Welcome to Cotton Socks Day Nursery

“Having my daughter in the nursery helped her become more outgoing & confident with other children”. (Mother of H).

“You bridged the gap before D started school” (Mother of D).

What do you look for - Happy children? Caring staff? Safe environment? Flexible sessions? Competitively priced? At Cotton Socks, we offer you all of this - and more. In fact, our highest accolade is from our teacher customers who are delighted with the all-round childcare & educational development we offer, & keen to recommend us to you.

Our customers’ range from teachers & nurses to bank workers & local business people. All with different needs. We aim to make theirs & your potential childcare arrangements as easy as possible. Choosing childcare is a major decision - we hope that we will be able to help you.

More about Cotton Socks

Cotton Socks is a family run nursery located in picturesque surroundings with farmland around - creating many opportunities for supervised educational nature walks for the children.

All our rooms are bright, light and airy providing a vibrant visual experience for you and your child. The rooms are well equipped with a variety of creative activities, toys, play equipment and soft play area.

We have two self contained extended outside play areas which allows for outdoor classroom activities, bikes and cars plus a pet’s corner with guinea pigs. We have a vegetable garden which the children helped design. We grown our our own potatoes, beans, carrots and lettuce!

Cotton Socks is close to Thorpe Bay, Rochford, Shoebury, Wakering & Southend. We have a private car park at the rear of the nursery for safe drop off and collection of your child.

We are linked to Wakering Children's Centre and are the recommended Day Nursery for the area. We work with Southend NCT on a variety of fund raising activities and also support a number of local schools through sponsorship.

The owner, Richard Harvey, is a Community Governor at Wakering Primary School and on the Parents' Association at Barling School.

We work with the local community and attend Harvest Festival and Christmas Carol singing at Barling Church. We have hosted fund raising activities for the church. Every two years we host the Barling School reunion where up to 90 old school pupils attend some into their late 80's.

We offer free pre-school places for over 3's.