Parents do not entrust their child to a nursery. They entrust them to people. Yet most families only know one or two first names, caught in passing on a busy morning. A team page changes that: it gives every professional in your setting a face, a first name and a role, on a page you share with families through a single link.
What changes
Until now, introducing your team usually meant a poster in the hallway or a page in the welcome folder. Good idea, but quickly out of date. A new colleague arrives and the poster is wrong. Someone leaves and their photo stays up for months. And a family who rarely comes on site never sees it at all.
With the team page, you introduce your professionals once, properly, straight from your nursery software. Each professional has their own card: a photo, their first name, their role or qualification, and a short free bio. You can also group your team by room or by section, so every parent can see who looks after their child. The page carries your setting name and colours, works on mobile as well as on a computer, and appears in the language of your families.
Best of all, it stays up to date on its own. You add or remove someone in your Kidola nursery software and the page follows.
A concrete example: before the first day
Little Lea is enrolled. Her first day is coming up, and her mum has that small knot in her stomach every parent knows: who am I leaving her with?
A few days before settling in, you share the link to your team page with families. That evening, quietly at home, Lea's mum discovers Élodie, your nursery nurse, Alexandre, the paediatric nurse, and the rest of the team. Faces, smiles, a few words about each of them.
She is not reading a list of qualifications. She is putting faces to the people who will look after her daughter. On settling-in day she arrives calmer, and so does Lea. That small connection did more than any set of house rules.
The benefits for your setting
- A calmer start. A parent who already knows the faces of the team approaches settling in with more confidence. And a child who senses their parents are at ease settles in more easily.
- Zero upkeep. No more poster to reprint every time the team changes. The page updates itself automatically from your nursery software.
- A team that is seen. Showing faces, training and a personal word recognises the place your professionals hold. A team that feels seen is a team that stays.
- A landmark for families. All year round, parents know who looks after their child: useful at handover, at meetings, or for a quick word in the corridor.
How do you turn it on?
- In your Kidola nursery software, go to the Menu, Employee section.
- Open Roles and access, then click Activate the team page.
- Fill in each profile: photo, role or qualification, and a short bio. All that is left is to share the link with your families.
Allow a few minutes per person. Once the page is live, it looks after itself.
In short
A parent at ease hands over their child more readily. And nothing reassures quite like a familiar face. The team page turns an intention many nurseries already have, introducing their professionals, into a simple tool that is always up to date and easy to share, fed by the nursery software you already use every day.
Settling in starts before the first day, the moment a family puts faces to your team. A parent who knows who they are leaving their child with asks fewer questions in the morning, and trusts more for the rest of the year. At Kidola we built the team page so that this does not become one more task for the manager: you fill it in once and it keeps itself up to date.
Your questions about the team page
Do parents see the whole team?
You decide who appears. You can show the entire team or only some professionals, and group them by room or section so each family first finds the people who look after their child. That helps as soon as a setting has several rooms: a parent from the baby room does not have to scroll through twenty profiles to find the three people they see every morning. And if you would rather show only the permanent team, short-term cover can stay off the page.
Do I have to update everything at every change?
No. The page syncs with your nursery software. An arrival or a departure recorded in Kidola carries over automatically, with nothing for you to do. That is the whole difference with a poster in the hallway: you maintain a single source of information, the one you already keep up to date for rotas and contracts. The only time you come back to the page is to add the photo and a few words for a new colleague. A few minutes, once.
Are the photos and details protected?
The page is reached through a link you share with families. You keep control over its content and over who appears on it, and you can remove a profile at any time. One point worth remembering, whatever the tool: an employee photo is covered by their image rights. It is better to get their agreement in writing before publishing it, even on a page reserved for families. A line in the contract or a short separate document is enough, and it avoids any awkwardness the day someone leaves.
What language does the page appear in?
It adapts to the language of your families. That is a real plus in Luxembourg and Belgium, where the same room often welcomes French, Dutch and German speaking parents. Every family reads the page in their own language, without you having to produce three versions or settle on a common language that suits nobody. The first names, roles and bios you enter stay exactly as you wrote them.