News 2025 – Social Meeting Places
Social meeting places in kindergartens outside regular opening hours
Students with children are often in a different life phase than many of their fellow students. Several are single parents, and therefore more alone during evenings and weekends. Some student parents also live in cramped conditions and don’t always have space to host visitors. In such cases, the kindergarten facilities can be great meeting places for social gatherings, where children get to play with others in familiar and safe surroundings.
Our goal:
- We facilitate a better everyday life for students with children.
- Student families have the opportunity to get to know other student families within SIO.
Spring events:
- Frydenhaug 20.september - Activity day
- Blindernveien 21.oktober - Meet and eat
- Almelia 1.november - Saturday kindergarten for all students. Sign-up.
What can we offer?
We are proud to have a professional kindergartens with experienced and dedicated employees, and about the fact that parents place us at the top of user surveys - year after year. And remember – if we have available places, SiO's kindergartens are also available for non-students.
"SiO Kindergartens make the student life easier for me as a parent."
Parent in Blindernveien SiO Kindergarten
Continuous admission from eight months
In the student kindergartens we have continuous admission throughout the year if we have available spots, which means that you do not have to think about when your child is born when it comes to starting kindergarten.It is difficult to move studies and semester startup. To help with this your child can start already when it is eight months old, so that you can start your studies on time.
Extended opening, opening hours and exam guarantee
Student life is busy and during the intense exam periods autumn and spring we have free Saturday kindergarten, so you can have an extra reading day. SiO kindergartens are open most days during the Christmas and Easter holidays. We also offer extended opening hours during practice in studies if needed. Talk to the manager of your kindergarten for help.If your child becomes sick on the day of an exam, we offer to supervise the child in the kindergarten or in your home.
"We see that many student parents enjoy the offer of a saturday kindergarten."
Anette Espenes - Manager at Frydenhaug SiO Kindergarten
Meals
At SiO Kindergarten, we promote healthy eating habits through a varied, nutritious, and wholesome diet.Throughout the kindergarten day, we facilitate three meals where children, together with staff, experience a setting that offers great opportunities for learning in various areas, such as language development and interaction with other children and adults. Together with the home, we aim to help establish healthy eating habits from an early age.
SiO Kindergarten serves food in accordance with the dietary guidelines of the Norwegian Directorate of Health.
Many children enjoy their packed lunch. Therefore, one of the meals at our kindergarten is a brought-from-home lunchbox. SiO Kindergarten provides advice and tips on what a healthy lunchbox should contain.
All children at SiO Kindergarten are offered two meals per day – breakfast and a hot lunch. We receive hot lunches from MatiBox four days a week. On the fifth day, the kindergarten prepares the meal itself.
Vegetables and fruit are an essential part of the kindergarten’s diet and are served daily.
Students who has payed semester fee to SiO pays reduced fees for hot meals for their child.
Water adaptation and school camp
We regularly use SiO's pool facilities at Domus Athletica so the children get water adaptation in a safe environment.Every spring, preschoolers go to school camp for two nights and for many this will be a magical first journey on their own without parents.
Birthdays and events
Students often do not have space for large children's birthdays and other events at home. Therefore, we offer parents to borrow the kindergarten for free when something is to be celebrated.
From november 2025 we release a digital booking system for borrowing our kindergartens.
Also when you've finished studying
When you have finished studying, your child can continue in the kindergarten until they starting school.