Nursery funding - starting school

[Siennabear]

My DD starts school in September. Her nursery mentioned today that her 30 hours funding will run out on 19 August. Her birthday is the end of July. I’m really confused as my DS turned 4 in January but his funding ran till the end of August. They both do/did 2 full days a week. Can anyone explain this please?

Funding is done termly, and varies each year depending when Easter and Christmas fall etc. For me, it's 12 weeks (unstretched) this summer term so if Easter has fallen earlier than when you claimed for your son, then your hours may have been used up before end of August.

They stretch her hours over the whole year. I don’t understand it. But it has been a long day.

Yes but you're not there for the whole year (starts in April) so you can only use one terms worth.

So for instance if the term is 12 weeks x 30 hours, you have 360 hours whether that's stretched or unstretched.

That makes more sense. Thanks @GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat

The school will need to have enough funding left to claim the term time amount so most setting will only claim the funding available in a term rather than risk being out of pocket. In my borough the terms funding stretched workd 9ut at 17.5 hours through to end of August rather than the 22