Here is everything you need to know about Little Lenny’s Nursery at St. Leonard’s Church of England Primary School.

What we do in Nursery

In Nursery we learn through play. The majority of this is child-led learning combined with daily structured adult-led activities. These comprise of daily whole class activities: Phonics, maths and story sessions. Daily small group activities: creative, fine motor, name writing and personal, social and emotional activities. We also offer a range of 1:1 interventions for those children who require them. The classroom is designed to meet the needs of all children, encourage problem solving and support independence whilst promoting engagement, developing vocabulary and expanding children’s interests.

Our main focus in Nursery is to support your child’s learning and development, ensuring they are ready for life in school, they love coming to Nursery and developing a love of learning.  Our school vision of being inclusive, independent, inquiring and inspirational underpins all we do at St Leonard’s and Little Lenny’s.

We open our nursery term time only for 38 weeks per year.  We do hold a holiday club run via Funfest at the school in the holidays.  Please book with them directly. Our term time dates are published on our school website.

Session times

Morning sessions: 8.45-11.45.

Afternoon sessions: 12.30-15.30.

Full time sessions: 8.45-15.30.

Wrap around sessions are available from 7.30-9.00 and 15.30 - 18.00 for an additional cost.

We will do our best to accommodate the choices for sessions of all applicants and please ask if you have any questions regarding sessions and charges.   If you wish to buy additional childcare hours on top of the funded hours sessions are charged at £22.00. Breakfast club is £6.00, and After School club is £8.00.  Please state on your application form which hours you will use funded and any extra paid hours / sessions.  For paid sessions we accept parent pay, a range of childcare vouchers and tax free childcare codes.   If you are using a tax free childcare scheme the 12 digit reference number must be provided by email to bursar@st-leonardspri.lancs.sch.uk when a payment has been made with the date and amount and sessions applied to so this can be allocated. 

Key information

Uniform: Nursery children will wear an adapted school uniform comprising of a school logo PE t-shirt, navy/black jogging bottoms, trousers, leggings or shorts and a school logo jumper, fleece or cardigan.  These are available to purchase directly from school or via www.handprints.info, Bang Bang, or Smart School wear Preston.  Please name all school wear to help the staff to return to the correct child if left behind.

Water, milk and snacks: We ask that all children bring a water bottle, which can be refilled throughout the day. Children can sign up for free milk on the cool milk website. They will also receive a piece of fruit or vegetable each day and children can receive toast/snack for a small charge.  Please order toast from the office.  Please advise of any allergies on the form provided.

Lunchtime: Nursery children who stay for the full day can either bring a packed lunch or purchase a school hot or cold dinner, available for a cost and ordered through the office.

PE: Nursery will complete daily PE activities in the outdoor classroom and in Forest school.

Forest school: Nursery will access the Forest school weekly in Nursery. For these days, we ask that children have wetsuits and wellington boots in school to enable them to access Forest school in all weather. 

Communication: We love to communicate with you in Nursery, we love to hear about your child’s achievements and the milestones they have achieved at home. We appreciated any information you can share with us to support your child’s learning. We have a class blog on ClassDojo, direct messages on ClassDojo and a class Instagram pages. We also love to talk to you at pick up and drop of times and can make appointments for afterschool if you need to talk about something privately, this can be done over the phone or in person.