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Our wonderful Nursery is a warm and welcoming environment where our staff capture the children’s imagination, promote curiosity, critical thinking and provide them with the strong and firm foundations to be life-long learners. At Fir Tree we offer them the best possible start through a stimulating, practical and exciting curriculum, rooted in excellent Early Years practice.
We have a 24-place Nursery which take children the term after their third birthday. Our Nursery has its own admissions procedure (please see below for our admissions policy), where we offer 30-hours funded places (subject to availability) for eligible families, as well as government-funded 15 hours provision. Please see how to apply for funding in document below. Our 15 hours provision is offered as three hours per day in either a morning or afternoon block. You can express a preference as to the session block you would like and we will of course accommodate where we can.
Nursery times are:
15 hours session timings:
Morning Sessions 8:30am – 11:30am.
Afternoon Sessions 12:10pm – 3:10pm
30 hours session timings:
30 hours government funded core hours: 8:30am – 2:30am *
Chargeable extended day provision: 2:30pm – 3:10pm
*Late collection will result in a late charge payment.
Children who are staying for 30 hours will need to provide a packed lunch each day.
We currently do not offer a breakfast club or afterschool club for our Nursery children.
If you are entitled to 15 hours, but would like to pay to increase to 30 hours then please speak to the school office about this. Please enquire at our school office for our current rate.
The children are at the centre of all that we do at Fir Tree. We firmly believe a child’s well-being and happiness is vital to their learning success and this is at the heart of everything we do.
From the first day children start with us, they can expect an outstanding education, and they will thrive in our well-planned learning environment. We endeavour to ensure all children have a wide range of indoor and outdoor experiences within our engaging and rich learning environments to support learning and development across all seven key areas of the Early Years curriculum.
We believe that high quality early learning experiences are vital as they lay the foundations for a lifetime’s love of learning as children learn best when they are motivated through a wide range of challenging and enjoyable activities. The children at Fir Tree make excellent progress through high quality interactions. We carefully build upon their existing knowledge and skills and use this to identify and support the children in achieving the next steps in their learning. We capture children’s learning through our online early learning journey of Tapestry.
If you would like to come and join our Fir Tree family, then please contact the school office to arrange a visit and receive an application form.
Entrance to Nursery has no impact on application to the main school; this is a separate admissions procedure administered by the Local Authority.
Mrs R Smith
Early Years Leader