Bright Horizons Elsie Inglis Early Learning and Childcare

Very supportive staff when required, led by parents and not always initiated by nursery staff.
Our child enjoys good relationships with the staff and his peers.
Disappointed and concerned many long-serving regular staff are leaving in a short period of time.

This is a fantastic nursery which forms good relationships with the children and families all the staff are friendly and kind. There are lots of things for the children in all the rooms and the garden is a great space that the children can get out to play safely.

We love this nursery and our daughter (just over 2 years old) does too. It’s very well organised and we are kept regularly updated (throughout the day) on what she’s had for breakfast/lunch/afternoon snack via the app. We also receive updates (with photos) about how she’s progressing. She has lots of fun playing inside as well as outside and we love receiving photos of her involved in messy play.

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

A fantastic nursery! Our daughter is very happy at Elsie’s. Staff and managers create a stimulating and caring learning environment for children. We’re really pleased with the range of activities that she is involved in each week.

I have two children who have been attending Elsie for a while now. 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 staff go above and beyond to make sure the children have a good experience. There have been lots of excellent, experienced new staff hired recently, but even the staff 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 staff who have been taking part in extra training. I’m always impressed with the quality of the learning and resources and the food sounds really nice too! I’m especially touched by how patient and sensitive the staff are with my older child, who is neurodivergent. It’s amazing to see how happy and comfortable he has become in the nursery setting, all thanks to the lovely staff who have gained his trust.

Our child has been attending this nursery for three years. We’ve overall had a good experience, with a couple of rough patches. Midway through our time at the nursery there’s been a change in management and things have been improving ever since.
Many of the staff members are very caring and support the children’s learning. Everyone knows all the children and there’s a shared sense of care. There is, however, substantial staff turnover, which can be difficult for the children.
Meals are prepared on-site and our child certainly seems to enjoy them. The equipment in the nursery is varied and in excellent 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 child’s development is posted.

We have 2 children in this nursery and they are both doing really well and enjoying their time there. I specifically love open communication from the staff as well as a diverse range of activities offered.
Preschool room has introduced our 4 year old to nature walks, many arts and crafts projects that I would hesitate to take on at home, yoga, gardening, playing a guitar, baking, etc. I feel that our son is cared for and am never hesitant to send him to nursery.
Babies room staff is absolutely lovely and extremely competent. We had issues with our little one refusing his bottle when he started (because he was used to mama giving it to him). The staff went above and beyond to make sure he’s fed – with up to 5 people trying to feed him in the beginning.
This nursery is a fair way away from our home and we were offered a place in a different nursery 5 minutes away from our house. However, having experienced the staff in our current nursery – we chose a longer commute over convenience.

Our son has been going to Elsie for just over a year (started at 12 months old). They are wonderfully gentle and supportive. He has just moved rooms again and is finding this transition difficult, but the staff are very kind and are really making lots of effort to reassure him (and us!) that it’s going to be ok. Ethos of the whole place feels right and the management team have clearly made huge improvements in the last year.

Our son has had a great experience within the toddler room at Bright Horizons, Elsie Inglis. At the start of the year, he transferred from another nursery where he was happily settled but which closed quite quickly. The staff at Elsie’s have been superb in helping him become settled in the new environment there. The staff in his room and the other staff across the building all appear to be very skilled and genuinely passionate about caring for the children, and the communication about what is happening each day is really good. Within the nursery the facilities both inside and outside are good and the range of activities that the children get offered daily is great and suits the different interests of the kids. There have been really nice additional features like themes of the week/month, lots of chances to enjoy live music played by the staff, and the chance for the children to go on local outings. We have been really happy to send our child to this nursery.