Our Nursery
Welcome to Ewell Grove Nursery
The nursery is an integral part of the wider Ewell Grove family, working alongside our Reception year groups and supporting children in taking their first steps towards being school-ready.
We follow the Early Years Foundation Stage framework in an engaging, creative, friendly and encouraging environment.
Our Provision
Our Nursery children follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum. This child-led approach allows for 'teaching alongside' as well as direct adult-led activities, such as learning to count, sounds and letters. Children follow the phonics programme, 'Letters and Sounds' (Phase 1).
For more information on the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum please click here.
Our Facilities
We have a range of ways to stimulate learning through the outdoors. We have a well-equipped outdoor space, just for our Early Years children which includes:
- mini trim trail
- stage & dressing up
- a mud kitchen
- bikes and trikes
- sandpit
We also have a wide range of construction material for children to explore. We seek to develop children's Mathematics and Language skills through this space as much as possible.
Session Options
Our Nursery offers 15 and 30 hour places. As you are probably aware 15 hours is free, to parents of 3 year old children, and it is funded by the government.
Whilst offering the allocated number of 15 hour government funded nursery places will take priority, if spaces allow, there may be an opportunity to offer 30 hours childcare.
This could be either offered to parents claiming 30 hours free childcare or parents who may want to fund the additional 15 hours themselves. The cost to fund the additional 15 hours is £93.75 per week.
The nursery offers three separate sessions. These are:
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Nursery Intake
Places for three/four year olds
All children will be eligible for admission to our nursery class in the term after they turn 3 years, although admission will be subject to an application being made and places being available.
Register for a nursery place
To register your child for a nursery place, please complete the application form below and return it to the school office by hand, post or email at office.ewellgrove@lumenlearningtrust.co.uk.
There are 2 versions of the form available - PDF & Word document. The Word document is editable and can be returned by email. We will then hold your application on file and contact you when places become available.
You can register your child for our Nursery once they have turned 18 months old. You may use the same application form but annotate it to show the year you wish to apply for.
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School Place Application Children in our Nursery are not automatically enrolled into the School's Reception class You can apply for a reception class place in the school on the Surrey Admissions website www.surreycc.gov.uk/admissions or you can call on 0300 200 1004. |
Nursery Admissions
Children start in the September after their third birthday.
Applications are accepted by the School Office a year before they are due to start. All applications must be received on the same date as main school applications in the year that they are due to start.
Places are offered as soon as practically possible after this. In the event of there being more than 52 applications Surrey's admission criteria shall be used.
The decision of the Governing Body, delegated to the Headteacher, will be final.
Once Nursery places have been allocated, any late applications after the published closing date will be put on a waiting list and considered, in line with existing main school policy, on distance from the School.
15 hour nursery places are offered using Surrey County Council admission criteria as a guide.
- First Priority – children with exceptional arrangements / special educational needs.
- Second Priority – children with siblings already attending the school upon entry to the Nursery.
- Third Priority – the child’s date of birth in relation to the curriculum year available, with the oldest children taking priority. The curriculum year runs from September through to the following August.
- Fourth priority - to children for whom the school is nearest (distance measured in a straight line from the address point of the pupil’s house, as set out by Ordnance Survey to the front gate of the school).
30 hours entitlement
- 30 hours childcare : for more information about 30 hours childcare and how to apply for your code.
- Childcare Choices Website: for more information about childcare choices or to apply for your 30 hour childcare code.