TCAT Nurseries - The Cornerstone Academy Trust

Cornerstone Nurseries

Cornerstone Academy Trust are consulting at Marpool and Clyst Heath Primary Schools on expanding our nursery age range to include 2 year olds. Please read our consultation document here.

Consultation on proposed extention to age range CHPS

Consultation on proposed extention to age range MPS

The Nursery Team delivers learning experiences and opportunities to the children following our outstanding Early Years Curriculum, which is continued through into the Reception class, providing progression matched to each child’s developmental stage from two to five years.

Meet The EYFS Team

Hannah James

EYFS PHASE LEAD

Amy Harris

DEPUTY EYFS PHASE LEAD

Molly Sobey

DEPUTY EYFS PHASE LEAD

TCAT Nurseries provide a wide range of enriching opportunities and experiences to encourage our school's youngest children to develop their natural curiosity and meet individual needs to further support development, both indoors and in our fantastic outdoor area.

Session Times

Our Nursery sessions run from:

8:00am to 9:00am (3 – 4 year olds only)
9:00am to 12:00pm (morning session)
12:00pm to 3:00pm (afternoon session)
3:00pm to 6:00pm (3 – 4 year olds only)

For safeguarding reasons, parents are not permitted on site between 9:00am – 3:00pm, so if you’re child is being collected at 12:00pm after the morning session, or dropped off at 12:00pm for the afternoon session, please come to school reception.

Lunch

Lunch times are part of the education of the Nursery children as it is a great opportunity to teach key personal, social and emotional development skills. The children are therefore able to eat their lunch at the end of the morning session at 11:30am (or they can eat at home with you), or at the beginning of the afternoon session when they arrive at 12:00pm. We offer Nursery children the chance to become part of our School Dining Club, where you can purchase in advance between one and five lunches per week. The current menu can be viewed here and we send out the next term’s menu choices at the end of the previous term. Alternatively, your child can bring in a packed lunch from home.

Charges

Our current hourly rates are:

£7.42 for 2 year olds
£5.50 for 3 and 4 year olds

These are charged for hours over the Early Years Entitlement, Extended Entitlement and 2 year old funding schemes.

The funded sessions available are:

15 hours of funding per week (for 38 weeks of the year)
30 hours of funding per week (for 38 weeks of the year)

You can check on the Gov website here or the childcare choices here to see whether you are eligible to receive help with childcare costs.

How to Pay

Invoices for any unfunded hours are sent out at the beginning of every term and are paid through our ‘Wisepay’ system, which is accessible here.

We also accept employer’s childcare vouchers and tax free child care payments.

Should you have any questions about funding or payments our admin team would be more than happy to discuss this with you.