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Extremely highly regarded children’s day nursery in Bishop’s Stortford
Sycamore House Day Nursery occupies a prime location on the main road from the west of town into Bishop’s Stortford, in close proximity to the Town Centre, Railway Station, and Bishop’s Stortford College. It has its own car park making dropping off and collecting children easy, quick and safe.

Sycamore House Day Nursery is situated in a spacious, detached, period property. The building has lots of character and charm that we feel offers a great experience from the moment you first arrive with us.

Creative and natural indoor environment

Our indoor nursery environment is bright and bathed in natural light from the huge sash windows. Our age-specific rooms are all large yet cosy and packed with natural resources for our children to explore and interact with. Our furniture is all in keeping with our natural styling and is mostly high-quality nursery-specific beechwood. We have one feature piece in each room which uses real-life items in unusual and creative ways, such as some shelving we’ve fashioned out of gorgeous wooden crates. By doing this, we help to stimulate the children’s minds by removing typical boundaries of the physical world and helping them understand the power of imagination and lateral or creative thinking. This wonderfully demonstrates how deeply we’ve entrenched The Curiosity Approach into every element of our childcare – we never stop devising new and imaginative ways to bring the real, natural world into everyday life, play and learning for our children, fostering curiosity at every opportunity.

Lovely outdoor space

Sycamore House benefits from a well-utilised outdoor space. We have an extensive mud kitchen, flowers and plants, including pots for the children to grow their own vegetables in. It is beautifully designed and a space that is calming yet fun, and helps connect the children to living nature by ensuring it is at their fingertips each day.

OFSTED have rated our day nursery in Bishop’s Stortford as “Good”.

Sycamore House Day Nursery caters for children aged from 3 months to 4 years old.

What Our Parents Say

Very talented and caring staff. My son really loved this nursery. He learnt a lot in all aspects from communication, relationship building, being independent, to learning maths, shapes, letters, word, sentences etc. Really pleased with the development. Thanks to all the lovely staff, you are all the best.

Vaibhav H (Father of Child)

My daughter has been in the nursery since the Baby Room. It has been an incredible journey. Now she is in the pre-school and every day she is excited to go to the nursery. She loves the staff, her key worker, the other kids, the setting (especially the garden). She really enjoys all the activities organised through the week/day. She enjoys and has fun while learning. The staff encourage and support multilingual families making the kids feel proud they can speak more than one language. Now the staff are also getting her ready to go to school this September. The staff have always been amazing, very approachable, flexible and caring.

B C (Father of Child)

The staff are so kind and caring, they all know my daughter even those in different rooms. She skips in to see them every day and they are as excited as me when she does new things. It's a home away from home.

H G (Mother of Child)

I can't thank the staff enough for giving me peace of mind when my child is with them. The number and variety of activities each day is amazing and the fact they manage to get in the garden or go on trips - even in winter is fantastic. My child's development is streets ahead of his peers who don't attend nursery.

S H (Mother of Child)

The nursery has a lovely nurturing and vibrant atmosphere which my son loves. There is plenty of space for him to explore and learn via the vast range of toys and equipment they have. I know he is well cared for. I am always well informed and I work together with the nursery staff to give my son the best possible experience.

Claire F (Mother of Child)

The care, consideration and attention my son receives is exemplary. Staff pay attention to his strengths and weaknesses and verbalise them to us and ideas for developing them are implemented. All staff demonstrate an excellent attitude and have excellent relationships with their designated children.

A D (Father of Child)

The staff were warm, caring and professional and the facilities are great. We felt like our daughter was part of a big family. We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to all working there.

E S (Mother of Child)

I have been impressed by the level of care given to my son since he started. The daily warm welcome of the staff makes both children and parents alike feel at ease. Seeing the smile on my boy's face as we drive into the car park is proof enough for me that the team are doing something right.

Alexander M (Father of Child)

My little girl has recently started and is absolutely loving her time at nursery. The settling in sessions were brilliant and really helped put my mind at ease, especially with me starting back at work. The ladies in the Baby Room are super friendly and enthusiastic and I can't thank them enough for their support in what could have been quite an emotional rollercoaster.

G W (Mother of Child)

Once I drop my son off into the Baby Room, I feel he's as safe and as well looked after as I do at home.

Laura R (Mother of Child)