Shepherdswell Academy Nursery

New! We are opening for 2 Year olds from Monday 28th April 2025

Session Times

Morning Session: 8.40am to 11.40am
Afternoon Session: 12.10pm to 3.10pm
All Day Extended Care: 8.40am to 3.10pm (including the lunchtime activity session)

Who can apply for a place at our nursery?

Our wonderful nursery is organised into morning and afternoon sessions, 5 days a week catering for 2, 3 and 4 year olds. Your child may start at our nursery in the term following their 2nd birthday and stay until they start the Reception year of school.

The Times for Twos project provides funding for up to 15 hours of funded childcare education for eligible two year olds. Children that are 3 are automatically entitled to 15 hours per week childcare funded by the government. We offer these sessions as five morning sessions or 5 afternoon sessions and ask that children are registered with us for 5 days per week.. In addition, we offer a number of 30 hour per week fully funded places, for those eligible and these are subject to availability.

Please check your eligibility at www.gov.uk/apply-free-childcare-if-youre-working

We also accept Tax Free Childcare as payment, for more information please contact the school office.

We offer these sessions as five morning sessions or five afternoon sessions and ask that children are registered with us for five days per week.

The nursery is open term time only. Term dates can be found in the Parents section of our school website.

Otters and Ladybirds

Currently, in Otters (our provision for three year olds) we offer 26 morning and 26 afternoon places.

Ladybirds, our new provision for two year olds, will offer eight morning and eight afternoon sessions. We are able to increase numbers to 40 across the whole nursery if there is the demand to do so.