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Little Rays Nursery Ballymena caters for children aged 2 months to 12 years, offering parents the option of full and part time care.
The staff team are 100% qualified to meet high standards of childcare, as well as making the most of each child's early learning potential. An experienced team looks to build strong relationships with parents and has benefitted from low staff turnover.
A covered outdoor play area and 3G pitch...
Funding & Fees
Daily £67.01
Full Time Rate (5 x Days) £276.35
Daily £38.79
Full time rate(5 x Days) £161.72
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Type of Service
- Day Nursery
Opening Schedule
Open all yearFull days available
YesHalf day sessions offered
YesGroup/Owner
- Little Rays
- Private Owned
Person in charge
- Lesley Walker (Manager)
Number of Childcare Staff
- 37
Total Places for Children
- 197
Age Range
- from 0 years 2 months
- to 5 years 0 months
Meals Provided
NoConsumables provided
NoOpening Times
- Monday 07:30-18:00
- Tuesday 07:30-18:00
- Wednesday 07:30-18:00
- Thursday 07:30-18:00
- Friday 07:30-18:00
When Closed
- Bank Holidays
Little Rays Nursery Ballymena Reviews (107)
Little Rays Nursery Ballymena has a Review Score of 9.4 (9.395) out of 10, based on 19 reviews in the last 2 years.
Over all time Little Rays Nursery Ballymena has 107 reviews.
Could not recommend highly enough. My son has loved the nursery since day one. I’ve never felt a reason to complain. He talks about his teachers extremely positively and has a fabulous attachment to them. I love the app and the sharing of pictures and activities. The meals provided are substantial and healthy. Credit to all staff who work there.
Thank you!
Our child has been welcomed from the start and has been made to feel safe and secure. The staff are very friendly and informative. Additional information was provided when written information was requested on the progress of our child. A great variety of activities and the children's physical and emotional needs are catered for to a high standard. Our child loves it.
Thank you!
My son has been going to Little Rays Nursery Ballymena now for about three years and has always had the best care. The staff are all lovely and genuinely care about the development and well being of the kids. Wouldn’t send my son anywhere else!
Thank you for this. That's indeed the highest praise possible and we're so happy to hear both you and your son are content with Little Rays.
My child has attended Little Rays Nursery Ballymena since September 2020, he enjoys going and is very settled. The girls are lovely that look after him. He goes in very happy and leaves the same! Any problems are sorted immediately by the management.
Thanks for this.
Little Rays Nursery Ballymena offers overall a great service. The staff are really friendly and my son loves going each day. He is well looked after and I believe he is learning a lot from being there. I would recommend Little Rays Nursery Ballymena to anyone.
Through play is how children learn most effectively, and the activities provided to all the children ensures they are all learning on a daily basis. The team always aim to be courteous and accommodating and love to see the little ones arrive each day.
Both my little ones attend full time and love it! They are kept busy throughout the day and being able to see what they are doing on the app is fantastic, I love logging in and seeing what pictures are put up. All the staff are great, so friendly and welcoming.
Thank you
I am very happy with Little Rays Nursery Ballymena. I love the way they care for my little boy, he learns all sort of things, he is happy to go to the nursery, he eats well and he has plenty of activities there. The staff are very gentle and nice with my little boy. Thank you.
The team are so dedicated and truly love all the children. Thank you for sending this.
Amazing! We as parents highly recommended this nursery. The staff are excellent, they are friendly, yet professional and approachable, they have a interest in your child and are very informative. I have no hesitation when I leave our daughter in the morning, she is happy to go and enjoys being there. The girls have brought my daughter on leaps and bounds, I cannot thank them enough. Love the nursery app, you know exactly what she is eating and it's always lovely to see pictures of what activities they have done each day. Their menu option is fantastic, a variety of healthy meals and it accommodates allergies and dietary requirements. During the adaptation to Covid-19, everything ran super smoothly and Little Rays Nursery Ballymena are compliant. All ground work is kept up to day and not forgetting that everything office based runs smoothly. I highly recommend this nursery.
Thanks so much for including everyone in this kind review. It truly is a team effort and all in Little Rays play their part tirelessly and constantly.
Little Rays Nursery Ballymena is a fabulous nursery. I have two children under the age of two at the nursery and they absolutely love it. The girls are absolutely fantastic, they can’t do enough to be helpful! They have been brilliant during these difficult times and are always willing to go the extra mile for the kids. Well done Little Rays Nursery Ballymena.
Thank you for this kind review, it means so much to us to get this positive feedback.
The care and attention given by staff is fantastic. Our daughter could not be happier and is always keen to get to nursery for all the fun and games. Activities and learning opportunities are excellent.
We appreciate your time in writing this review.
My little girl (19 months) absolutely loves going to Little Rays. She talks about the children and staff outside of the hours that she attends and always tells me she is excited to go! It is clear at drop off and pick up that the staff know her well and it makes the day easier knowing that my child has developed such a bond with some of them as well as a bond with other children in the room. Throughout the settling in period, the staff were very mindful of my anxieties and handled me just right! (It wasn't just my girl they had to look after). The app on offer alongside the childcare is brilliant. Another example of how the nursery strives to keep the parents at ease as well as the children. As well as the superb team of childcarers, this daycare also offers a great range of activities and an excellent food menu throughout the day.
Keeping the children busy and well-fed is high on our agenda and the staff team do an excellent job with both.
Thanks for this positive review.
The staff are lovely and very friendly. I can see that my boy enjoys being there although he is very young. It's reassuring being able to have some insight of his day through the app, see his smile on the photos and the variety of activities and food available. They are also very informative if he gets hurt/sick during the day.
I'm glad to hear your son is happy in Little Rays.
My little one has attended here since September 2019 and she has settled in really well. She greets the staff in the morning with outstretched arms and will happily go to them. The staff are great and provide a caring environment. The activities organised are fun, so much so that sometimes she doesn’t want to leave and it’s great seeing the pictures and updates throughout the day. Overall, I am very happy with Little Rays and would definitely recommend.
We love hearing positive comments like this and thank you for taking the time to write them. The staff team really are so dedicated and love seeing the happy, smiling faces of the children. The use of the parent app offers reassurance and reliable updates throughout the day and are always there to look back on.
My son loves attending the nursery, a great bunch of girls and management couldn't be more helpful when we needed to increase days due to myself getting back to work. He always comes home with lots of stories of what he has been up to. Lots of great hearty meals and the place always looks clean and tidy.
The staff team really are second to none and genuinely care for the children they look after. Thanks for this lovely review.
100% would recommend to anyone.
Happy children make working much less stressful for parents and the staff work so hard to make sure this is the case for every child.
I confidently drop him off knowing he is in good hands and that means the world to any parent.
We're so happy to hear the team are doing a great job, they really are a dedicated bunch. It's also great to hear we can offer reassurance to busy parents and can take the stress out of leaving their precious child to be cared for.
My son loves attending the after school club, always lots of fun and messy activities for them to enjoy. All the staff are so friendly and, with all the covid regulations in place, I know my son is in a safe environment, hygiene is of highest standards and lots of info is placed on the app so I'm kept up to date. The app is also great for seeing photos of the days activities and what he has eaten throughout the day.
Thanks for taking the time to write this review, the team really appreciate it.
Excellent staff, the nursery is well kept and the children are extremely well looked after. There are loads of activities for the children and the online portal makes it very easy to keep track of our child’s day. We would highly recommend this nursery to other parents.
My Nursery Pal is a great way of keeping the parents as up to date as possible about their child's day. The staff team work really hard to provide the best care to all the children.
Great experience with this nursery so far. Accommodating when work schedule changed and needed additional days etc. Lovely staff and my little girl has come on well with her development and socialisation during these strange days. Very compliant with covid regulations etc which puts your mind at ease. Also great communication through updates during the day which is lovely to receive when in work.
We appreciate you taking the time to write this.
The staff are kind, caring and easy to talk to and get along with. My son always has a smile on his face on drop off and so do the staff. I was anxious putting my son into daycare when I went back to work after maternity leave but I didn’t need to be as he has settled in great and thoroughly enjoys attending Little Rays.
They have a secure large garden for the children to play in that is walled and fenced and get the children out whenever they can. My son loves racing about the garden and playing on the ride-on toys.
We love that they use an app so that we can see the updates on what our son has been getting, what he has been eating and we live for the photo updates too they are the best and never fail to put a smile on our faces.
Outdoor play and physical activity is so important for young developing children and Little Rays promotes and encourages it all year round. Our large covered outdoor play areas allow for this.
The app offers reassurance and accurate updates for busy working parents at any time of the day or night.
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Awards / Recognitions (7)
- Recipient: Little Rays Nursery BallymenaDate: Monday 31 Mar 2025
- Recipient: Little Rays Nursery BallymenaDate: Thursday 28 Mar 2024
- Recipient: Little Rays Nursery BallymenaDate: Friday 28 Apr 2023
Meet the Team (1)
Lesley is the manager of Little Rays Nursery, Ballymena. She has worked at Little Rays since 2022. Lesley has a Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for children's care, learning and development and paediatric first aid. Lesley is also our designated child protection officer.
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