The Murrayfield Nursery - Edinburgh

🌲✨ Forest fun! ✨🌲

Our nursery children had a fantastic time outdoors—climbing trees 🌳, exploring up and down the hill ⛰️, and building dens together 🏕️.

A lovely day full of adventure, teamwork, and learning through play! 💚

🎁 Get into the Festive Spirit! 🎅

🌟 The Murrayfield Nursery Christmas Fair Themed Open Day is COMING! 🌟
Get ready for a magical day of festive fun and family excitement at our nursery!

Join us on Saturday, 29th November 2025, from 10am - 2pm for:

🎄 Joyful Christmas crafts, games, and seasonal treats!

💖 A chance to explore our inspiring nursery and meet our friendly team.

It's the perfect opportunity to experience the magic of our community!

BOOK NOW to join the celebration! 📞 0131 346 4459 📧 [email protected]

🌟 A Huge Thank You! 🌟

We want to say a massive thank you to everyone who joined us for our Open Event on Saturday! It was such a pleasure to welcome you all and share a glimpse of the wonderful things happening here each day.

Our dedicated team works tirelessly to create a safe, stimulating, and homely environment where every child can grow, learn, and develop at their own pace. Seeing so many smiling faces and supportive families truly reminds us why we do what we do. 💛

If you couldn’t make it this time, don’t worry — we’d still love to show you around! Get in touch to arrange a visit and see what makes our setting so special.

🥂🌸Today we celebrated Claire who has been with us for 30 fantastic years! We are so grateful for all of your years of hard work, commitment and passion and we look forward to you being a part of our family for many more! 🤩✨

🌿✨ The Care Inspectorate Quality Improvement Framework for early learning and childcare highlights every child’s right to play — reminding us that young people should have fun, experience joy, and enjoy high-quality play and learning both indoors and outdoors. It also emphasises the importance of young people being meaningfully and actively involved in leading their own play and learning.

At Murrayfield Nursery, our team has fully adopted this approach. The children enjoy regular visits to Corstorphine Woods, where they explore, imagine, laugh and learn — whatever the weather brings! ☔🌞

Muddy boots, happy hearts and big smiles… that’s what outdoor learning is all about. 💛

📚✨ At Murrayfield Nursery, we know that stories are where the magic begins! Join us at our Writing-themed Open Day on 4th October and see how storytelling inspires confidence, creativity and a love of learning. 🌈

📖✨ Storytelling sparks imagination, builds confidence and lays the foundation for strong communication skills.

Discover how we make learning joyful at our Writing-themed Open Day on 4th October — you won’t want to miss it! 🌈

🐷✨ “Little pig, little pig, let me come in!” 🐺💨

At Murrayfield Nursery today, our young people have been fully immersed in the classic tale of The Three Little Pigs—and loving every moment of it!

Through imaginative role play and loose parts, they’ve been exploring the story in their own creative way. From huffing and puffing to hiding behind “wooden” houses, they’re bringing the tale to life with big ideas and even bigger giggles! 🪵🏠

📚 According to the Quality Improvement Framework, children should have frequent, appropriate opportunities to develop their thinking and problem-solving skills through imaginative play and storytelling. These experiences help them extend their own thinking, practise new skills, and consolidate their learning in ways that are meaningful to them.

Can you guess which part of the story they’re acting out? 👀👇

🌟 A Special Visitor at Murrayfield Nursery! 🌟

Last week, we were honoured to welcome Natalie Don-Innes, Minister for Children, Young People and The Promise, along with her colleague Scott Sutherland, to our nursery.

After a warm tour of our setting, the children delighted in helping prepare some home baking and a lovely cup of tea for our guests — and it was just as fun (and sweet!) as it sounds.

The Minister shared wonderful feedback about the nurturing environment at Murrayfield and praised the positive, engaging interactions between our team and the children. Moments like these remind us how special our nursery community truly is.

Thank you to our incredible team and children for making the visit so memorable! 👏

Special shout-out to our fabulous chef who used two courgettes brought in by one of our children who carefully grew them in his garden at home! Dean wasted no time in incorporating them into the lunch for the day which was an exciting treat for all!

We are so proud to have such motivated and passionate team members👏🤩