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Open Day 2024
Admissions 2025-2026
Open Days
Rivington Foundation Primary Open Week
Please join us for our Open Week: Monday 11th November to Friday 15th November.
See for yourself the great start that Rivington Foundation Primary School can offer your child.
Open Week – Book your place here.
Our maintained nursery is managed by our governing body and offers places for three and four-year-olds the year before they start school, but children may be able to go sooner if there are enough places.
Your child can get 15 or 30 hours of funded nursery care each week for 38 weeks each year!
The hours are normally divided up into morning or afternoon sessions on five days per week and can be used to incorporate our Breakfast Club (7:30am-School Start) and Late-Stay (3:30pm-6:30pm) provision. We will contact you with details of the session times for your child after a place has been allocated.
If your child turns three after 31 August 2024 and you wish to apply for January, April or September 2025 admission please email bursar@rivington.lancs.sch.uk to request an application form.
Before you apply
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Read the nursery admissions booklet, which contains useful information about the application process, including how places will be allocated, definition of home address and how late applications will be dealt with.
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Clarify any issues you are not sure about with School Leadership on 01024 696951 or email bursar@rivington.lancs.sch.uk.
Nursery Applications are available throughout the year . We can offer fully funded, flexible places for children from the age of 3, please come in and see us or ring the office on 01204 696951.
Early childhood education takes place in our Nursery, from 8:45am until 12noon for the morning session and 1pm until 3:30pm for the afternoon session with additional options for children with funding for 30 hours. Children can stay for a full day and have lunch with the remainder of the school – a hot lunch is available with an additional fee.
There are three intakes per year to the Nursery, this being in the term following the child’s third birthday.
Apply directly to our school office.
Children are allocated a place in nursery the term after their 3rd birthday:
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Autumn term- September (Children who are 3 from May – end of August)
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Spring Term- January ( Children who are 3 from September – end of Dec)
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Summer Term-April (Children who are 3 from January – end of April)
Currently all 3 year old children are entitled to 15 hours free childcare. Some children may qualify for 30 hours free nursery entitlement.
Financial support for parents to help with the cost of childcare is increasing.
Major changes are coming to make it easier for parents with childcare responsibilities to move into or take on more paid work. Starting from April 2024, existing childcare support will be expanded in phases. The changes are being introduced gradually to make sure that providers can meet the needs of more families.
This means that:
From April 2024, working parents of 2-year-olds will be able to access 15 hours childcare support.
From September 2024, 15 hours childcare support will be extended to all children from the age of 9 months to 3-year-olds.
From September 2025, working parents of children under the age of 5 will be entitled to 30 hours of childcare a week.
Like the existing offer, depending on your provider, these hours can be used over 38 weeks of the year (during school term time), or up to 52 weeks if you use fewer than your total hours per week.
Universal Credit
Furthermore, from 28 June 2023 eligible working parents claiming Universal Credit will be able to receive more financial help with their childcare costs, and additional financial support with upfront payments when moving into paid work or increasing their working hours.
Further information
For further information about upcoming changes to childcare support, visit the Childcare Choices Website
30 Hours Free Childcare Eligibility Criteria
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Parents expect to earn the equivalent to 16 hours at National Minimum or Living Wage over the coming three months.
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This equates to £120 a week (or c.£6,000 a year) for each parent over 25 years old or £112.80 a week (or c.£5,800 a year) for each parent between 21 and 24 years old and £56 a week for apprentices in their first year.
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This applies whether you are in paid employment, self-employed or on zero hours contract.
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The parent (and their partner where applicable) should be seeking the free childcare to enable them to work.
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Where one or both parents are on maternity, paternity, shared parental or adoption leave, or if they are on statutory sick leave.
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Where one parent meets the income criteria and the other is unable to work because they are disabled, have caring responsibilities or have been assessed as having limited capability to work.
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Where a parent is in a ‘start-up period’ (i.e. they are newly self-employed) they do not need to demonstrate that they meet the income criteria for 12 months.
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If one or both parents is a non-EEA national, the parent applying must have recourse to public funds.
A parent will not meet the criteria when:
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Either parent has an income of more than £100,000.
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If one or both parents is a non-EEA national and the parent applying does not have recourse to public funds.