Big Nursery Provision

Children’s names can go on to the contact list at any time. They will be offered a funded place in the term following their third birthday, subject to availability. We aim to give a minimum of three terms with us before a child transfers to primary school. Priority is given to a percentage of children who have particular needs.  Children are offered either 15 hours or 30 hours a week of government funded provision, which can be taken in a variety of ways.

How do we manage enrolment for 3+ Big Nursery, for children who already attend 2+
Little Nursery?
When children have enrolled in the 2+ Little Nursery and been attending for half a term, we
will ask parents to choose whether they would like to continue with their existing hours
(which may be 15 or 30 hours per week) when they join 3+Big Nursery. If children attend for
15 hours in the 2+ Little Nursery we will offer the opportunity to increase their hours to 30
hours in the 3+ Big Nursery.
For families entitled to ‘Funding for Working Families’ they will be entitled to 30 funded
hours.
At 3+ all children are entitled to 15 hours of free Universal Funding.
Families who are not entitled to ‘Funding for Working Families’ can choose to pay for an
additional 15 hours.
In Big Nursery, the cost of an additional 15 hours is £78.30 per week.
We add the 2+ children’s choice of attendance patterns to our pupil numbers 3+Yearly
Plan. Children are considered as 3+children the term after their 3rd birthday.

How will we manage enrolment for 3+ Big Nursery, for children who do not attend 2+
Little Nursery?
We admit children to 3+ Big Nursery the term after they turn three.
Each termly cohort has a specific number of spaces available.
If, after planning for the attendance pattern of the 2+ Little Nursery children on our 3+Yearly
Plan, we have spaces left for additional children, we look to offer spaces to children on our
contact list. Each term we will work on the cohort of children that are turning 3 years old, to
enrol children to join the school at the beginning of the term after they turn three.
We will contact families to offer spaces in the order that they appear on the contact list.
Those parents who have been on our contact list longest are asked first. We then work
down our contact list, offering spaces until we are full.
At 3+ all children are entitled to 15 hours of free Universal Funding.
Children joining the school at age 3+ will be offered 15 hours only, with a choice of two
attendance patterns:
Children attend: Beginning of the week ,
Monday 8:50am to 2:50pm,
Tuesday 8:50am to 2:50pm,
Wednesday 8:50am to 11:50am. OR
End of the week,
Wednesday 11:50am to 2:50pm,
Thursday 8:50am to 2:50pm,
Friday 8:50am to 2:50pm.
As spaces begin to fill, we may not be able to offer all the options above.
Morning spaces are offered to parents if the parent, or school staff feel that a child could not
cope with a 2 ½ day space, or has a special educational need, or a medical need where a
morning space would be more appropriate.

Please email office@willownursery.co.uk or telephone 01582662600 to join our contact list.