Admission to nursery is not covered by Statute but is the policy for The Golden Thread Alliance.

Children are  considered for admission to our nursery classes from the age of 3.

Admissions criteria for allocating nursery places are as follows:

• Children in Local Authority Care or Previously in Local Authority Care
• Current Family Association
• Health, Social and Special Access Reasons
• A Child of Staff at the School
• Children Eligible for Early Years Pupil Premium
• Age

Note:

• To be eligible under the second criterion, the sibling must still be attending the mainstream school when the younger child takes up a place in the nursery.
• A place in the nursery does NOT guarantee a place in the Reception class of the mainstream school. Therefore a separate application MUST be made for admission to the main school.

How to Apply

30 hours of free childcare Fee Structure/Delivery Pattern

Oakfield Primary Academy Nursery is a sessional, term time only (open for 38 weeks a year) early years provision. Our session times are split into morning and afternoon sessions and we also operate a number of 30 hour places.

Universal Free Early Education

All children are eligible for 15 hours of free funding from the term after the child’s 3rd birthday. This can be claimed in 3 hour sessions as shown above.  We do not offer a compressed hour delivery pattern.

Extended Funded Hours (the 30 hour scheme introduced by the Government from September 2017)

Working parents (if criteria met) can apply for extended funding to cover up to 30 hours per week.

Our totally free pattern of delivery is 8:30am until 2:30pm. These spaces are very limited and offered on a first come first served basis. An additional session of 2:30pm-3:30pm is available at a cost of £7.50 per day.

This scheme is also delivered in the following way: 8:30am until 3:45pm (7.15 hours/mins per day) Mon, Tue, Weds and Fri and 8.30am until 2.30pm on a Thurs with an additional charge of £7.50 per day. This includes a school meal for each child.

We currently run both a breakfast and an after school club that Nursery children may attend once settled in, our current provision called The Hideout. Breakfast club is run at a cost of £4 per child, per day and runs from 7am until 8.30am. After school club is run at a cost of £7 per child, per day for the short session (3.30pm – 4.30pm) this includes a light snack. And £14 per child, per day for the longer session 3.30pm – 6pm and this includes a tea.

Please note, all of the above patterns of delivery are subject to availability.