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Nursery

Please click here to make an application to our nursery. 

We are really pleased to offer 30 hours free childcare for pupils at Strathmore Infant and Nursery School from September 2025. The sessions and timings for what we can offer are as follows:

 

Wraparound - Breakfast* (Optional)07:45 - 08:45Current costs are £6 per session
Morning Session08:45 - 11:45Included within 15 or 30 hours
Lunch session11:45 - 12:15

Paid session - £3 with home packed lunch. Children in receipt of Pupil Premium will be offered free lunch sessions. 

An additional £2 hot meal option is available. 

Afternoon Session     12:15 - 15:15                               

Included within 30 hours.

The afternoon session is for full-time pupils only. 

Wraparound - After School* (Optional)

Until 17:45

Option 1: 15:15 - 17:15 = £12 per session

Option 2: 15:15 - 17:45 = £15 per session

* Please click here for more information about our wraparound provision and how to register your interest. 

 

Tour dates

Please see our tour dates for Nursery below.

You are welcome to attend any of these sessions, there is no need to book.

 

Thurs 30th Jan 10:30 - 11:30  

Thurs 6th Feb 17:45 - 18:45

Wed 12th Feb 10:30 - 11:30

Thurs 27th Feb 10:30 - 11:30

Mon 3rd March 10:30 - 11:30

 

Hitchin Partnership Admission Information for Local Authority Nursery Schools and

Nursery Classes 2025/2026

 

Nursery settings operate their own admission process.

Local authority nursery schools and classes within Hitchin form part of the Hitchin Partnership. In order to provide consistency and simplify the process for parents, the partnership has agreed a timeline for admissions and a set of over subscription criteria.

 

Hitchin Partnership Timeline for Maintained Nursery Schools and Nursery Classes 2023/2024

 

 

Autumn 2024

Hitchin maintained nursery schools and nursery classes will make nursery admission information available on their websites

Wednesday 29th January 2025

Applications open via school’s websites for Hitchin maintained nursery schools and nursery classes (online applications preferred)

Friday 7th March 2025

Applications close for Hitchin maintained nursery schools and nursery classes

Wednesday 26th March 2025

Offers made to parents (via the same method as application was made)

Tuesday 22nd April 2025

Deadline for parents to accept/reject places.

Continued interest offers will be made after this date.

 

Children will be offered a nursery place to start in the Autumn term of the academic year they turn 4 (falling between 1st September to 31st August). At Strathmore, we currently have 23 full-time nursery places for September 2025. We hope to extend this to 32 places if we are successful with our grant application. 

 

Please see www.childcarechoices.gov.uk to explore your 30 hour eligibility (this will need to be rechecked nearer to admission). Please note these spaces are limited and only those who are eligible for a 30 hour funded place can be considered.

 

The nursery is an integral part of the school. Should there be more applications than places, an agreed over subscription criteria will be followed. Please see below for the over subscription criteria. If an application is unsuccessful, you may request to go onto the nursery’s continuing interest list and as a space arises, the criteria will be applied again.

 

Hitchin Partnership Over Subscription Criteria for Maintained Nursery Schools and Classes for the School Year 2024/2025

 

Children with a Statement of Special Educational Needs which names the school will be allocated a place in accordance with section 324 of the Education Act 1996. Schools will also admit children with an EHC (Education, Health and Care) Plan that names the school.

 

Parents may state their preference as to which nursery class, school or centre they would like their child to attend in the years leading up to the child’s fourth birthday. However, if there are not enough places available, places will be allocated in the following order of priority:

 

a) Children looked after and children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or became subject to a child arrangements order or a special guardianship order).

 

b) A child ‘at risk’ (or the sibling of a child ‘at risk’) who is the subject of an inter-agency child protection plan.

 

c) Other applicants where the following criteria are considered to determine priorities:

 

1) Children for whom it can be demonstrated that they have a particular medical or social need to go to the school.

 

2) Children who have a sibling at the school (including, if an infant school, a sibling at the link junior school) at the time of application, unless the sibling is in the last year of the normal age range of the school. Note: the ‘normal age range’ is the designated range for which the school provides.

 

3) Any other children.

 

Proof of documentation to support any of the criteria above will be required.

 

If more children qualify under a particular rule than there are places available, a tiebreak will be used by applying the next rule to those children. If more children qualify under criterion 2 than there are places available, priority will be given to those who live nearest to the nursery as measured using Google maps straight line distance to the front entrance of the school. Where there is a need for a tie-breaker where two different addresses measure the same distance from a school, in the case of a block of flats for example, the lower door number will be deemed nearest as logically this will be on the ground floor and therefore closer. If there are two identical addresses of separate applicants, the tie break will be random.

 

 

Reception

 

Tours for prospective Reception children who are due to start September 2024 are now complete. Please contact the school for more information.

 

Applications for children to start in Reception September 2025 open on 1st November 2024.  

Please see  www.hertfordshire.gov.uk  (school admissions)  for more details, including how to apply.

All Reception children are allocated a full-time place from the beginning of the academic year in which they turn five  (falling between 1st September and 31st August).

 

In-year admissions

You can also apply for in-year admissions, if you have moved or you would like your child to go to a different school. You can visit the in year admission page by clicking the below link:

In year admissions – change school during the year | Hertfordshire County Council

 

 

 

 

 

Nursery 30 hours offer available from September 2025!
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