Term Dates

BIG CHANGES TO FREE CHILDCARE COMING IN SEPTEMBER 2025

Childcare Choices: Get the help that fits your family, so you can juggle work and life

Early Years childcare support is expanding.

From September 2025, 15 hours for working families with children under 3 will expand to 30 hours, meaning eligible working families can now apply for 30 hours of childcare from the term after their child turns 9 months until they reach school age.

If you currently receive 15 hours for working parents, just reconfirm as usual and the code will work for the 30 hours offer in September, providing you remain eligible.

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:

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 their newsletter to get the latest updates about the childcare support expansion.

Please come into our branch and speak to our managers if you need help applying for funding.

We are open from 7:30am – 6pm each weekday. Both of our settings are open term time only with effect from 28th April 2025. Funded places are for 38 weeks of the year.

Please see our Fees page as to how your 30 hours can be used and the cost of additional hours should you need them.

Term dates for the Year 2024 to 2025

Autumn Term 2024

Term Starts: Monday 9 September 2024
Half-term: Monday 28 October 2024 to Friday 1 November 2024
Term ends: Wednesday 18th December 2024

Spring Term 2025

Term Starts: Monday 6 January 2025
Half-term: Monday 17 February 2025 to Friday 21 February 2025
Term ends: Friday 11 April 2025

Half-term: Monday 14 April 2025 to Friday 25 April 2025

Summer Term 2025

Term Starts: Monday 28 April 2025
Half-term: Monday 26 May 2025 to Friday 30 May 2025
Term ends: Friday 18 July 2025