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We open Monday - Friday, term time only for 38 weeks of the year. Find our term dates HERE
We offer a flexible service where children can attend whole days, mornings only, mornings with lunch or afternoons with lunch or a mixture of sessions throughout the week to suit you and your child's needs.
Our fees are as follows:
Hourly rate - £6
Food:
Breakfast surcharge - £2
Morning snack surcharge - £1
After School snack surcharge - £2
Hourly rate applicable from 8am - 4pm in the following sessions:
Breakfast club - 8-9am
Morning Session - 9am-12pm
Lunch Session - 12-1pm
Afternoon Session - 1-3pm
After School Club - 3-4pm
All children are entitled to 15 hours free early years education per week from the term after their 3rd birthday until they start primary school.
Our patterns of delivery for 15 hours free early years education per week for 3 and 4 year olds can be found HERE
Some children may be eligible for 30 hours free early years education per week. Please click HERE to take you to the government website to see if your child is eligible for 30 hours of free childcare. Our pattern of delivery for 30 hours free early years education per week can be found HERE.
Some 2 years old are also eligible for funding before their 3rd birthday, called free for two funding. Our patterns of delivery for 15 hours free early years education per week for 2 year olds can be found HERE. Eligible children can start claiming their free for two funding at any point during a term. More information about free child care for your 2 year old can be found HERE.
To claim free early years education for your child, we need to have seen their birth certificate and have a completed parental declaration form. We issue these forms for completion at the beginning of terms 1, 3 and 5, they must be completed and returned by the due date. If not, then we cannot claim the free early years education for your child and we would therefore require payment from you. It is a requirement for funded children that a holiday form is completed if you need to take your child on holiday during term time.
Where free early years education does not apply, you will be issued with an invoice for the term. Payment is by BACS transfer (details are on the invoice) or you can set up a tax free childcare account to pay the invoice. This is a government initiative to help working families with childcare costs. Please click HERE for more information on help paying for your childcare.
If you have any difficulty paying any bill, please contact our treasurer in absolute confidence (trustees@staplepreschool.co.uk).
We can claim Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) and receive extra funding to help support your child's individual learning if you are on certain benefits or they have been in care. Please click HERE for more info. You can complete the form online yourself HERE (you will need our DfE URN number: 513468) or you can complete the early years pupil premium part of the parental declaration form. Staff will be happy to help you with this.
If your child receives disability living allowance (DLA), then we can apply for additional disability access funding to help ensure all their needs are met and they reach their full potential whilst at our preschool. In addition, every local authority must have a special educational needs inclusion fund (SENIF) to support early years education providers to meet the needs of individual children with SEN. Our SENCO's are happy to discuss both these types of additional funding with parents.
