College Green Nursery School & Services
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Please check below for our Pre-School Offer for September 2025.
Our Pre-School cares for children aged 3 to 4 (the pre-school year). We offer several different patterns of hours. You will be required to put down your preference on the registration form. We cannot always guarantee that we are able to offer your preferred option.
Option 1 - Universal Free Entitlement (UFE)- 15 Funded Hours
All children who are aged 3 on or before the 31st August are entitled to 15 hours of Free Nursery Education (this is called Universal Free Entitlement)
- Your child will attend Monday 9am to 3pm, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 9am to 12pm
- ALL children accepting a Nursery place at College Green will have to attend ALL of these hours in order to qualify for their free entitlement
- Lunch is charged at a cost of £4.00 for the full day on the Monday
Option 2 - Additional hours to attend 3 1/2 days
This is made up of 6 additional hours over and above the Universal Free Entitlement
- Your child will attend 9am to 3pm Monday to Wednesday and 9am to 12pm on Thursday.
- Lunches are £4.00 per day (3 days) = £12.00 per week.
- Full weekly charge (including lunches) = £88.68 per week.
Option 3 - Additional hours to attend 4 days
This is made up of 9 additional hours over and above the Universal Free Entitlement
- Your child will attend 9am to 3pm Monday to Thursday.
- Lunches are £4.00 per day (4 days) = £16.00 per week.
- Full weekly charge (including lunches) = £131.02.
Option 4 - Additional hours to attend 5 full days
This is made up of 15 additional hours over and above the Universal Free Entitlement
- Your child will attend 9am to 3pm Monday to Friday.
- Lunches are £4.00 per day (5 days) = £20.00 per week.
- Full weekly charge (including lunches) = £211.70 per week.
Option 5 - 30 Hours Free Nursery Education
This is made up of an additional 15 hours of funded hours over and above the Universal Free Entitlement. Please check the government website for eligibility criteria - Childcare Choices.gov
- Your child will attend 9am to 3pm Monday to Friday
- Lunches are £4.00 per day (5 days) = £20.00 per week.
- You will need to provide an eligibility code obtained from HMRC.
- This code will need to be renewed periodically throughout the academic year.
Clubs package
We offer 16 places for preschool children to attend a clubs package. Please indicate the days you would like to access the clubs package by ticking the required days.
- This package will run from 8:15am to 9am and then 3pm to 4pm Monday to Thursday. There will be no clubs package on a Friday.
- The package is for the morning and afternoon session, drop off and pick up times are flexible within these hours but the fee is charged for both sessions.
- The clubs package will be added to your weekly cost.
- You must sign up for the clubs package for the whole academic year.
- It will not be possible to drop the clubs package element of your contract. It will be part of your preschool contract
- If you have 15 or 30 hours of free childcare you will have a separate contract if you require the clubs package.
- Breakfast will be served in the morning and fruit in the afternoon.
Priority will be given -
- To children who currently access extended hours in our Neighbourhood Nursery (subject to availability)
- We will follow the same admissions criteria detailed in our admissions policy (subject to availability)
*Prices shown are correct for September 2024, this includes the annual increment. Prices for September 2025 are in discussion and will be confirmed once approved by our board of Governors.
