Set up your setting

Work through this checklist before your team starts recording the day. You will need the setting owner or manager for most setup tasks.

Create or join the setting

If someone has invited you, open their invitation and sign in with the email address they invited. Join the existing setting so that everyone works with the same records.

If you are the person setting up Meadow, sign in and follow the create-setting prompt. Enter your setting’s name. You become its owner. Use the setting menu at the top of the sidebar to switch between settings you belong to.

Prepare the essentials

1. Open School settings and check your setting’s name and details.
2. Add your rooms. Enter each room’s capacity and staff-to-child ratio using the figures that apply to your setting.
3. Set opening hours and closure days.
4. Invite your staff. Give each person the right role and allocated room.
5. Add your children, or import a child list. Check names, dates of birth and rooms before inviting families.
6. Add term dates, then children’s schedules. Record NCS registrations where needed.
7. Check each child’s contacts and invite parents and family.

Check you are ready for the first day

Open Schedules and review the coming week. Check that each child has the right days, times and rooms, including any ECCE hours.

Open Today. Children due to arrive should appear as expected when the setting is open. They move to checked in only after someone records their arrival.

Agree with your team who records attendance, who checks messages and who corrects mistakes. Start with Daily care.