Funding, Fees, Terms and Conditions

From the beginning of the school term following your child's 3rd birthday, they are entitled to 15 hours of free Early Years Education (EYE) funding, during school term time. Some families may be eligible for 2 year funding from their 2nd birthday. Working parents may be eligible to apply for 30 hours EYE funding - please contact Hordle Explorers Nursery for further information. 

We welcome children to attend nursery who wish to attended over and above your funded hours, by paying for any additional hours. Our current hourly rate os £7.50 (rates appliable from September 2023)

Children are eligible to join Hordle Explorers Nursery from the half term after their second birthday. 

For guidance on 15 hours EYE Funding and to find out if you are eligible for up to 30 hours EYE Funding please visit the Government website:

Help paying for childcare for 3 and 4 year olds

To find out if you are eligible for 2 year old funding click HERE

Please note: you will need to re-check your eligibility for 30 hours EYE Funding at least every 3 months.  Children are eligible for 570 hours Universal funding per year with those eligible for 30 hours able to claim an additional 570 per year. Any hours exceeding this will be charged at our standard hourly rate and is invoiced termly. 

Tax Free Childcare

You can get up to £500 every 3 months (£2,000 a year) for each of your children to help with the costs of childcare with the new Tax Free Childcare Government scheme.

If you’ve already registered, you can sign in to your childcare account.

If you get Tax-Free Childcare, the government will pay £2 for every £8 you pay your childcare provider. This is paid via an online childcare account that you set up for your child and payments can be made directly to us from this account. 

You can get Tax-Free Childcare at the same time as 30 hours free childcare if you’re eligible for both.

For more information and to apply visit Tax Free Childcare

Terms and Conditions

Please click HERE to see our nursery terms and conditions (Academic Year 2022-23)

Please click HERE to see our nursery terms and conditions (from September 2023)

Admissions Policy

After returning your application form to us, a non-refundable deposit of £30 will be required before we can proceed with your application. Once received, your child will be held on our waiting list until your chosen start date. In line with our Admissions policy, we allocate spaces 2 terms in advance and therefore would be in contact to ask for your chosen sessions, 2 terms prior to your child's start date (for example if you wish for your child to start in September, we would contact you in January to begin this process).

Please click HERE to see our nursery Admissions policy for 2022/23

Important changes to our School Admissions Policy from September 2024

Further to a recent consultation carried out in January 2023, we can now confirm that the following addition to our oversubscription criteria has been applied and will come into effect for September 2024 Year R applications:

Criteria 8) Children who, at the time of application, attend Hordle Explorers' Nursery for a minimum of 15 hours per week.

This means that 'out of catchment' children who attend Hordle Explorer's Nursery will have a higher chance of securing a place at the school than out of catchment children. No other children are affected by this change.  

This new policy will come into effect for pupils applying for a YR place with us from September 2024 (date of birth between 1st September 2019 - 31st August 2020). 

Children must be on role at Hordle Explorers Nursery by October 31st of the previous year to be eligible to be considered for admission into the school based upon this criteria. 

For full details of the policy please visit the admissions page of our school website.