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Acorns Nursery
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Thank you for your interest in Acorns Nursery.
In our nursery class, we aim to provide a happy, nurturing environment where your child can learn, develop in a creative, well resourced environment. We offer 15 or 30 hour places plus optional half day top up sessions and wraparound care from 7.30 am to 6 pm. We offer fully funded spaces or parents can pay fees if their child is not yet eligible for the funded hours.
We cater for children aged 3 and 4 years and have an experienced and highly qualified team, lead by our nursery teachers and overseen by the school's Early Years Leader. The team are specialists in early years education who are focused on ensuring your child is ready for Reception when they move on.
Acorns is in our Early Years unit with access to a large, enclosed outdoor area set in the 5.5 acres of school grounds. Acorns pupils have full use of all school facilities including a multi use games area, our Little Oak Farm, the Woodland library, and an all-weather track. Our curriculum is planned around the interests of the children and learning experiences are tailored to each child.
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Session Options, Funding & Payments
Our Nursery is open term time only. We offer 15 or 30 hour places plus optional top up sessions and wraparound care (for 3 years+) from 7.30am to 6pm. We offer fully funded spaces or parents can pay fees if their child is not yet eligible for the funded hours.
Nursery Session Options
- 15 hours - Monday 8.50am-3.20pm, Tuesday 8.50am-3.20pm, Wednesday 8.50am-11.30am
- 15 hours - Wednesday 8.50am-3.20pm, Thursday 8.50am-3.20pm, Friday 8.50am-11.30am
- 30 hours - Monday to Thursday 8.50am-3.20pm, Fridays 8.50am to 1.00pm
We also offer optional payable top up sessions, subject to availability, payable in half-termly blocks in advance:
Wednesday afternoons 11.30am to 3.20pm - £23 a week
Friday afternoons for 15 hours pupils 11.30am to 3.20pm - £23 a week
Friday afternoons for 30 hours pupils 1.00pm to 3.20pm - £14 a week
Funding and payments
Your options:
- 15 hours funded for all 3 and 4 year olds* (Click here for more information on Free Early Education funding)
- 30 hours funded for eligible 3 and 4 year olds (Click here for more information on 30 hour funding)
- 30 hours - 15 funded hours with a top up 15 hours paid for by the parent.
- Optional top up sessions as detailed above
We are registered with multiple childcare voucher providers as well as the government's Tax-Free Childcare scheme.
**When will my child be eligible to receive funded early education?
From April 2024 the government is changing the age at which children receive funded hours. Please have a look at the Childcare Choices website for more information: click here Eligible families may be able to claim 15 funded hours from the term after their child turns 2. At Acorns, we take pupils from age 3.
A Day at Acorns Nursery
A typical day at Acorns Nursery...
Applications and Visits for Prospective Parents
To request a visit, please contact us on school@wps.org.uk.
We accept applications on a rolling basis. Please note we have limited availability for immediate starts. If we have space available, your child is welcome to start at other times. For example, if you move into the area in October and would like your child to start straight away, as long as we have space available, they could start mid-term.
The admissions criteria can be found here.
If you have any queries or would like to arrange a visit to our nursery, please contact us on 01737 353120 or email school@wps.org.uk.
To apply for a place, please complete this application form. If you have any queries please contact us on school@wps.org.uk or call 01737 353120.
Starting at Acorns Nursery?
Reading and singing are vital to developing a child’s vocabulary and listening skills. Try to do some every day! Our nursery teachers have recorded lots of stories and songs for the nursery children to watch and join in with at home. You can find a list of links here.
Here are some independence skills that will be particularly important when your child starts in Reception, but it is never too early to start practising! Below is one of our children practising the coat 'flip trick' to put their own coat on.
We don’t expect children to start nursery with all of these skills, but they are very good things to start practising at home now. We will continue working on these skills with them once they start nursery and will celebrate every little independence milestone they meet!