Nursery
NURSERY
WELCOME TO ST BERNARD’S NURSERY
We’d like to introduce you to our Nursery Team.
Mrs Cooke -Class teacher
Miss Thomas-Learning Coach
Mrs Jenkins-Learning Coach
Mrs Dobson-Learning Coach
OUR VISION AND MISSION
- treating each child as unique;
- providing high quality care and education for children aged 2 – 4 years;
- designing an environment that is welcoming, safe and stimulating;
- working in partnership with parents to help children to learn and develop;
- offering children and their parents a service that promotes equality, values and diversity.
SESSIONS
OPENING HOURS FROM SEPTEMBER 2024
Nursery will be open to children from 8.45 to 3.15 (am session: 8.45-11.45./pm session: 12.15-3.15).
2-year-olds can attend a morning or afternoon session. (If your child is in receipt of 30hrs a full day can be offered)
Each session costs £13.50.
If all funded hours have been used a lunch session at £1 per day is chargeable (please see chargeable extras below) – children in receipt of Early Years Pupil Premium will be exempt from paying this.
FUNDING
We offer funded places for children 2 and over with both 15 & 30 hours entitlement.
Please see the table below which shows the deadlines for applying for codes. If your code is not valid on the date below, we cannot apply for funding in that term.
If your child starts part way through a term, we will not be able to apply for funding until the new term starts.
We advise parents to keep up to date with the changes to funding as new legislation is brought out all the time. You can find this at Best start in life -Gov website
Food and milk hope for under 4s
CURRICULUM
Please follow this link to read about our nursery curriculum. Nursery Curriculum
APPLYING FOR A NURSERY PLACE
To arrange a tour of our nursery and a chat with staff, please contact the school office on 0151 355 2047.
We are looking forward to meeting you!
