Maxholme Nursery

04/09/2026

04/09/2026

We currently have scattered availability in both our Willow and Chestnut room between 8.45-2.45 for 2026/2027.

Our delivery model allows for children aged 3-5 years to attend term time and use your funded hours at no extra charge.

Please apply below:
https://www.maxholme.co.uk/apply/how-to-apply

21/08/2026

🌟Well done to all our little Maxholme super stars this week! 🌟
It has been lovely receiving all the pictures of our 25/26 pre schoolers starting P1 this week. They all look very grown up in their school uniforms and it has been wonderful hearing all about their new adventures.

We have welcomed lots of new children at Maxholme Nursery this week in both the Chestnut and Willow room as well as lots of children returning after summer.
It has been lovely watching new friendships blossom, meeting the new families, seeing the excitement on their wee faces for new adventure’s and helping everyone to settle in.

Well done everyone you are all Super Stars, Keep Shining! 🌟💛

01/07/2026

After a very busy summer term with sports day, summer day trips, school transitions for our pre schoolers, the family fun day and our graduation showcase, Maxholme Nursery is now closed for the school summer holidays.

The staff would like to thank all the children and families for their lovely cards and gifts. We hope you all have a wonderful summer and we look forward to welcoming everyone back on MONDAY 17th AUGUST

12/06/2026

In May we had 5 tiny caterpillars arrive at our nursery. The children named them Hungry, Lucy, Colin, Sparkles and Rainbow. Over the past 4-5 weeks the children have watched them grow as caterpillars inside their pot eating and moving about. We have observed them change into Chrysalis ready to transform into a butterfly. They have read books about the life cycle of a caterpillar and made their own life cycle posters. Everyone was delighted when 5 butterflies emerged from their Chrysalis, the children watched 2 of them emerge whilst they were at nursery which was incredibly exciting to witness. For 48 hours we learnt what butterflies needed to survive and children helped to feed them fresh fruit and nectar made from sugar and water mixture. We created our own butterflies exploring symmetry. On Monday of this week it was time to say good bye to our 5 little friends and everyone enjoyed setting them free in the sunshine in the nursery garden. All the children received a certificate for helping to care for the caterpillars.

12/06/2026

We had a lovely trip to Monty's farm park yesterday.
Even in the rain we managed to have fun meeting all the different animals, having a go on the go karts and exploring the play barn. All the children had fun on the tractor ride too !

Thank you all to the parents and grandparents who attended and had fun with us.

30/05/2026

Lovely article in the local community magazine about our upcoming Mermaids and Pirates Family Fun Day.
Please note the correct date is SATURDAY 20th JUNE

Please come along with your family and friends and support our nursery ❤️

15/05/2026

Thank you to all the parents who were involved in our annual sports day on Tuesday.

Children and families had a great time at Bearsden Baptist gardens.

We had a running race, egg and spoon, sack race, bean bag race, bean bag into a hoop and a parents race.

We are thankful to all who helped raise money at this event.

15/05/2026

This week we had our stay and play den building with our parents and grandparents.

Children and adults together explored making Dens in our garden and created different building structures and furniture for the dens. Together they read stories in the dens and role played.

08/05/2026

Within our Willow room the children have been practising many skills and developing new ones within Literacy and numeracy, physical skills and developing well being skills through new relationships.

The children have been looking at a variety of stories such as the Tiger who came to Tea, the Very Hungry Caterpillar and more recently The Gruffalo- opposites.

During Hungry Caterpillar interest, we were included in a small walk to the local shops to buy fruit that the hungry caterpillar ate. We discussed the different types of fruits and looked at some basic numeracy involving money. We also developed some life skills such as chopping fruit.

Through our Tiger who came to tea we had a tea party using pots, cups, spoons and flavoured tea bags, developing friendships and social skills.

The children have been learning opposites through the Gruffalo story such as big and small, long and short. We have compared sizes through measuring who is bigger and smaller height wise between friends and learning which is long and short during a water play experience, where we added long and short ribbons and the children had to compare sizes.