NURSERY CLASS

MALLARDS

Mallards is a long-established Nursery Class led by an experienced, fully qualified teacher. Mrs Taylor has extensive teaching experience and a real passion for teaching in the early years.  Our nursery is very much part of the wider school and the children join in with key events and celebrations throughout the year.

We have 42 places available with a maximum of 21 children in any single session. 

Our morning sessions run from 8:30 to 11:30 and our afternoon sessions run from 12:00 to 15:00.  Our lunch sessions run from 11:30am to 12:00pm. 

For security management, drop-off times are 08:30 or 12:00 and pick-up times are 11:30 or 15:00.

We offer the Universal Entitlement of 15 funded hours and we also offer the Working Parent Entitlement (WPE) of 30 hours for those who qualify. 

All sessions, and our lunch session, can be included in funded hours (if entitlement is sufficient) OR charged at our standard rates.

For additional sessions that are not covered by the Universal Entitlement or Working Parent Entitlement, charges (from September 2025) are £19.50 per 3-hour session and £3.25 for our lunch session.

For children who attend five full days a week, this equates to 32.5 hours and therefore exceeds the 30 hours entitlement of funding. An additional charge would be payable and, at current prices, this would be £16.25 per week.

For children who attend the maximum number of funded hours (where eligible for WPE), to avoid paying additional charges, pick-up would need to be at the end of a morning session on one of the days.

Parents are asked to provide a healthy packed lunch for their children who attend the lunch session.  During the morning and afternoon sessions, a healthy snack of fruit or vegetables is provided free of charge.

Please contact the school office on 01491 836408 or email office@st-nicholas.co.uk to request a registration form, or download one - see below.   Our Nursery Admissions Policy can also be found below.  This includes details of how nursery places are allocated when more applications are received than there are places available.

Please note that the process of applying for a place in our nursery class is separate to that of applying for a place in school for the Reception year.