Our Nursery

Here at Dunblane Nature Kindergarten we offer quality Childcare and Early Education for children from birth to 5 years of age. We also offer Out of School Care, including a Holiday Club, for children from 5 - 11 years of age. 

With a focus on outdoor learning our nursery is perfectly located; surrounded by woodland areas, forests and rivers. Find us here.

Playrooms within our nursery are generously proportioned, carefully planned and extensively resourced to create inspiring learning environments in which children can grow and learn with confidence. We pride ourselves on offering children a wide range of activities and all of our children have access to outdoor play areas offering the opportunity for regular outdoor learning experiences across all areas of the curriculum.

Our nursery has been an established and respected Centre for Early Year's Care in Dunblane for over a decade and has developed a strong reputation for delivering quality and meeting the needs of individual children and their families. 

We accept all childcare vouchers and offer 3-5 year old funding. Our spaces can fill up fast so we do recommend you enquire as early as possible to ensure you get the sessions and start date you require. 

To get a real feel for our nursery, we highly recommend coming to see our nursery for yourself! Our nursery manager would be delighted to give you a guided tour, introduce you to the staff and answer any questions you may have. If you would be interested in arranging a viewing, simply call us on 01786 821 950 or complete our book a viewing form to confirm your viewing. 

Our Nursery Team

Our Nursery Manager, Linda Boon, has over 10 years of experience working in childcare. Linda ensures that her parents feel relaxed and confident in the knowledge that their child is being cared for by our dedicated staff team in a safe environment. 

Deputy Manager - Linda Boon

Nursery Manager - Linda Boon

 

“Great management with motivated staff. They also go beyond expectations to put on parent /children open evenings/events - such as the Xmas party and campfire night.” – D.K, Day Nurseries Review

“My three year old has been attending for 1.5 years now and has positively flourished as a direct result. Her speech, cognition, reasoning are excellent - all fantastic foundational skills. The staff are very caring, skilled, loving and are all absolutely excellent. My older child also goes to after school and she loves it just as much as her little sister. I honestly cannot praise the staff enough - best nursery in Scotland as far as I am concerned!” -Veronica, Day Nurseries Review

“Very happy with our two wee boys at Dunblane Nature Kindergarten. They seem to really love it. The staff are great, they all work really hard to form bonds with the kids.” – Sally, Day Nurseries Review

Multiple Award Winning Nursery

We are thrilled to hold a number of awards and accreditations including; Green Flag Eco School Status, Silver Certification for Green Trees School, Nursery World Award Winner, NMT Nursery Team of the Year 2015, NMT Nursery Group of the Year 2018, Day Nurseries Top 20 Nursery Group for 2020 and Investors In Young People Gold Practice Award.

Dunblane Nature Kindergarten Social Proof

Dear families,

We are pleased to share with you our exciting plans for the future of our nurseries. Bertram Nursery Group has provided a trusted, caring and quality service to thousands of families over two decades.  That isn’t changing, but we want to grow and develop our services, facilities and, most of all, our teams who make our nurseries and kindergartens such inspiring places for children.

That’s why we’re changing our name to Thrive Childcare and Education, because that’s at the heart of what we’re about – helping our children, staff and communities to thrive.

While changing our company name and the names of some of our nurseries is the next step of our development journey, we’ll still have the same dedicated teams caring for your children.

The Covid-19 pandemic has reinforced our belief that we need to adapt and invest in a constantly changing world to continue providing the service that parents and children need, tailored to the communities we support across Scotland and North West England.

Since our foundation, we have acquired some fantastic groups of nurseries and many high-quality independent nurseries. Now we are uniting them under four Thrive groupings:

  • Happitots nurseries will extend beyond Glasgow and South Lanarkshire to provide a network of affordable, flexible nurseries across Scotland.
  • Holyrood nurseries will extend more widely across our network of affordable nurseries in North West England, recognising parents’ and community needs.
  • Corner House nurseries will now extend from Edinburgh to operate more widely across Scotland, providing an extensive range of exciting, extracurricular activities and large outdoor areas.
  • Nature Kindergartens, our new sub-group, will reflect our vision to develop children’s outdoor learning. We plan to expand our Nature Kindergartens network in Scotland and England because we believe children’s learning is greatly enhanced in natural spaces.

 

Click here to visit Thrive Childcare and Education Website