Holyrood® Nurseries

Providing children within local communities throughout the North-West. Each setting offering its own unique environment, with experienced staff and endless opportunities to learn and grow.

Your Local Holyrood Nurseries

Holyrood Nurseries are located throughout the North-West, providing excellence in childcare and early education for children aged from birth to 11 years. Our nurseries and out of school care centres offer a unique range of services and extra-curricular activities to meet individual needs. We pride ourselves on being connected with our local communities and being the childcare provider of choice.

The heart of what we do is providing friendly, safe and supportive environments which put children first every time. Each nursery is unique and we aim to create spaces which feel like a home from home. Children learn and develop well in enabling environments with teaching and support from adults, who respond to their individual interests and needs, and help them to build their learning over their time with us.

We promote learning through play, invigorating outdoor environments and using natural resources. We are committed to providing healthy, balanced nutritional meals, supporting children to explore, learn and socialise and delivering every day with passion!

You’ll love Holyrood Nurseries

Independent, teacher-directed, and small-group activities that encourage investigation, exploration, and discovery
Cleverly planned and stimulating environments, natural resources, loose parts and open-ended play
Curriculum that supports creative expression, literacy, music, and more
Confidence-building opportunities to solve problems and make decisions
STEM learning that encourages future-forward skills
Safety, security, and robust cleanliness practices
We are Ofsted Registered nurseries

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Outdoors and Nature

We love to go outside at all Holyrood Nurseries! We provide separate and inviting outside space, all appropriately set up for each age group. All our outdoor areas provide children with opportunities to get fresh air and have fun in a safe and secure environment.

The children love playing in our gardens which provide a variety of activities including den building, mud kitchens, water play, digging and planting and musical play. As well as access to our fabulous outdoor play areas, children of all ages enjoy regular walks in the local area. Our youngest children are often seen out in our double buggies enjoying the fresh air, sights and sounds of the local community. We use high-visibility vests to keep children safe when out on trips away from the nursery. We believe there is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing – so we ask parents to provide their children with appropriate clothing for all types of weather.

We are committed to being environmentally friendly, making changes wherever we can in order to make the world a cleaner place. We include teaching our children about their environment and the effect we have on it in our day to day lives.

Education at Holyrood Nursery

Our curriculum includes a Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage that offer hands-on approaches to encourage the skills your child will need in the nursery and beyond:

Mathematics: Integrating numbers into real-life routines
Schematic Play: Quality learning environment providing the potential for children’s creativity skills and allowing them to follow their own interests confidently
Listening, Attention and Speaking: Teaching children to express their ideas and feelings about their experiences using complete sentences
Personal, Social and Emotional Education
Birth to 5 Matters Learning and Development Framework
STEM Activities: Building and problem solving using science, technology, engineering, and math
Ensuring children are physically active from birth and meet the Chief Medical Officers (2019) guidelines of a minimum of 3 hours per day

Education

Our Nursery Fees and Funding

We always offer flexible booking patterns and a range of funding options, including 2-5 years old government’s funded childcare.

Fees and Funding

Popular Activities

Our nurseries offer a wide range of nursery activities and extras to enrich every child’s experience at nursery and to support busy parents.

Nursery Library

We believe that reading should be lots of fun, so we run a mini-library service to encourage children to share their favourite stories with their parents, and to help busy parents keep the bookshelf engaging at home! Our nurseries organise regular library visits as part of the learning process.

Excellent Resources

Our nurseries provide an extensive range of resources to encourage children to learn through play.  We favour naturalistic learning resources and make fantastic use of our outdoor equipment, promoting free-flow and child-led learning.

Fundraising Activities

Taking part in fundraising activities helps children to learn about others that are less fortunate than themselves and to understand how we can help them.  Fundraising events are good fun and are a great way to bring children, families and communities together.  Some of the fundraisers we have taken part in are: sponsored toddles, superhero days, baking cakes to sell and garden parties. Read about our Red Nose Day 2022 events here.

Graduations

We celebrate the big move to primary school with a special graduation ceremony each year – caps, gowns, the works!

Heuristic Play

We encourage Heuristic Play with our 1–2-year-olds, embracing every child’s natural curiosity.  This involves offering children a range of different objects and receptacles with which they are encouraged to play freely without adult instruction.

Planting and Growing

We make use of our wonderful outdoor spaces and forest areas by encouraging children at our nurseries and Out of School Care clubs to plant, grow and tend to fruit, vegetables, flowers and herbs throughout the year.

Settling-In Sessions

Our nurseries offer free settling-in sessions.  Parents can bring their child for a couple of hours first, gradually introducing the child to a new environment.  Settling-in sessions are aimed at helping your child to adapt to their new surroundings and become more familiar with the staff and other children.

E-Learning Journals / Parent Zone App

Our E-Learning journals and Parent Zone app allow you to see your child’s activities at nursery with the click of a button.  Staff upload images and notes about your child’s participation in activities at nursery for you to access wherever you are.  Our nursery tablets offer exciting and stimulating learning experiences tailored to challenge and engage little ones.

The Daily Mile

Daily Mile is physical activity and health and well-being in a social, outdoors context.  It is not active play, physical education or outdoor learning, although participating in The Daily Mile can encourage curiosity and interest in outdoor environments in keeping with wider outdoor learning opportunities.  The main goal is to increase daily activity.

Our curriculum

We will guide you through every step to get the most out of our nurseries. Join our family across the UK. If you have any questions or enquiries please feel free to contact us on the following details provided below or alternatively you can complete our online enquiry form also located below and we will get back to you as soon as possible…

Our Curriculum

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