Admissions:
Our nursery admissions occur 3 times per academic year, at the beginning of each term as follows:
Autumn Term – September to December
Spring Term – January to March
Summer Term – April to end of July
Please note that these terms do not exactly match the standard school terms, but instead follow the Early Years Funding terms as specified by Swindon Borough Council.
On requesting a place for your child, if you haven’t already, you will be asked to complete a Nursery Application form, Nursery Induction Pack, Data Collection form.
Our Nursery Induction Pack provides Liden Nursery with details about your child and of those who have parental responsibility and legal contact, together with details of those who have permission to collect your child from Nursery and of those who may be contacted in an emergency.
Our Data Collection form provides data for our school office to enter directly onto our systems.
Our parent contract is a contract between Excalibur Academies Trust, who own and manage Liden Nursery, and the parents or legal guardian (referred to as the parent) of a child that is enrolled at Liden Nursery.
Session Times:
Liden Academy Nursery is open Monday to Friday from 9 am to 3 pm during term time, with the additional provision of a breakfast club from 7:30 am to 9 am, at a cost of £5 per day. The daily sessions available as follows:-
| Nursery Breakfast Club | 7:30am – 9:00am |
| Morning session | 9:00am – 12:00pm |
| Afternoon session | 12:00pm – 3:00pm |
Please note that breakfast club must be booked and paid for in advance on MCAS, and is subject to availability – please refer to ‘The Nursery Day’
Fees
All standard nursery session fees will either be payable by parents/carers at a charge of £5 per hour (£15 per session), or alternatively, you may be eligible to Government childcare funding – please refer to Funding or Payment sections below, as appropriate.
Fees include all snacks but do not include lunch, nappies or wipes.
Late collection of nursery children from their class in excess of 10 minutes will incur a £5 additional charge.
Funding
All 3 to 4 year olds in England are entitled to 570 free hours per year. If this is taken in term time only it works out as 15 hours a week for 38 weeks of the year, but you can choose how to use the hours.
Find out more here
Your two-year-old child can get free childcare and early education if you get one of the following benefits:
- Income Support
- Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
- Income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
- Universal Credit – if you and your partner have a combined income from work of £15,400 or less a year, after tax
- Tax credits – if you have an income of £16,190 or less a year, before tax
- The guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
- Support through part 6 of the Immigration and Asylum Act
- The Working Tax Credit 4-week run on (the payment you get when you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit)
A two-year-old child can also get free childcare and early education if they:
- have special education needs (SEN) or an education, health and care plan (EHCP)
- get Disability Living Allowance
- have left care under a special guardianship order, child arrangements order or adoption order
Find out more here
Payment
Nursery fees will be invoiced monthly in arrears, requesting payment within 30 days of the invoice. Should parents have difficulty meeting the payment day, we ask that we are notified in writing so that we can come to some amicable arrangement. There are no reductions for any absences including holidays, medical appointments, hospitalisation. We currently prefer payment via BACs or the Government Childcare Grant Payment Scheme (CGPS),