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BIG CHANGES TO FREE CHILDCARE COMING IN APRIL 2024

Childcare Choices: Get the help that fits your family, so you can juggle work and life
Thousands of families could be saving money on their childcare costs. But some simply don’t know what support they might be eligible for. The Childcare Choices website brings together all the existing childcare offers in one place, so parents can get the help that fits their family. This could be through Tax-Free Childcare, 30 Hours Childcare, or Universal Credit Childcare. Some families might be eligible to use more than one childcare schemes together and get the most out of it.
And from next year even more help is on the way:
• From April 2024, eligible working parents in England with children aged 2 will have access to 15 hours childcare.
• From September 2024, the 15 hours childcare offer will be expanded to eligible working parents in England with children between 9 and 23 months old.
• From September 2025, eligible working parents in England with children between 9 months up to school age will have access to 30 hours childcare.

Don’t miss out on getting the support you are entitled to. Visit the Childcare Choices website to check what offer you might be eligible for and sign up to our newsletter to get the latest updates about the childcare support expansion.

Typical Day

While each day is a unique and exciting adventure there are some familiar experiences that the children encounter every day. Children at Flying High Nursery enjoy a balanced routine of free choice and structured activities, which are specifically designed to support their physical, personal, social, emotional and educational development.

All sessions are planned thoughtfully by staff with the individual needs and interests of the children in mind and according to the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum and the Birth to 5 non-statutory guidance.  

A Typical Day at Flying High Nursery

​From 7.30am - Optional breakfast club
​8.45am - Welcome to our morning children
Start the Day Whole Class Activity
​9.15am - Focused curriculum teaching input.
Communication, Language and Literacy
Mathematics; Shape Space and Measures or Number
9.30am – Free flow continuous provision (indoor and outdoor)
Flexible snack where children have access to milk, water and a range of healthy snacks.
10.30am - Focused curriculum teaching input.
Communication, Language and Literacy
Mathematics; shape space and measures or number
11:00am - Free flow continuous provision (indoor and outdoor)
11.30am – Story time/ Sing-along
​11.45am Session ends for funded places

11.45am-12.30pm - Lunch

12.30pm - Welcome to our afternoon children
Start the afternoon focused activity
12.45pm - Focused curriculum teaching input.
Communication, Language and Literacy
Mathematics; Shape Space and Measures or Number
1.15pm - Free flow continuous provision (indoor and outdoor)
Flexible snack where children have access to milk, water and a range of snacks.
3.15pm - Story time/ Sing-along
3.30pm – Afternoon session ends for funded places
3.30pm onwards - Optional After school club sessions including snacks and afternoon tea for children staying later than 4.30 pm.
​6.00pm Latest collection time for children