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Nursery chain opens new eco-build setting

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Childbase Partnership has opened an innovative purpose-built nursery on the site of Cranfield University in Milton Keynes.

Cherry Trees Day Nursery was founded in the university grounds in 1996 and has now moved to its new location, expanding to become a 120-place setting.

Due to it being in a new building, the nursery qualifies as a new registration and will have to be re-inspected by Ofsted. It previously achieved two consecutive Ofsted ratings at the original 50-place nursery.

The new site is four times the size of the old property, and has a large communal atrium (below) for all ages to socialise and conduct individual projects.

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It features new technology like bi-lingual language systems, which make books, posters, stickers and cards, and more effectively support children with English as a second language as well as introducing languages to all the children.

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