We use some essential cookies to make this website work. These cookies aren't used to track you. We'd like to set additional cookies to understand how you use Thrive Childcare. This information is used to improve our services.
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.
Home / Holyrood®
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!
Ofsted outstanding nurseries
Long-standing staff teams
Free settling-in session
Emergency Services discounts and tailored childcare
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.
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:
We always offer flexible booking patterns and a range of funding options, including 2-5 years old government’s funded childcare. To find out more information on pricing and availability, please request a call back and we will be in touch shortly.
Our fees include:
*Terms and conditions apply to our funding options and discounts. Contact us for more information.
Our nurseries offer a wide range of nursery activities and extras to enrich every child’s experience at nursery and to support busy parents.
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.
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.
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.
We celebrate the big move to primary school with a special graduation ceremony each year – caps, gowns, the works!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Holyrood Nursery Dryden Street is an established and trusted centre of early education situated in Manchester City Centre. Our nursery predominantly caters for staff and students of Manchester University, providing childcare for children aged 12 weeks to 5 years.
Holyrood Warrington has been a well-established and trusted nursery in the beautiful area of Grappenhall. With a reputation for providing high-quality childcare, we feel when visiting you can feel our nursery exudes our ethos and focus on children first.
Holyrood Nursery Swinton is an all-inclusive nursery and out of school care club situated in the middle of a large residential area in Clifton. 12
Holyrood Nursery Shaw is an all-inclusive nursery offering full time and part time childcare for children between the ages of 3 months – 5 years old, located in Oldham.
Holyrood Nursery is situated in a beautiful residential area in the heart of Salford. This original, Victorian property is located off the main junction on the M62 and is easily accessible by public transport.
Holyrood Nursery Prestwich is situated in a beautiful residential area on Bury Old Road. Our setting, a large detached private house, is located along from the main entrance to Heaton Park and is easily accessible by public transport
Holyrood Nursery is situated directly opposite Salford Royal Hospital and is dedicated to providing childcare for families who work for the NHS. We offer flexible packages to support irregular shift patterns and long days, giving you the peace of mind that your child is in a safe and happy environment whilst you work.
Holyrood Nursery Princes Dock is an all-inclusive nursery situated in the prestigious Princes Dock development in Liverpool. Located opposite the Mal Maison Hotel, our nursery is beautifully designed and finished to an exceptionally high standard, creating a warm and homely atmosphere.
Holyrood Nursery Castleton is situated just off Manchester Road, on Heywood Road, Castleton. Our stunning property is in close proximity to Castleton Train Station, perfect for those who travel by public transport.
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…
Located across Scotland. Everything is included; from delicious, nutritionally balanced meals to nappies and wipes – we have everything covered.
Located across Scotland. We pride ourselves in providing excellence in childcare and early education for children aged from birth to 11 years.
Nature Kindergartens provides an enriched, outdoor, learning environment where your child can develop their interests whilst being fully immersed in nature.
These cookies are essential, as they enable a user to move around a website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, such as access to secure areas cannot be provided. These cannot be restricted or blocked.
These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. These can be restricted or blocked
To give you a better experience, we use first-party cookies and third-party cookies. A first party cookie is a cookie that we set when you directly visit our website. A third-party cookie is one that is placed on your device by a website from an address other than directly from us.
They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies you. All the information that these cookies collect is anonymous and is only used to improve how a website works.