Your practitioners notice a hundred small wonders before lunch. Oyku gives them a ten-second way to share the right ones with the right family — manager-approved, consent-aware, and lovely to look at. Sit it beside your learning journal, or let it quietly become the thing parents check on the bus home.
Aisha Freya found a snail, named it Bob, and introduced Bob to every single person in the garden.
These are the sentences we hear on almost every call with nurseries and early years settings. If two of them are yours, Oyku will probably feel like relief.
Observations are for the child's development record. Oyku is for the parent's heart at 5:40pm. It complements the journal rather than competing with it.
Oyku asks for a photo and two taps. No text required. The observation stays in your journal; the joy goes to the parent immediately.
Consent lives on the child's profile. Opt-out children are shielded from other families' feeds and from all public content — the app enforces it, not memory.
Personal numbers, no record, no approval. Oyku gives families a school-owned channel that's nicer than WhatsApp, so the groups can close.
Approved moments, cleared for public use only where consent allows, become a ready library for social and your website. Occupancy follows visibility.
Every reaction, view and shared moment is timestamped. One click exports a parent-engagement summary alongside your evidence.
Oyku is deliberately not a billing, attendance or admin system. It is the layer parents open — and the one that makes your nurseries and early years settings feel as good from the outside as they are on the inside.
Parents open Oyku and see only the moments their child appears in — tagged by the teacher, approved by the school. No public timeline, no strangers, no ads.
Snap on any phone, tap the children in the photo, pick the activity, post. Oyku handles grouping, captions and tagging so teachers spend time with kids, not with an app.
Admins can review, restrict or approve every photo and video. Per-child consent flags mean a child whose family opted out is never shared — even by accident.
Hearts, stars, smiles, cakes and balloons. Teachers see who loved what. Principals can pin recognition badges to the moments that deserve it.
The best classroom moments, cleared for public use, become ready-to-post content for Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp Channels and Google Business — the admissions engine you already needed.
Oyku gathers each child's most loved moments into a beautifully printed hardback that arrives at the family's door. Eighteen years from now, there's a row of them on a shelf.
No new job for teachers. No new inbox for parents. Just the moments that already happen, arriving where they belong.
A tearful goodbye. Ten minutes later a teacher posts a photo of the same child grinning at the water table. A parent on the train exhales.
A first hand raised. A first word read aloud. The teacher taps the child, chooses “Literacy”, and posts. The photo is tagged to exactly one family.
A quick group photo of the room at nap time. Approved by the admin in one tap from the office. Six families get a gentle ‘all is well’.
A twelve-second video of a relay race. The principal adds a ‘Teamwork’ badge. Parents react with balloons. The teacher sees them.
“How was your day?” becomes “Tell me about the water table.” The conversation at dinner starts from a photo, not from ‘fine’.
The year's best moments — chosen by Oyku, approved by the parent — arrive printed and bound. Real paper. Real teachers' words.
A 20-minute call. A free pilot classroom. No card, no contract.
Oyku is used across the US, UK, Europe, the Gulf, India and Asia-Pacific. The product is the same; the language, the consent norms and the reporting expectations are not — so we tuned for each.
Activity tags align to the EYFS areas of learning. Evidence exports bundle photos, tags and timestamps for inspection or transition. UK GDPR data-processing agreement available on request.
Tag sets for Realising the Ambition, the Curriculum for Wales foundation phase and the NI pre-school curriculum. Same product, local vocabulary.
Aistear-friendly tags and Irish-English UI copy. Data hosted in the EU with a GDPR DPA. Pricing in euro.
Illustrative moments from settings like yours. Every photo in a real Oyku feed is tagged to one child, approved by the school and shown only to that child's family.
Your teachers are already doing the work. Oyku just makes it visible.
Capture in ten seconds. Approve in one tap. Print once a year. That's the whole product.
Teachers pull a ready-to-run activity with materials, steps and the moment to capture. Or send a ten-minute brief home and watch the photos come back.
It doesn't have to. Many nurseries run Oyku beside their journal: the journal holds formal observations and assessments; Oyku is the daily, per-child photo and video feed parents actually open. If you'd rather have one tool, Oyku's activity tags and exports cover a lot of ground — we'll be honest on the call about where a dedicated journal still wins.
Under £8 per child per month; most settings land nearer £4–5. Begin with a free pilot room for 60 days with no card and no contract. We'll give you a firm number for your setting on a 20-minute call.
Consent is recorded per child. Children marked opt-out are never tagged, never shown to other families, and never included in public content. Every post is manager-approved. We provide a UK GDPR / EU GDPR data-processing agreement and data is encrypted in transit and at rest.
Yes. Every moment is timestamped and activity-tagged; a one-click export produces parent-partnership evidence and per-child summaries. Many managers use it to show how they share learning with families.
Parents react (hearts, stars, smiles and more) and can comment on their own child's moments. Oyku is deliberately not an open chat: no personal numbers, no out-of-hours pressure on staff.
Yes — from a childminder with six children to a 200-place nursery. The free pilot is the same for everyone.
Oyku for nurseries and early years settings near you
Parent partnership ideas for nurseries and early years settings in the UK — EYFS-aware, Ofsted-friendly, and light on practitioner time. From daily moments to home-learning links.
What UK and EU GDPR actually require when a nursery or Kita shares photos of children with parents or publicly — lawful basis, consent, DPAs, retention, DPIAs and the questions to ask any app vendor.
Learning journals (Tapestry, Famly, Kinderly) document development. A daily photo feed builds parent trust. They do different jobs — here's how settings decide whether to run one, the other, or both.
You bring the questions; we bring a live account with real classroom moments. If Oyku isn't right for you, we'll say so on the call.
Tell us a little about your setting. We'll reply within one school day with two or three time slots and a live demo link.
