Sessions
Breakfast Club - We offer a breakfast session for our preschool children. This allows you to drop your child off from 7.30am and we will provide your child with breakfast ahead of their day.
Morning Session - Our morning session runs from 8.45am until 11.30am, and there is an option to add our lunch session to this and collect your child at 12.30pm.
Afternoon Session - our afternoon session runs from 12.30pm until 3pm, with the optional extra of adding our lunch session starting their day at 11.30am.
Afterschool Club - This session runs from 3pm until 5.30pm Mon - Thurs. We offer an hours session until 4pm or a full session through until 5.30pm.
Wrap around Care for Alderbury & West Grimstead School - We provide an after school club for the children in our neighbouring primary school. The children will be bought to our door by their teacher at 3.15pm, with this in mind, the short session runs for an hour until 4.15pm, and the full session through until close at 5.30pm.
Early Close Fridays - On Fridays, we close a little earlier at 4.30pm, we run two sessions on this day, the one hour session, or a 4.30pm collection.
If these sessions dont work for you, please talk to us about what you need and we will see how we can help you.
Invoicing
We aim to provide affordable, accessible childcare for our local community. We pride ourselves on giving all of our children the opportunity to experience new things.
We will schedule your child in for their regular scheduled sessions, and where possible, with suitable notice we will always aim to be flexible by accepting children for additional 'extra' sessions. Invoices are processed at the start of each month, and we request these are settled within 14 days of receipt.
Your monthly invoice will be issued based on your scheduled sessions for the month, i.e. January invoice for January sessions, plus an extras for the previous month. Invoices are issued via email via our Famly app. You can then log in and see your account balance, invoicing and payment history. Additional sessions can be booked via Famly and you can also schedule planned absences or notify us of sickness.
We accept the 30 hours funding, and this can be used across any regular sessions scheduled between 7.30am - 5.30pm. We can not use funding for holiday clubs or 'extra' sessions as funding is pre agreed with the local authority at the start of each term, January, April and September.
Consumables
As a part of our promise to keep our childcare affordable and accessible, we do not charge for consumables.
Snacks are included within the hourly rate, regardless of your eligabiity for funding. This includes,
Breakfast - Toast, porridge, cereal.
Morning and Afternoon Snack - Fruits & Veggies, plus bagels/muffins/crumpets in the morning only.
After School Club Snack - Toast, Crackers, Breadsticks, Cheese and fruits & veggies.
Children are welcome to bring their own lunchbox or if they would like, we can organise a hot or cold lunch for £2.60 per day, this can be booked on a regular or adhoc basis and will be charged to your following months invoice.
Milk and Water is provided to all meal times (Except After School Club where we provide water only).
Cows Milk is provided free of charge once your child is 12 months old. We can provide a dairy substitue if your child has an allergy.
If your child is on formula milk we ask that you proivide this as we appreciate each family has a preference for brand. We also ask that you provide breast milk daily, in a steralised container, which is clearly named and dated.
We ask parents to bring their own wipes and nappies. Sensitive Suncream is provided free of charge, during warm months, unless your child has an allergy or particular brand they require then we ask you provide this,
In addition, we also provide a great level of additional activities using local company KidsLoveFit who come in weekly for a dance-exercise session and District Sports who also complete ball skills with us weekly. These are proivided free of charge.
Our Charges
Hare Club
This is our wrap around childcare for the children of AWGS, this can be scheduled in as a regular pattern or we usually have capacity for one off sessions should you need it. You will need to advise both us and AWGS that your child is scheduled to come over. A teacher will then walk the children over at 3.15pm. We offer three sessions, one hour (collection at 4.15pm) or the Extended session (collection at 5.30pm) for £13.50. We also offer the After-club session, so a child can come over after their school club at 4.30pm. This is charges at a rate of £5 per hour.. A light snack will be provided as part of this, and we have a range of crafts and activities suitable for our older children or we play games in the garden. This service is open until your child leaves AWGS.
