Hello and welcome to Whitecote Nursery!

 A big welcome to Whitecote Nursery, we are sure you are going to love it here!

We have lots of exciting plans for the year ahead and we are going to have a great time together. We will be gardeners, nature detectives and minibeast finders. Mud kitchen cooks, sports stars, scooter and bike riders. Storytellers, artists and music makers. And adventurers, explorers and builders. Let's go and explore!

Staff

Mrs Stableford, Mrs Carlton, Mrs Myers, Mrs Ashton, Miss Toal and Miss Skardon

Nursery Sessions

Morning session: 8:45am - 11:45am 

Afternoon session: 12:15pm - 3:15pm

Beginning of the week sessions: Monday and Tuesday 8:45am - 3:15pm and Wednesday morning 8:45am - 11:45am

End of the week sessions: Wednesday afternoon 12:15pm - 3:15pm and Thursday and Friday 8:45am - 3:15pm

30 hours: Monday to Friday 8:45am - 3:15pm

Doors will open at 11:35am for the end of the morning session and 3:05pm for the end of the afternoon session.

Prices for Nursery Sessions are listed below:

• Full Day fee - £35
• Half Day fee - £19
• Session fee - £16
• Lunchtime fee - £3

Our Lunchtime fee covers the time period between 11:45am - 12:15pm. This fee will only need to be paid if you would like your child to attend until 12:15pm after any morning sessions or before any after sessions.

We do not provide children with a lunch and ask that all children are sent to Nursery with a packed lunch if they are staying for that session or a full day.

For more information and any enquiries please contact Mr Saville-Gill at the school office or call 0113 216 4800.

Our Nursery Classroom

Our Outdoor Area

Special visitors in Nursery May 2025

We were very excited in Nursery this half-term because five caterpillars arrived for us to look after. We watched them grow huge, then they formed themselves into chrysalises hanging from the lid of their home. The chrysalises were then placed inside the net ready for them to turn into butterflies. When we broke up for the half-term holiday we still had five chrysalises, so Mrs Stableford took them home to look after them. On Tuesday, the first three butterflies emerged, then another on Wednesday and the final butterfly emerged on Thursday. Unfortunately, the butterflies could not be kept in the net for the first day back at Nursery, so Mrs Stableford had to release them.  Look at the photographs of our amazing caterpillars and see how they changed over time. Watch the video of one of our butterflies emerging from its chrysalis and then see them fly away into the wild.

Pumpkin trail October 2024

Look at the fabulous pumpkins that the nursery children decorated for our pumpkin trail. We would like to thank all the families who decorated pumpkins and those who attended the pumpkin trail to find them hidden in the wildlife area. Everyone was really excited to find them