Admissions
Nursery hours
From September 2025 all eligible working parents will have access to 30 hours funding for children from 9 months up to school age:
https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2024/04/free-childcare-how-we-tackling-the-cost-of-childcare/
We have worked with the local authority to develop our funding offer. Little PAWS Nursery will be open 48 weeks of the year. For children with 30 hours funding this will be stretched across the 48 weeks providing 24 funded hours per week. For children accessing 15 hours funding, sessions will be offered term time only.
Although we plan to open fully from 8th September 2025, we hope to be able offer some settling in sessions for new starters during the week before. In relation to the 0-2s there may be a slightly later start date due to the Ofsted registration.
For the 2025/26 academic year, the four weeks we anticipate being closed will be October half term (27th to 31st October) and the school Christmas holiday (22nd December to 2nd January) along with a further week in the summer holiday. This gives us time to undertake any outstanding refurbishments.
Sessions and Fees
Following the most recent government guidance around nursery fees, we have revised our earlier session times and can confirm our initial fees. We will review our fees every 6 months in line with our booking policy.
Example 1: You are entitled to 15 hours funding per week, you can book 5 EYEE sessions a week with no fee. For example: Monday 09.00-12.00 and 12.00-15.00, Tuesday 09.00-12.00, Wednesday 12.00-15.00 and Friday 09.00-12.00. If you provide your own snacks, lunch, wipes and suncream there would be no fees to pay.
Example 2: You are entitled to 30 hours funding per week, this will be stretched across 48 weeks, therefore you have 24 funded hours a week, you can book 8 EYEE sessions a week with no fee. Additional sessions / hours outside of the funded session will be charged. For example: You have a 3 year old entitled to 30 hours funding and book Monday - Friday 09.00-15.00 every day you will be charged: £40.05 a week. If you also opt for snacks and consumables to be provided by nursery, the cost of these in this example would be £7.50 a week.
Example 3: You have a 3 year old entitled to 30 hours funding and book Monday - Thursday 08.00-18.00 Full Day Sessions. This will cost £106.96 a week, assuming you provide all snacks, consumables and lunch.
Booking and registration
Parents are unable to register funded hours with us for 2–4-year-olds until mid-July 2025 - we will send a reminder out to families at the time. For parents wishing to use funded hours for 0–2-year-olds, this will not be available until our Ofsted registration is complete. For more information on funded hours and to claim your code please visit the Childcare Choices website: https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/15-and-30-hours-childcare-support
In the meantime, you can register your place with us by completing our registration and bookings form. For our first cohort of children there will be no administration charge beyond a £40 refundable holding deposit which will secure your place and be refunded when your child leaves the nursery (for funded only hours the holding deposit will be repaid within 6 weeks).
Booking and Registration Form: https://forms.office.com/e/r91bDCXnsg
Attendance at our school-based nursery does not guarantee a place in the school’s Reception year and parents would need to apply with the local authority in the usual way.
We may not yet be able to answer all of your questions but if you have something you would like to ask, please email the team at littlepaws@pevenseyschool.org.uk
