Located at:
St Joseph's RC JMI School
Great Hadham Road
Bishops Stortford
Hertfordshire
CM23 2NL
Phone: 07720 948441

Opening times:
Monday - Friday 9.00am - 12.00am & 12.45pm - 3.15pm.
There is also a Lunch Club.
We also offer the full 15 hour flexible entitlement to all our funded 3/4 year olds.

Costs: £ 8.50 Per session.

St Joseph's Pre-School has been running for nearly 30 years and is a member of the Pre-School Learning Alliance. The Pre-School is managed and led by Anne Jarrett and Nicola Murray. All managers and staff are extremely well qualified and possess a wealth of experience. We work as a highly motivated and dedicated team, ensuring your child receives the highest quality childcare available.

We aim to provide for every sort of play experience, for example;

• Natural play materials: sand, water, play dough, bricks and blocks.


• Imaginative and creative play: (Role play) home corner, dressing up box, painting, chalking and crayoning.


• Manipulative skills: Constructional and educational toys, jigsaws, use of scissors, glue, pencil control and co-ordination. Outdoor play and PE sessions.


• Musical appreciation: Singing, action songs, nursery rhymes, use of musical instruments and music and movements.


• Problem solving: Basic number work through play materials, adding and subtracting through selected number songs and counting songs.


• Communication: We hope to actively encourage self-confidence in the child and develop linguistic vocabulary to allow for freedom of expression. Book corner, story time and library books.

The Pre-School is subject to regular Ofsted inspection. To see our latest inspection please visit the Ofsted website.

(Information taken from the Herts Direct website : www.hertsdirect.org)