The Orange Tree Day Nursery @ Stoke

Wonderful. I cannot think of any better place for my daughter as she grows and learns. The staff are excellent and as attentive as you would wish. The activities all seem geared towards fun and learning in equal measure and the enthusiasm they show and impart is ideal.

My daughter always has a fantastic time at The Orange Tree Day Nursery. She has progressed so much in a short space of time. I commend the ladies for doing a fantastic job for my daughter. I would highly recommend this nursery. It is educational, and clean and they provide amazing food for my child and everyone is super friendly.

A genuinely lovely nursery with care at the heart of the provision. Their outdoor space is great and all children have a balance of experiences both indoors and outdoors. The nursery have always been responsive to any of our questions or expectations and the staff are warm and focused on the best for our daughter and other children.

I want to thank the Orange Tree for everything that they have done for my son in the past 2 years. He has developed into such a clever and lovely little boy and his nursery deserves a lot of credit for that. Nothing is too much trouble and the nursery nurses do everything they can to support his development and wellbeing. He loves going to nursery and seeing everybody and the staff know him so well. There are so many amazing staff and he doesn’t stop talking about them. We feel so grateful to have nursery staff who love our son like we do. Thank you, especially to the caterpillar room.

My little boy has been at The Orange Tree Day Nursery @ Stoke since he was a few months old. There have been a lot of changes in that time but he has been so well cared for during his time there. He has been taught excellent manners and has been helped and encouraged to grow and develop in such creative ways. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend The Orange Tree Day Nursery, I am so grateful for all that they have done for us.

We love the nursery. Our daughter has been going since 2019 all through the pandemic. The staff are so supportive and loving. They care so much about the development and happiness of every child. All of the children there are happy and make great connections with the other children. It has been a constant in our lives through the pandemic and never let us down. Our daughter has flourished there and surprises us daily with her new skills.

Our little girl has been attending here for almost 11months now and has excelled so much in her social and personal development. She really enjoys her days with the team in Blossoms and always comes home smiling. We always get a full update of what she has been doing each day as well as a diary of what she has eaten, when she has napped and how many nappy changes there have been. The time that is spent here is invaluable as it gives her much more than we could give at home both in learning and interaction with other children. Although most of the meals are healthy and nutritious, there are, on occasions, meals that are a little less healthy but that doesn’t worry us as we make up for it with a healthier meal at home. I don’t know what we would have done without the team at The Orange Tree, thank you.

My daughter has been attending for a year now and has really come on since then. It is amazing to see her development and a lot of that is due to the learning and support provided by The Orange Tree Nursery. Few areas for improvement- the online portal seems to be delayed in sharing updates on the child’s progress or photo log, as sometimes don’t get the updates through until a day or two later. It would be good to get these on a more consistent basis as I like to know how she is getting on in the day. Staff are lovely, however, the handover of key workers between rooms when my daughter transitioned I felt could have been better if I had been personally introduced to her new key workers prior to the move. I felt I had a good relationship with the previous key workers and would like that to be replicated throughout each transition to different rooms. Overall really pleased with the nursery.

It would have been very helpful if the nursery offered a settle in week instead of just 2 sessions for 1 hour or even advised me to book half days initially until my little one settled. I had to collect him earlier than planned for the first 2 weeks as he was unsettled and they were unable to cope with him, which was really frustrating and caused me a lot of anxiety. Later on, after he settled, he was a very happy child and enjoyed going there. He might go there again, as he overcame the settling phase. The nursery itself is very clean, follow strict no shoes policy in babies room, which is fab. They also do lots of activities in fresh air.

All the staff at The Orange Tree are doing an amazing job looking after our child. They engage in activities each day and are committed to delivering a developmental plan for each child. We feel safe and happy knowing that our child is in such good hands when we drop him off each day.