Nursery

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Introduction

Nursery class are taught by Miss Muldowney, supported by Mrs Herdman, Miss Harle and Mrs Downing.

Our Nursery provides a stimulating, fun and secure environment which allows children to flourish by learning through play. They will develop a love of learning and gain a strong foundation for starting school.

Our classroom and outdoor space aims to provide the best learning experience for all our children, whatever their needs may be. We pride ourselves on understanding how children grow, develop and learn effectively. We will provide creative, engaging, hands-on activities that foster resilience and a ‘can do’ attitude both indoors and outdoors.

Curriculum

We are committed to ensuring that our pupils are given the very best start to life, through educational excellence, to ensure we unlock the potential in every child. By prioritising our work in the early years we ensure a strong foundation for every child’s future well-being and success.

Our school has a highly ambitious curriculum which ensures that children are given the most important building blocks needed to ready them for education at KS1 and beyond. These cover all areas of learning and prioritise the important prime areas of development: personal, social and emotional development; communication and language; physical development.

For further information on the topics covered each term, please see our Nursery Curriculum Overview. Please also see the nursery guidance on ‘Little Wandle’ – the phonics and reading programme used in our school providing the foundations of a love of reading, language and phonics

Session Times

Current academic year – 2024/2025

Morning Session 8:45am – 11:45am

Afternoon Session 12:15pm – 3:15pm

Full Day 8:45am – 2:45pm

Wraparound Session 2:45pm – 3:15/3:20pm (small charge of £1.75 per day) This wraparound session enables children to be collected with their older siblings.

With effect from September 2025

Morning Session 8:45am – 11:45am

Afternoon Session 12:15pm – 3:15pm

Full Day 8:45am – 3:15pm (including lunch club)

Lunchtime Arrangements – children are invited to attend our lunch club, there is a small charge of £2.00 for lunch club (11:45am-12:15pm), children may bring a packed lunch or order a school meal. Please speak to Miss Muldowney (Nursery teacher) or Mrs Pattinson in the school office, to confirm lunch arrangements.

Additional Sessions – If your child is only eligible for 15 hours funded nursery provision you are able to request additional paid sessions, please speak to the school office to discuss availability.

Additional sessions cost £24.00 per half day (morning or afternoon session) or £50.00 for a full day 8:45 – 3:15pm (including lunch club).

Wrap around Care

Wrap around care is also available, Breakfast Club runs from 7:45am and Tea Time Club is available to 5:30pm Monday to Thursday, and until 4:30pm on a Friday. Please see Childcare Provision on our website.

We are able to accept payments for out of school childcare via Childcare Vouchers or the Tax-Free Childcare scheme. More information on the tax-free childcare scheme can be found at www.gov.uk/tax-free-childcare Our registration number is 148259. For Childcare Vouchers, if we are not on the list of your childcare vouchers account, we need to know the name of your provider so that our school can register to receive payments.

Uniform

We ask that children wear a practical and comfortable school uniform, this can be purchased from our current school uniform provider, The School Outfit, or from most high street shops/supermarkets. Pre-loved items are also available in school and our PALs (Parents and Little Ones) group hold termly pre-loved uniform swap sales. Our uniform consists of:

Navy blue leggings/jogging bottoms/shorts.

Light blue polo shirt & navy blue sweatshirt.

Trainers/suitable outdoor footwear with Velcro fastening.

Children should also come to school with a waterproof coat so that they can participate in all outdoor activities, whatever the weather.

Early Years Funding

We take children from the age of three in our nursery. Government funding for early years providers in England is delivered as follows:

15 hours universal entitlement for all three and four-year-olds.
Extended 30 hours entitlement for three and four-years-olds of eligible working parents.

Please see the links below for further information.

15 Hours Free Childcare

30 Hours Free Childcare