For families
Parents
Practical information, everyday support and simple ways to stay connected with your child’s learning and care at Rydal Day Nursery.
Planning with confidence
Fees &
Funding
Clear support to help you understand the funded hours available for your child.
At Rydal Day Nursery, we accept both 15 and 30 hours funding from 9 months upward.
Our funding is offered stretched over 47.5 weeks of the year. Rydal Day Nursery does not offer term-time-only spaces.
For more information on your child’s eligibility for funded hours, please visit Childcare & Early Years Education – Best Start in Life.
15 or 30 hours
Funded-hour options for eligible families.
From 9 months
Funding accepted from 9 months upward.
47.5 weeks
Funding stretched across the nursery year.
Year-round places
We do not offer term-time-only spaces.
Freshly prepared each day
Food &
Nutrition
Wholesome, balanced meals and snacks help every child feel ready to learn, play and grow.
Fresh, balanced food for growing minds
At Rydal Day Nursery, we ensure that all children are provided healthy, balanced meals. We provide fresh, home-cooked meals every day, cooked by our onsite chef.
Our chef follows the EYFS Nutrition Guide, ensuring that all meals served are balanced, healthy and nutritious. We provide a rotating 4-week menu, so children are offered variety and are able to try a range of different meals. Fruit is offered for snack twice a day, alongside milk and water.
Every child belongs at the table. We support allergies, intolerances, preferences, cultural and religious requirements, and are always happy to discuss individual needs.
Working together
Parent
Partnership
Strong family relationships help children feel safe, understood and ready for their next steps.
At Rydal Day Nursery, we understand the key role that family relationships play in a child’s development, and we work hard to ensure that we are supportive of both the child and the wider family.
Parent partnership is key to ensuring a smooth transition into the setting for a child, communication being effective is passed between home and the setting, and providing the setting with key information.
We communicate with parents via Nursery in a Box. This allows parents to send messages to the setting, look at their child’s daily diary, including photos and what they’ve eaten. The app provides access to invoices, registration details, your child’s all-about-me information and much more.
Stay in touch
Message the setting and keep up with the information that matters to your family.
Daily diaries
See a picture of your child’s nursery day, including meals and key moments.
Information, in one place.
Parent Admin and Nursery in a Box make it easier to keep nursery and home connected.
Your nursery account
Parent
Admin
A simple place to keep in touch, follow progress and manage important account information.
Each child will have a ‘Celebration of Me’ progress check completed termly. Parents are invited in three times a year for parents’ evenings to speak with their child’s key person and discuss next steps.
Every child is assigned a key person upon starting at the setting. The key person system allows a child to develop a secure attachment with a familiar adult. This adult is responsible for completing progress checks, parent meetings and recording observations and milestones for the child.
Although a child has one key person, all staff in the setting spend time in each of the rooms, allowing the children to form strong bonds with everyone and helping transitions between rooms feel smoother.
Progress and next steps
Keep connected to termly progress checks, parent evenings and your child’s learning journey.
Your child’s key person
Build a strong connection with the familiar adult who supports your child’s development.
Manage your information
Send messages, request extra sessions and update your child’s details through Parent Admin.
Parent Admin, on the go
Keeping families
connected
Simple tools that help keep day-to-day nursery information clear and close at hand.
Stay in touch
Send a message to the nursery and receive notices, newsletters and important updates in one place.
Plan with confidence
See current and future booking patterns, request extra sessions and keep funding information up to date.
Keep details current
Update contact details, permissions, consents, collection passwords and care information when needed.