The Childcare Hub

Critical: Professionalism, Quality
Feb 2nd, 2022

Positive: Professionalism, Quality
Jun 6th, 2020

Apr 11th, 2020

We love it here! Our boy has been coming here for a year now, starting in the baby room and then pre-toddler. Shortly moving up to the Toddler room. We booked his place when the Hub was just a shell because we felt so confident in the staff who greeted us and showed us around. They haven't disappointed us at all. Our toddler was a very clingy baby who spent a lot of time in his carrier attached to me and who needed to be held a lot and couldn't get to sleep easily without being breastfed to sleep. His carers understood this and paid lots of attention to him, and gradually and gently helped him to adjust. He learns so much there, his speech has flourished since joining the pre-toddler room. He is a really energetic boy who LOVES to take risks with climbing and jumping around etc. So the fact that he can walk in and out as he pleases is perfect. There is so much for him to do in the garden. Their approach is truly child led. There is structure around certain things like meals etc and rules around safety of course, but they mostly observe what the child is interested in and adapt their teaching to suit. They have animals, they grow food, as the children get older they have more and more adventurous outside space to explore including Forest school, climbing wall, roof garden. It's a really exciting place with wonderful staff. I'm so glad he gets the opportunity to be there so often. The carers are all so invested in what they do, and they are willing and able to spend time with parents explaining and demonstrating things that you might not know if you don't work with children. I also love how they constantly review their methods, small things like altering snack time to a rolling activity so that they don't have to interrupt important play that might be happening, or bigger things like changing the way they give feedback which they've recently altered in order to spend far more 1-2-1 time with each child. When we were looking at other nurseries it really stood out that there was always someone making notes or tapping away on an ipad instead of engaging with the children. And one last thing. The food is delicious! I could go on forever, but suffice to say, its a really great nursery :-)
Apr 1st, 2019

We have visited many nurseries in Milton Keynes before deciding on the childcare hub and in terms of facilities it has to be one of the best if not the best place in MK. In terms of care and love that my daughter gets, we are forever grateful to the wonderful people with special thanks going to Alesia & Lindsey & Jemma who were awesome when my daughter was with the under 3s. And again we are forever grateful to the upstairs team, especially to Elena & Monique who do a great job managing the whole place, Rachel & Paula who my daughter loves so much and every other hero I forgot to mention. It really is not an easy job looking after 3-4 year olds but I can really feel a sense of organised fun and proper care when I drop off or pick up my daughter. In terms of education, the forest school is a fantastic idea and kids are given many activities during the day. I feel my daughter is well prepared for year 1 and a lot of that is thanks to the hardworking people of the childcare hub. My only small complaint would be the fingerprint entry system which doesnt work sometimes but thats a small price to pay for knowing that my kid is in a safe place.
Mar 9th, 2019