Currently all 3 and 4 year olds are entitled to up to 15 hours of free childcare and early education a week for up to 38 weeks a year.

Some 2 year olds are also eligible for 15 hours for 38 weeks and some 3 and 4 year olds are eligible for 30 hours for 38 weeks per year.  

Full Day Care – 50 Weeks Per Year

At St. Paul’s Nursery, we offer day care nursery places for 50 weeks of the year for all ages (3 months to 5 years)

Full day:         8am – 6pm
Half days:      8am – 1pm or 1pm – 6pm 

To help parents paying fees we currently accept payments made through working tax vouchers and Tax-free childcare.

Funded hours

We offer FREE 15 hours to all 3 & 4 year olds (term after 3^rd birthday) and to 2 year olds for families who meet the eligibility criteria.

We also offer FREE 30 hours to 3 and 4 year olds for families who meet the eligibility criteria.

These hours can be used alone, as part of full day care provision or as sessional term time only places.

Sessional places – Term Time Only

At St. Paul’s Nursery, we offer sessional nursery places, term time only.

The ratios for these places are met by staff members who work term time only, between the hours of 9am and 4pm.  Therefore, the hours for these sessions are:

15 hours:      9am – 12pm  or     1pm   – 4pm
30 hours:      9am – 3pm     or     10am – 4pm*

Where families are eligible for funded hours these sessions are free.  A voluntary payment of 50p per week is requested to contribute to snacks and events e.g. Christmas presents, bouncy castles.

*For children attending for 30 hours dinner will be provided for these children at a cost of £2.00 per day.

Where families are not eligible these sessions can be paid for 

Optional extras are added per day for:

To increase hours to before 9am or after 4pm day care fees would be applied.  This must be agreed in advance and is dependent on vacancies. 

To help parents paying fees we currently accept payments made through working tax vouchers and Tax-free childcare.