! I’m especially touched by how patient and sensitive the team are with my older kid, who is neurodivergent. It’s incredible to see how cheerful and comfortable he has become in the childcare centre setting, all thanks to the lovely team who have gained his trust. I have two kids who have been attending Elsie for a while now.