Fees
Fees are charged as per below
Breakfast club 8am to 8.30 am
£5 with breakfast charged separately to funding
Session 1a 8.30 to 11.30
Funded and can be included in our All inclusive package
Session 1b 8.30 to 12.30
£30.00 per morning session unfunded with lunch hour £10 Included in our all inclusive package
Total cost £40
Session 2a 12.30pm to 3.30pm
Funded and can be included in our All Inclusive Package
Un Funded session @ £30 which includes our all inclusive package
All Day Session 8.30am to 3.30
Un funded £60 per day and includes our all inclusive package
Funded session 8.30am to 2.30pm and can also be included in our All Inclusive Package
Additional half hour 2.30 to 3pm charged @ £5
Additional hour charged at £10 per hour from 2.30 to 3.30pm
Extended day Depending on availability and sustainability currently only available on a Tuesday from September This includes a nutritious Pasta meal
3.30m to 5pm £15
All-Inclusive Service Policy (Consumables)
At HIGHLANDS VILLAGE PRESCHOOL LTD, we provide an all-inclusive childcare service that ensures all children’s daily care needs are fully met while they are in our setting. This service is included in the session cost and removes the need for parents to supply consumables and additional fees for outside extra-curricular educational lessons and special events, ensuring that every child has access to high-quality provisions throughout the day.
PARENTS ARE TO PROVIDE THE CHILDREN’S PACKED LUNCH FOLLOWING OUR STRICT HEALTHY EATING AND ALLERGEN POLICY
This all-inclusive service applies to both funded and unfunded sessions. For families using government-funded hours, this service is charged separately as government funding does not cover consumables. Parents may either pay for the all-inclusive package or opt out and provide all required items themselves.
Please click here to see our All Inclusive Consumables Opt in and Opt out Policy
CONSUMABLES AND ESSESNTIALS
Half day sessions Morning or Afternoon These fees are per week
Essentials – Nappies, wipes, Nappy sacks, sudo cream, sun cream, PPE £ 6.00 per week
If child is potty trained – Sun cream, Botty wipes, and nappy sacks for wet/soiled clothes £ 2.00 per week
Morning snack £ 5 per week (£1 per day)
Afternoon Tea £ 7.50 per Week (£1.50 per day)
EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES £8.00 Per Week
This includes Diddi Dance once a week, Sport School twice a week and Wild Fangs
ENHANCEMENTS – Book Bag with access to our Library, cooking and Oral health club £5.00 per half term
Full day sessions will include all of the above.
ANNUAL EVENTS THESE WILL BE CHARGED HALF TERMLY AS EXTRAS @ £5.00 per half term and INCLUDES
HALLOWEEN, XMAS PARTY, EASTER EGG HUNT, GRADUATION PARTY FOR LEAVERS,
THIS LIST IS NOT EXHAUSTIVE!!!!
TRIP TO HERTFORDSHIRE ZOO charged xtra in that Term
THESE FEES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE AND EXCLUDES
ANY BANK HOLIDAYS.
Fees must be paid for any absences due to illness or family holidays. If you wish to remove your child from the pre-school before the end of the term in order to go on holiday, the fees must be paid up to the end of the term as the place cannot be offered to another child.
Payments are due half termly in advance, if this presents difficulty, then it is acceptable for fees to be paid weekly.
Please be aware that failure to pay fees on time may cause your child to lose their All Inclusive Package, we will only give two weeks leniency.
The EARLY YEARS PUPIL PREMIUM
From April 2015 all early years providers who deliver Government funded early education will be able to claim the early years pupil premium for three and four year old children whose parents are in receipt of one or more of the following benefits:
• Income Support
• Income-based Jobseekers Allowance
• Universal Credit
• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
• Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
• the guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
• Child Tax Credit (provided you’re not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190)
Three and four year olds will also be eligible if:
• they have been in local-authority care for 1 day or more in England or Wales
• they have been adopted from care in England or Wales
• they have left care through a special guardianship order or a child arrangement order in England or Wales
If you are in receipt of any of the above, please speak to the Manager who will be happy to assist you in completing the relevant forms.
National data and research tells that children eligible for free school meals tend to do less well, for example in 2014 45% of children eligible for free school meals achieved the expected level at the end of the early years foundation stage compared with 64% of other children. The Early Years Pupil Premium will provide us with extra funding to close this gap.
The Early Years Pupil Premium provides extra funding for all children whose parents are in receipt of certain benefits or who were formally in local authority care but who left care because they were adopted or were subject to a special guardianship or child arrangements order. This means an extra £302 a year for each child taking up the full 570 hours funded entitlement to early education. This additional money could make a significant difference to us.
We can use the extra funding in any way we choose to improve the quality of the early years education that we provide for your child. This could include for example additional training for our staff on early language, investing in partnership working with our colleagues in the area to further our expertise or supporting our staff in working on specialised areas such as speech and language.
It is well documented that high quality early education can influence how well a child does at both primary and secondary school so we do want to make the most of this additional funding. You may be aware if you have older children that a pupil premium has been available for school age children and it has proved to have given a real boost to the children receiving the funding. We want to do the same for our early years children entitled to this funding.
30 hours Government funding
Please speak to the MANAGER with regards to applying for the New offer for working parents. Alternatively you may apply online at www.childcarechoices.gov.uk
Full Day Care
The pre-school's full day care session is Monday to Friday 8.30am to 3.30pm - Term time only, Excluding any Bank Holidays.
The children staying all day must be provided with a nutritious packed lunch by their parents/carers. All perishables will be kept in the fridge for freshness. All lunch boxes are to be labelled with your child's name. Should you wish for your child to have warm food, this should be placed in a food thermos and will be kept in the kitchen, please give the thermos separately on the lunch trolley. We shall provide the children with a snack and drink twice during the day, consisting of fruit, vegetables, crackers, toast and a variety of dairy produce.
Our policy is healthy eating so please refrain from placing crisps, nuts, chocolates, sweets and fizzy drinks in your child's lunch box. Yogurt's, fromage fraise, dried/fresh fruits, cereal bars etc, are all nutritious and delicious snack alternatives for your children. If your child has any dietary needs or allergies please let the play leaders aware of these so that other parents can be informed not to place these items in the lunch boxes. Please do not place nut based products in your child’s lunch box due to nut allergies. A Separate healthy eating policy will be given to parents/carers of children staying for lunch outlining healthy lunches.
Funding
TERRIFIC TWO’S, 9 MONTHS TO FOUR YEAR OLD FUNDING FOR WORKING PARENTS, UNIVERSAL THREE and FOUR YEAR OLD FUNDING –
The funding is offered the Term AFTER your child turns FROM 9 MONTHS TO TWO for Terrific Twos (15 HOURS) and working parents (UP TO 30 HOURS) (dependent on circumstances) and Funding is offered to all three and four year olds. The Government is providing funding for all 3 and 4 years olds which aims to give them free nursery sessions. However, in reality the funding does not cover the actual costs of running a pre-school hence why we have an All Inclusive Package
A separate funding letter will be sent out to parents explaining the funding and the costings of our All Inclusive package.
At Highlands Village Pre-school we pride ourselves in the quality of our staff and our staffing ratio levels are higher than the national average. Any compromising on staffing levels will affect the safety of the children and lower our standards. We also believe in providing the children with quality resources to enhance their learning and giving them access to small group teaching and extra-curricular activities.
The All Inclusive service includes Nutritious snacks provided by ourselves, a book bag and the administration of your child’s Tapestry Learning Journal and Paper Journal, which includes the reproducing of photographs, this Learning Journal is yours to keep once your child leaves. Extra-curricular activities offered by the pre-school which include Super star Sports, Sports School., Diddi Dance, Wild Fangs, Christmas party, Graduation Party and Children’s Summer outing. THIS LIST IS NOT EXHAUSTIVE. The Pre-school would be unsustainable and would have to close if the All inclusive fees are not met. Thank you for your kind considerations.
The maximum sessions that can be claimed for is five sessions per week. If your child attends less sessions, then the funding will be calculated pro-rata. If you would like to access your sessions over an all day session, then this is calculated as two session. We are offering three hours per funded place and the hours will be 8.30am to 11.30m and 12.30pm to 3.30pm. or 8.30 to 2.30 additional hours can be purchased. Parents are also required to sign a form confirming that their child is not receiving funding at another setting. If their child is attending another setting as well as ours, sessions will have to be confirmed at each setting so that there is not an overlap of funded places for your child.
Parents are required to sign a contract with the pre-school before their child is in receipt of the Nursery Education Funding
PLEASE APPLY FOR FUNDING @ www.childcarechoices.org.uk
Childcare Vouchers
We accept Childcare vouchers from a range of providers including Computershare Vouchers Services, KiddiVouchers and Edenred.
Tax Free Childcare
This is a Government childcare funding scheme. For every £8 you put in the Government will contribute £2.
You can get up to £500 every 3 months (up to £2,000 a year) in childcare funding for each of your children to help with the costs of childcare. This goes up to £1,000 every 3 months if a child is disabled (up to £4,000 a year).
Find more information here on Tax Free Childcare – GOV.UK
Eligibility Criteria
If you are working
Your income and/or partners income
Your child’s age and circumstances
Your immigration status
Childcare Choices
Childcare Funding for up to 30 Hours
The government has introduced new ways to help parents fund their childcare costs under a scheme called ‘Childcare Choices’. As your local nursery in Oakwood we are able to accept children under these childcare funding schemes. Many of our parents receive the Childcare Choicesgovernment funding and we welcome applications from parents entitled to this kind of funding.
Under the current Childcare Choices scheme there are two levels of childcare funding available to parents with young children – the 15 hour and 30 hour childcare funding schemes. These schemes are available to parents depending on their personal circumstances and the age of their children and are designed to help parents go out to work.
On this page you will find some brief information on the childcare funding schemes with links to further information on the Childcare Choices and Gov.uk websites where you will also find the application forms.
Childcare Funding Schemes
15 hours of childcare for 3-4 year olds the term after their 3rd birthday
15 hour funding scheme for 2-year-olds for parents receiving benefits
30 hours funding scheme for 9 months to 4 year olds where working parents may have their childcare funded to allow them to work
15 Hours Childcare Funding Scheme
The 15 hours childcare funding scheme is available to all families in England with children aged between 3 and 4 years old. It provides 15 hours of funded early years education childcare per week.
In circumstances where parents are receiving other forms of support, this funding may be provided for parents with children as young as 2 years old.
For families in England
Children aged 3-4 years
15 hours free childcare/early years education per week
30 Hours Childcare Funding Scheme
All children aged 3-4 years old are entitled to 15 hours per week, or 570 hours a year of free early years education. If the parents are living and working in the UK they may be entitled to an additional 15 hours a week (or 570 hours a year) of free childcare, providing a total of 30 hours per week or 1140 hours per year. This allowance can be used flexibly with one or more childcare providers.
The government scheme is intended to help parents that need childcare so that they or their partner can work. If your child is already in a full-time reception class in a state funded school, you will not be eligible for 30 hours free childcare.
For working families in England
Children aged 9 Months to 4 years
An extra 15 hours free childcare/early years education per week
A total of 1140 hours per year
Hours can be flexibly used with more than one childcare provider
Apply For 30 Hours Childcare Funding
For further information on both schemes, please refer to the two Government websites below.
Applications and further information can be found here:
GOV.UK – Childcare Support Through The Childcare Service
Further information on the London Borough Of Enfield – local authority website.