St Mary’s Middlewich - proposal to extend the age range

Full day-care nursery provision in local area has been provided by third-party private providers. There has been keen interest from parents looking for wrap around care and nursery places at St Mary's. At the moment, parents from St Mary's use childcare providers Kids Planet and Little Learners provision and childcare. School age pupils are dropped off by mini-bus in the morning and are picked up at the end of the day. Nursery aged siblings continue to use the above childcare providers as St Mary's does not offer this facility at present. 

It is proposed to permanently change the age range of St Mary's Catholic Primary School from 4-11 to age 3-11, to take effect from 1 January 2025.

This will be an amendment to the existing early education provision on site in order to ensure the best possible transition from Early Years Foundation Stage into the main school. The proposed number of admissions into the maintained nursery will be capped at 10 nursery places initially but as demand increases, school will expand capacity to match demand. The final number of pupils will be capped at 26.

• Consultation document (PDF, 200KB)
• St Mary's Equality Impact Assessment (PDF, 407KB) 

Consultation Closed- 11 October

All feedback received by the deadline of 11 October will be collated and a report will be presented to the Council's Children and Families Committee in November for them to make a decision on the proposal.