This is an excellent preschool my daughter absolutely loves going and it has done her wonders. She has learnt so much and has made lots of little friends. All staff are very friendly and personal. They know so much about all the kids and keep you updated regularly. Recent Nativity was fantastic and my husband and I thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.

I would not hesitate recommending this setting and would like to thank all the staff for all they do for my daughter.

I write this feeling quite emotional, as I reminisce about how far my son, Arjan, has come in his development whilst at Nelmes Pre-School. He started as a quiet timid toddler and has ended up leaving in July 2017 as a confident, independent thinking, sarcastic young boy.

He regularly still speaks fondly of the Aunties, saying things like they are “cute” and he “misses them”, he’s not alone in the latter, I found them to be extremely comforting towards me in my transition of having Arjan at home with me full time to attending nursery. During the year he also on most nights needed to see their faces, so Id have to open up the website on my phone and let him see them, only then could he sleep. This to me is a massive indicator of how loving and comforting they are to the children.

A special thank you to Aunty Michelle, whom without her, Arjan would probably still be wearing nappies! She gave me the confidence to toilet train Arjan and trust my instincts with him, she showed me that as parents, we have the answers already and don’t need to ‘google’ everything.

All the Aunties, spend equal time with the children and assist them in all areas of EYFS. Arjan had learnt all of his phonics, counting, as well as pencil grip/writing to name but a few areas. He is definitely ready for school next week. This is all that you ever want from a nursery, to prepare your child for the next stage in his/her life. However, I feel the aunties take it one step further, the creative ways the Aunties introduce academic subjects to the children mean that they learn better and will retain what they learn.

Nelmes also does not stand for bullying or any of the children being unhappy, Arjan was being hit by one of the children. The same day I raised it with the Aunties, I was told by Arjan that he and the boy are now friends and he doesn’t hit him anymore. This was comforting to me, because it showed that they want a safe happy environment for every child, and were extremely concerned that Arjan was feeling dejected.

Throughout the year, parents are invited to join in with watching their children, during events such as Nativity, Easter Concert, Sports Day and Graduation ceremony. All of the Aunties work so hard with the children to ensure that the parents have these memories of their little ones firsts. I’ll never forget my Arjan playing King Herod in the Nativity.

I’m now looking forward to sending my second child to Nelmes in a couple of years time. I would not trust anybody else with my children, the way I trust the Cheryl and her team; thank you all for looking after Arjan.

Jay (Arjan’s Mom)

We are lucky residents of this country where so many happy events are organised in a calendar year by several organisations and communities. Despite people have different religions and faiths of their own, it is really a great pleasure to observe that we all celebrate each one like our own. The Nelmes pre-school under your care and consideration is no exception and we are ever so delighted to witness the way pupils enjoyed the Easter Concert.

It is rather a selfish observation to quote, nonetheless we witness our child’s participation in the play and are so pleased to express our happiness towards the teachers’ contributions and kind efforts in achieving such extraordinary results. Needless to say, it was not possible for pupils at this early age to accomplish the way they did without kindness and dedicated efforts of the teachers. Although it was pupils’ show, the teachers qualify for full credit for everything the pupils had finished. Moreover, it was rather unique point to notice that each child had an opportunity to perform equally and everyone so had equal share of enjoyments and happiness. This kind of personal attention at this early age to pupils would stay in their mind like a tattoo, we believe. Our personal honest opinion is that we find it is so difficult and challenging to train our own child during the day; we do not understand how the school could manage to train so may pupils during a short period and particularly within limitations of time and mood of pupils. We therefore would like to convey our sincere thanks and appreciation for everything the school has been doing for pupils.

We would also like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the way pupils are welcomed at the school every day and they are being treated ever so humanly. They are small kids and they have different way of expressing their feelings and aptitude, nevertheless particularly our son talks about teachers at home is rather a reflexion of good time he is having at the school.

We would like to stop on a pleasant note that we feel proud and privileged that our son, Adityaraj had an opportunity to attend your wealthy school.

Grace has been attending this nursery since last September, the staff are amazing, friendly and extremely professional, Grace loves coming to nursery and always enjoys herself, her personal development has excelled with great communication skills and learning lots of new things. The Easter concert was a delight to watch ! The children obviously enjoyed themselves as well as the staff Ii would highly recommend this nursery it has met all my expectations and more keep up the good work girls and thank you very much.
Natasha

Our daughter, Isabel, looks forward to her sessions at Nelmes and always enjoys her days in the pre-school. The fact that she enjoys the school environment is so important to us, but the staff have also paid attention to her literacy and writing skills. We are so pleased that she has developed these attributes too and feel she will be more than ready for infant school as a result. Lastly, there is a strong sense of fun at Nelmes and the Christmas and Easter shows and Sports Days have been fantastic too. Great work Nelmes. Thank you for your efforts with our daughter and all the other children in your care.

Thank you so much for a tremendous nativity play. So well organised and amazing to see such Young children perform so well. It was brilliant

My daughter is in her second year at Nelmes Pre School and has come on leaps and bounds since joining. Since being at the school she has built some lovely friendships, learned excellent social skills, is more confident, has bonded with the staff and looks forward to her days here (runs in with a hop skip and a jump). The staff really champion the kids here, it’s not just all about playtime but lots of learning through play too. My daughter likes to surprise me with interesting things she has learned, some of which I didn’t know myself. I have seen how invested the staff are in the children. I will be confidently sending my other daughter here when she is old enough too. Thank you all for the great job that you do 🙂

Amelie thoroughly enjoys her time at pre-school, she has a sense of excitement on the days she attends which is great for us as parents. I would like to highlight how much Amelie learned during the recent Minibeast project ; she has been quizzing friends and family about Bees and Snails etc on a daily basis and sharing her knowledge!

This term Amelie has taken to learning phonics with ease and loves bringing home books to practice phonics/reading and writing. We feel she will have a real head start when starting school in September. We are overwhelmed by Amelie’s progress this Term!

We can’t thank all the Aunties enough for how much you do with the children, it has totally exceeded our expectations.

We look forward to our youngest daughter attending Nelmes Pre-school in the not too distant future!

My daughter has been attending NPS for a few months now where she has settled in so well and discovered new and exciting aunties and friends. Her confidence has grown, she has a wider vocabulary and she loves all activities and new learning experiences. We are both looking forward to the new year at NPS.

My daughter thoroughly enjoys going to pre school and really loves all the activities the Aunties do with them. She is also very excited about getting homework to do like her big brothers and loves to practise writing her name and reading her book from school. x