Happy Days Nursery & Preschool - Cheswick Village

Unit 9, The Square, Longdown Avenue, Stoke Gifford, Bristol BS16 1GU
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9.9 84 Reviews
  • Happy Days Nursery & Preschool - Cheswick Village, Bristol
Happy Days Nursery - Cheswick Village is a purpose-built nursery located next to Wallscourt Farm Academy and within the retail and residential complex of Cheswick Village.

The safe and warm nursery environment allows children to develop and play, surrounded by caring experienced staff who are attentive and fully focused on each child's individual needs and routines.

The age-appropriate Explorer and Adventurer rooms allow free flow access to the spacious outside areas, which provide endless scope for children to create and build their own miniature worlds and environments.

The on-site chef provides fresh and nutritious meals to support the healthy growth and development of each child. The children can also be involved in food preparation and learn how to be independent at mealtimes. Special diets can be catered for.

Care Provided by Happy Days Nursery & Preschool - Cheswick Village

  • Type of Service
  • Day Nursery – Privately Owned
  • Open all year
  • Full Day Care
  • Sessional Day Care

Good to Know

  • Person in charge
  • Lily Lovegrove (Nursery Manager)
  • Number of Childcare Staff
  • 30
  • Total Places for Children
  • 82
  • Age Range
    • from 0 years 3 months
    • to 5 years 0 months
  • Opening Times
  • Monday 07:00-18:00
    Tuesday 07:00-18:00
    Wednesday 07:00-18:00
    Thursday 07:00-18:00
    Friday 07:00-18:00
  • When Closed
  • Bank Holidays & Christmas

Funding & Fees Guide for Happy Days Nursery & Preschool - Cheswick Village

  • For fee information, contact the Nursery directly.


Happy Days Nursery & Preschool - Cheswick Village Reviews (84)

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Happy Days Nursery & Preschool - Cheswick Village has a Review Score of 9.9 (9.881) out of 10, based on 31 reviews in the last 2 years. Over all time Happy Days Nursery & Preschool - Cheswick Village has 84 reviews.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Adventurers two-room is excellent. My daughter is very happy.

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All staff are very friendly and give good feedback on the day. Excellent outside space. Good activities inside to do on rainy days.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Our 1 year old son has been going to Happy Days Nursery since he was 8 months old. He loved it from the beginning and we really saw the development in him after he started. All the people that work with him are amazing, but he especially likes his key worker.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

My child has been at nursery for over a year. He has really enjoyed the time so far at Happy Days.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

We have only tried this nursery so cannot compare with others but we are very pleased overall. Our child is always happy to go and clearly enjoys himself there. They seem to do plenty of activities and tailor them to the child's age. They also offer varied menus cooked by the nursery chef, which is
amazing. It is a great relief to be able to go to work knowing our child is well looked after.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

Good nursery, great staff, daughter really enjoys it.
At a higher level, management sometimes feels a bit removed, but otherwise good.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

All the staff within the nursery are very friendly and always give very informative handovers and encourage the child that I care for to tell me about her day too. The children are always really happy and engaged.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

I find all the staff at nursery very kind and engage with the young people very well and my twins are always very happy to go to nursery.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

I find the nursery has made a big impact on my son, he has developed well with his social and speech skills and girls are helpful and full of information. My two children have made a big improvement from since they both started at the nursery.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Our boy is always cared for, I would go as far as to say loved. Feedback is always full and comprehensive and I am confident that they are always on the ball and know what's going on.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

My son has been attending since before this site was opened by travelling to Bradley Stoke. He is now ready to go to school in September and I feel that his time at Happy Days has been invaluable. Though staff retention is difficult my son has had some key role models in the staff that have worked there,
and in particular, they have helped with key milestones in his development and have always been encouraging. I'm not sure how the smart start programme features in this final preschool year and it would be beneficial to understand how this features in a setting where both rooms have children aged 2+, but my son is a content, well rounded individual and has made some wonderful friendships. He will miss this setting, but I feel he is prepared for the future.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

The staff are friendly and caring. My son enjoys his time, there's plenty of activities.
There's nothing negative to say apart from higher fees than nurseries around the area.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Talked about my son's behaviour at nursery - reassurance from his key worker.
Very happy with goals set for my son and the feedback received.

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Great play area. Communicate is great.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

I am really happy with our experience of Happy days Cheswick. My son really enjoys coming to nursery each session. The staff are all very welcoming and friendly.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

Staff work hard and are engaged.
Management are easy to approach and talk to.
Our son is well settled and looks forward to nursery.
Enjoy hearing about group time, seeing the children who listen well at book reading time.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

I would just like to say all the staff who were involved with my daughter's care helped us with her development, she learned to speak and was potty trained by the age of 2. I have nothing but admiration for the managers too, all my requests were all met right up to the end of our time at the nursery.
Even the catering staff assisted with my fussy eater. I have all the praise for this nursery and will always recommend to my family and friends. Thank you all for all your hard work looking after my little girl, I really appreciate it.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

Happy Days Nursery - Cheswick is an excellent nursery. The staff truly care about the children and put a huge amount of effort into planning new and exciting activities for the children every day. The settling in process works really well and the key person approach really helps with this. Our daughter
loves the staff and gets excited when you tell her it's a nursery day. The management team are very supportive in relation to the individual needs of the children. The nursery also makes a huge amount of effort to involve parents with stay and play sessions and open days along with monthly newsletters. It is so good to know that our daughter is happy, safe and around such wonderful people. I couldn't recommend it more.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

My son has been attending Happy Days, Cheswick for 2 1/2 years. His keyworkers have been good and I like that he has been chosen them based on his obvious preference. I love the open days. Great added extra allowing parents to spend time at nursery playing too.
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week have been great. Also, love the role play areas that are set up and changed frequently.
My son seems to enjoy the food and eats things at nursery he won't touch at home! Menu seems varied and smells good to me! A lovely nursery. Thank you.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

The care in the rooms is outstanding. The room staff are very professional and you can tell they really care for your little ones.
Where Happy Days lets itself down is poor communication from management. Management are also unapproachable. The outside space is satisfactory but all man made. There are
no plans to offer field trips or forest schools even though Stoke Park woods are 5 minutes walk away.
All activities that are done are mornings only so if your child goes for afternoons only, they lose out.
On top of this, there are other nurseries in the area which offer all the above and more at a lower price.

Reply from Rebekah Fice-Thomson, Marketing Manager at Happy Days Nursery & Preschool - Cheswick Village

Dear Kirsty - thank you very much for taking the time to review our nursery. It is always nice to hear positive feedback about our nursery teams. We value all your feedback and always consider concerns when raised. Yours sincerely Happy Days.


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Current Review Score: 9.9 (9.881)

Overview of Review Score

The Review Score of 9.9 (9.881) out of 10 for Happy Days Nursery & Preschool - Cheswick Village is based on a) the Average Rating and b) the number of positive Reviews.

  • a) The Average Rating is 4.9 out of 5 from 31 Reviews in the last 24 months.

  • b) The score for the number of positive Reviews is 5.0 out of 5 from 31 positive Reviews in the last 24 months.

Detailed Breakdown of Review Score

The maximum Review Score for a Day Nursery is 10, which is made up from the Average Rating of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) and the Number of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) in the last 24 months:

  • a) 5 Points are available for the Average Rating from all Reviews in the last 24 months.

    The Average Rating of 4.881 for Happy Days Nursery & Preschool - Cheswick Village is calculated as follows: ( (329 Excellents x 5) + (38 Goods x 4) + (3 Satisfactorys x 3) ) ÷ 370 Ratings = 4.881

  • b) 5 Points are available for the number of Positive Reviews in the last 24 months. A Positive Review is defined as any Review with an 'Overall Experience' of '4' or '5' (out of a max rating '5').

    The 5 Points relating to the number of positive Reviews for Happy Days Nursery & Preschool - Cheswick Village is based on 31 positive Reviews in the last 24 months and is calculated as per below:

    The 5 points available are broken down as follows:

    • i) 4 points are available for the first 10 Positive Reviews in the last 24 months; 3 points for the first Positive Review, and then 0.125 Points for each of the next four Positive Reviews and then 0.1 Points for the next five Positive Reviews. (1st = 3.000, 2nd = 0.125, 3rd = 0.125, 4th = 0.125, 5th = 0.125, 6th = 0.100, 7th = 0.100, 8th = 0.100, 9th = 0.100, 10th = 0.100) 3 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 = 4

    • ii) 1 point is available for the number of Positive Reviews reaching 20% of the number of registered child places in the last 24 months. If this number is partially reached, then that proportion of 1 point is given. eg a Day Nursery registered for a maximum of 50 child places has to reach 10 Positive Reviews to receive 1 point, if it has 7 reviews it will receive 0.7 points. 20% of the 82 number of registered child places is 16.4, which has been reached with 31 Positive reviews. Points = 1

  • When a Review is submitted by someone who has previously submitted a Review, only the latest Review will count towards the Review Score.

  • If a Day Nursery does not have a review in the last 24 months, then it will not have a Review Score.

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Shai

Shai Trueman

Job Title: Nursery Manager

Joined: 2024

My name is Shai, and I’ve worked in nurseries for just over 6 years. I started as a level 3 practitioner, then went on to be a Room Manager, and worked my way up into management. I have a passion for early years and supporting children to learn and develop through holistic play. This is such an important age to ensure the children are ready for their transition to school. I have undertaken a variety of training, such as safeguarding, first aid paediatric, first aid at work and food hygiene.


We work very closely with our families to ensure we are supporting the children’s development at home and within the nursery