Welcome to St Mary’s Preschool

At St Mary’s Preschool we are a friendly, caring and nurturing setting, situated within the grounds of St Mary’s Primary school.

Our Preschool offers children an opportunity to have a high-quality educational start in life, learning through their own experiences and play. With passionate staff to support and ensure all children are able to develop and flourish during their time with us in Preschool.

We offer a balance of child-initiated and adult-led activities, encouraging independence, to develop their self-confidence and resilience.

Each child is allocated a Key person who will be there for your child throughout their session and carefully observe, assess and provide appropriate next steps to help your child’s development and learning.

Key information

Children can start from age 2 years until they start school.

Opening hours are 8.30am-3pm Monday to Friday - Term time only.

3-5pm is when our after-school club runs, where children from the main school can attend.  Pre-school children are welcome to stay and use their funded hours or pay extra for the session as and when they may need it.

Our session times are 8.30am-11.30am or 11.30am-3pm or your child can stay all day.

Funding

We accept 2-year funding, 3 - 4 year 15 hours funding, 30-hour funding and tax-free entitlements.

For more information please go to www.childcarechoices.gov.uk

Charges/ Fees-

2 year olds-£22.50 per 3-hour session

3-4 year olds-£19.50 per 3-hour session

2.30-3pm- 2 year olds- £3.75 per half an hour session

2.30-3pm- 3/4year olds-£3.25 per half an hour session

Unlike other pre-schools, we don’t charge for any extras on top of the funding. All we ask is for snack donations! 

If you would like to know more, please call Sian Hitchcock on

01983 562000 option 3 for an informal chat or fill out an application form to go on our waiting list and return it to stmaryspreschool@stmaryspri.co.uk