1st Place at Lorrimore Square

Our daughter has attended 1st Place at Lorrimore Square for almost 2 years now and we are extremely happy to have made this choice. The large space and facilities are great but the one thing that makes the biggest difference (and in my opinion makes this nursery an excellent place to send our child) is the quality and dedication of the staff. They are clearly knowledgeable, enthusiastic, attentive and caring. This is not only evidenced by our interactions with them but also the variety of activities they do with the children (trips, playtime etc). My conversations with other parents confirm this view. When both of us started to work full time we were a bit concerned about sending our daughter to nursery 50 hours per week – this concern quickly went away as she clearly loves it there!

My daughter has been at this nursery since April 2019 and I cannot recommend it highly enough. She absolutely loves her days there and I feel she has really grown in confidence and developed great social skills since starting. The staff are warm and friendly and have developed a great relationship with my daughter. I always feel happy and confident leaving her there that she will have a great day doing all sorts of messy play, with lots of outdoor time etc. She also really enjoys the food they provide and has become a much less fussy eater since starting here, enjoying meals like fish, curry and lamb stew with vegetables. The staff are very easy to communicate with and always make an effort to let me know how my daughter’s day has been when I pick her up.

This is a fantastic nursery. Our daughter has been here since 2017 and we are SO pleased with the service. They provide a safe, supportive and stimulating environment. The staff are professional, skilled and fun. They take the children on trips and regularly visit local libraries etc. The food is healthy and well made. The staff turnover is low and all the staff have a great relationship with my child. I can not recommend this place enough.

Not happy with our child here but we have no other option. They don’t do any of the Early Years Foundation Stage, that is recommended by the government. Specifically, they do nothing on literacy nor mathematics/numeracy. Staff are regularly late, therefore, making me late for things. I’ve had to complain formally about this on 2 occasions. I’m on first-name terms with the manager. Security is lapse, there is a concrete playground out the back where all the kids play, this is easily accessible by anyone and leads to the main inside area which is regularly unlocked. Kids play climbing up ladders unattended above the concrete playground. They also have a blossom app but it’s rubbish and I never use it. It normally tells me my child arrived then left. The nursery always has a faint smell of wee. The only good thing is the Forest School. But staff are often late and it’s far from the nursery itself. So few kids go.

All the staff are extremely friendly to parents and caring and kind to the kids. I have never worried about leaving my child at nursery. The staff are very understanding and supportive when kids go through difficult phases (biting in our case) and come up with ideas and solutions to overcome the issues. The move up to the bigger kids room helped a lot to improve the situation.

The staff at 1st Place Lorrimore Square have been amazing. Not only are they extremely kind, supportive, and nurturing, but they’re also very engaged with our daughter and helping encourage her development in reading, writing, and counting. The Lorrimore Square team also ensures there’s great communication back and forth with the parents, via daily updates with the app, quarterly parents meetings, and whenever my wife pick-up/drop-off our child there’s always a little bit of chat re: what they’ve been doing and how our daughter’s been. We are extremely lucky to have our daughter at such a fantastic nursery; we would recommend Lorrimore Square in a heartbeat!

My four-year-old son and one-year-old daughter love Lorrimore Square Nursery.
The staff, children and parents make are a very kind caring community. We love the location – away from busy polluted roads, good space to run around and stay fit and a little park nearby in warmer weather is full of parents and children enjoying getting to know each other and looking after each other.
The nursery uses the Italian Reggio Emilia approach of learning philosophy which involves child-directed exploring through areas of interest for the child – this involves a commitment from parents to share what their children are interested in at home so the staff can explore this with the child and make links to other discoveries and interests.
The nursery manager is extremely passionate about Forest School, attentive to the children’s needs and observant.
We really trust and value the staff and appreciate the dedication of the team to forest school and genuinely caring for our children.

The nursery and the staff are amazing. I see a great improvement in my child’s speaking and interactions with people and kids and play. I love that there is art incorporated with everyday life objects and overall the safety of how they conduct themselves and the different rooms with dealing with Covid-19.

The only issue I have currently is getting to the nursery as Highways have closed off the road to buses and cyclists only even though it’s a very large road and it adds 24 minutes go and back every day to dropping off my child. It makes it very inconvenient for parents travelling from Elephant and Castle, Borough and London Bridge.

My daughter started at 1st Place Lorrimore Square in August 2020, she was just six months. We have seen what a difference attending nursery made to her development. She progressed so quickly and is very curious about the world around her and is a very sociable baby. She is always very busy during the day, does lots of different activities, explores, eats all the food presented to her. I feel the staff at Lorrimore really care about the children, the report we get at the end of each day is great, the pictures they upload give us a great idea of the variety of activities they are doing with the children. If they have concerns, they will call. They always have time for the parents as well which I think is very important. I am very satisfied. I leave my daughter in the morning knowing she is in safe hands, with people who genuinely care about her. I highly recommend this nursery.

We really love 1st Place. Our daughter started in January 2022 and the staff have been beyond great. The food they get is healthy and they have a wonderful learning environment. She is always happy to go in and we are always relaxed knowing she is being well taken care of.