Fees and Admissions
Fees
*We review our Fees every April, with any increases applicable from the following September - providing parents/carers with 6 months notice of any changes.*
Our Voluntary Nursery Other Consumables and Additional Services Charges are applied to Government Funded Sessions only
We do ask that parents pay this voluntary charge to support us to continue our exceptional Nursery offer. Government funding is meant to cover the delivery of early education and care only. We do not receive any funding to provide anything beyond this. Therefore, we ask that parents make the voluntary contribution to help our Nursery meet the costs of our enhancements (detailed below). The voluntary fee will be invoiced to all eligible sessions.
This fee is £10 a day or £5 per half day for all sessions paid for by Government funded hours, including Universal, Extended and Expanded Hours.
Households receiving additional Government benefits will not be charged this fee. Please note - all adults within the household must be in receipt of benefits to be eligible for the fee to be waived.
Free, High Quality, Flexible Childcare:
Included in all funded hours and non-funded hours, settings are required by the government to provide ‘free, high quality, flexible childcare.’ Below is detail of how we do this:
- Qualified Nursery Staff with Enhanced DBS and Paediatric First Aid qualifications
- Named Key Worker for each child
- Annual summary and parent consultation about individual children's progress and development
- Information sharing between settings
- Opportunity to talk with staff at drop-off and pick-up times
- Access to our bespoke early years outside area
- Basic transition to and from other settings
- Mandatory Safeguarding and SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) support
- Resources and activities to develop each child's knowledge and skills across each area of the Early Years curriculum
Other Consumables and Additional Services Charges:
The following other consumables and additional services are also offered by our setting:
Consumables:
- Suncream
- Nappies, wet wipes and nappy snacks in the event parents/carers forget to provide these
- A range of high-quality, nutritious snacks and milk (or water)
Additional Services:
- Specialist Tuition including:
- Lift off to Languages
- Sounds Write sessions
- Yoga and wellbeing activities
- Access to additional specialist input:
- School SENDCo (in addition to Level 3 Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Co-ordinator for Nursery)
- Support and advice with paperwork e.g. SEND, Social Care etc.
- Potty training advice and support
- Wellbeing support and advice for parents/carers
- Weekly monitoring and support of the provision and planning by external Early Years specialist to ensure an above-average, bespoke, quality curriculum and service
- Additional activities:
- Linked to the local community e.g. Church services (requiring additional staffing)
- Whole school events that Nursery are invited to e.g. Sports Day, Children's Mental Health Week activities, Fundraising Fun Day (requiring additional staffing)
- Other services:
- Books to borrow for home
- Online Learning Journal (provided in digital copy once children leave the setting/complete the Early Years curriculum)
- Bespoke, personalised, transition programme to our Reception Class
N.B. We are currently working on an Other Consumables and Additional Services Charges template to break down this offer into individual costs.
Non-funded hours fees:
From September 1st 2025, Acorn Nursery Fees are:
Children under 3 years - £9.50 per hour
Children over 3 years - £8.00 per hour
Lunchtime supervision fee - £7.25
The Lunchtime supervision fee is not applicable to those children who stay all day as part of their 15 or 30 hours funding.
Please click here to find out our fees for our FunZone breakfast and after school club.
Acorn Nursery Terms and Conditions
On completing a booking form you are agreeing to your child to attend the Acorn Nursery Class on those sessions stated. Please be advised that the booking form is a contract between yourselves and Acorn Nursery Class and payments are non-refundable under any circumstances eg. Holidays, sick days.
Additional Days
If you require any additional sessions please talk to the Nursery team in the first instance. If there is availability, you will be able to then book and pay for the agreed session using the School Money System.
Admissions
The Acorn Nursery Admissions Policy can be found here.
Funding
Eligibility:
From the term following their third birthday, all children are entitled to up to 15 hours each week free education.
Children from the term following their 3rd birthday can access:
- full time provision of which 15 hrs per week is funded and extra hours charged at £5.65 per hour
- full time provision of which up to 30 hours per week is also funded if parents meet the following criteria;
- Both Parents are working or one parent working in lone parent families. This is defined as earning the equivalent of 16 hours per week on national minimum wage.
- Earnings are under £100,000 each.
Or you may also be eligible if:
- Both parents are working and in receipt of tax credits/universal credit
- Both parents are employed but one or both are temporarily away from the workplace.
- Maternity/paternity leave
- Receiving statutory sick pay
- Receipt of carers allowance
- One parent is disabled
If you are unsure if you are eligible or wish to claim any additional hours over the standard 15 hours, please visit the following website: www.childcarechoices.gov.uk.
It is the parents responsibility to ensure they claim for any additional hours through this website, passing on the unique code to us (the provider) and renewing the information EACH TERM on the website. You will need to reapply for eligibility by the end of the term before the term you are claiming for.
At the beginning of each term, parents will be asked to complete a funding form in order for the school to claim the funding. Not obtaining a code each term will lead to being charged for the additional hours.
At the beginning of each term you will need to state the hours that you require for the whole term. If you then wish to increase your hours during the term you will need to pay for them as we cannot then claim the funding.
Funded hours cannot be used for Breakfast Club, the Lunchtime Supervision Fee and/or After-school Club from 1st September 2025.
Children under 3 can access:
- full time provision paid for by parents charged at £9.50 per hour until 3 years old, when you will be charged £8.00 per hour.
Administration – Forms and Policies
Acorn Nursery Class adheres to the Schools policies. These are available for parents to read and are available online here link to policy page.
By signing up to Acorn Nursery, all Parents/Carers also agree to our Terms and Conditions which can be found here:
Acorn Nursery Terms and Conditions
All Acorn Parents must complete the New Admissions forms, which can be found here and also below:
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