Welcome to Our Nature Kindergarten

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Rowanberry Kindergarten is a Steiner-inspired child-minding service and outdoor nursery in Edinburgh South. As a kindergarten Edinburgh provider, we offer childcare and early childhood education, mainly for children aged 3 to 5 years old, although we occasionally take children younger than this. You will usually find us exploring nature, making crafts, singing and storytelling, baking and creating! Our days flow with a home-spun, family ethos – our children love to play together, and they are supported to build lasting friendship bonds.

Our nursery in Gilmerton is run by Synnove Frankel, a trained Steiner Waldorf Kindergarten teacher, with many years experience of working with young children. Synnove is supported by wonderful assistants, one of whom is Forest-School trained and others who were Steiner school parents, home educating parents and childminding experienced. Our setting is a large yurt, complemented by the front and back gardens of the family home, with a large sandpit, and home-made mud kitchen.

If you are interested in a space for your child, please fill in our online enquiries form here. If you would like to come for a visit, or require more information, please contact us.

"My three children have all attended rowanberry kindergarten for their nursery years and I wholeheartedly recommend it if you’re looking for a small, nurturing and beautiful environment for your children. A real perk for us has been that food is all prepared on site with helpful small hands pitching in to prepare wholesome, healthy meals and snacks."

— Lottie, Mum of three

Funding Information

Tax Free Childcare

We are signed up with “Tax Free Childcare” at HMRC which can help with childcare payments. Please take a look at the website below to see if you qualify and would like to take advantage of the scheme.

www.gov.uk/tax-free-childcare

If you have any problems finding us on the HMRC website please get in touch!

Funded Places Available

We partnered with Edinburgh City Council to offer fully funded places for 3 & 4 year olds and we’ve had several families taking advantage of this fantastic opportunity. We were one of the first settings in Edinburgh to trial this and later also one of the first settings to be able to offer the higher number of funded hours at 1140 funded nursery hours per year.

We have had questions regarding this recently and we wanted to clarify how these hours are distributed throughout the year. Some childcare settings are only open during school term time. 1140 hours distributed in this manner throughout the year means that these childcare settings offer 30 hours per week per child. We are open for 45 weeks per year (the 2020/21 calendar can be downloaded in the starting forms page of this website) which means this works out at 25 hours per week. Our session times are 5 hours each (8am – 1pm, & 1pm – 6pm) so you are entitled to 5 sessions of funded care per week.

Funding starts the term after your child turns 3. So if, for example, your child is born in October then the funding will start in January.

If you have any questions or would like to get on our waiting list please fill in our New Enquiry form on the contact page.

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