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Cambourne has excellent educational facilities for its young residents. The Sunflower Day Nursery on the High Street opened in September 2008 and can look after up to 50 babies and toddlers. The nursery is owned by Cambridge Housing Society who have run the highly regarded Sunflower Nursery in Cambridge City for the past 17 years. The nursery is happy to welcome children of employees working on Cambourne Business Park.
The Nursery is open from 8.00am to 6.00pm and offers full time and part time places and half days. For more information contact Alison Booth at Alison.booth@cambridgehs.org.uk  Tel 01223 713757

Monkfield Park Primary School moved into its brand new building on School Lane, Great Cambourne in March 2000. It will eventually cater for 420 pupils from 4 to 11 years of age. The school, which has been designed to deliver a curriculum appropriate to the educational and technological needs of the 21st century, received an excellent OFSTEAD inspection report in February 2001.  It has a well respected reputation as a centre of excellence for its ICT facilities, and has been grouped in the top 25% of schools in the country by its 2001 OFSTED Report.

For more information contact the school office on 01954 273377, email office@MonkfieldPark.cambs-schools.net

The Vine Inter-Church Primary School opened in Upper Cambourne in September 2005. The voluntary aided school, jointly supported by the Church of England and the Methodist Church, has room for 420 pupils aged 4-11.

The Headteacher, Debbie Higham, can be contacted on 01954 719630 or emailed at office@thevine.cambs.sch.uk  or for more information visit the school website at  http://www.thevine.cambs.sch.uk/

Cambourne’s  third school,  Jeavons Wood Primary School will be located on Eastgate in Great Cambourne. A temporary school, located next to the Church on Eastgate is operating while building work on the new school gets underway. Jeavons Wood School will be a foundation primary school affiliated to the Comberton Educational Trust. The head teacher is Sarah Humphreys.

For all enquiries please contact: Rachel Walsh, Administration Manager on:
07854 9878 24 or visit http://www.jeavonswoodprimaryschool.org.uk/

For children aged 11 to 16 the nearby Comberton Village College offers an excellent education opportunity. The school is being expanded to accommodate the Cambourne community. It has long been regarded as one of the best schools in Cambridgeshire and last year it became one of only 250 schools in the country to be designated as a Beacon School. This acknowledges the fact that the school is viewed as outstanding by the Department for Education and Skills.

For further information contact 01223 262503 or visit www.comberton.cambs.sch.uk

The strength of this educational infrastructure will ensure companies based on Cambourne Business Park will benefit from the availability of a skilled workforce whose own children's education can be provided to a very high standard locally.