A number of planned activities will be on offer. These will vary from day to day and week to week. Activities may include opportunities to complete homework, reading and use of the library, use of the computer suite, games in the main hall, cooking, painting, drawing and craft, board games, activities on the field or playground, and music.

The booking, payment & administration of the breakfast & after school clubs is outsourced to Childcare Bookings for Schools. If your child currently attends our school then please follow this link to register and book a place https://st-nicolas-mary.cbfs.uk/

If your child is due to start school in September, please see the Childcare Bookings New Starter letter on the New Parents and Carers Page with instructions for registering interest.

Please see the FAQs information from Childcare Bookings at the bottom of the page.

If you have any questions, or difficulties navigating the online booking system, please contact Childcare Bookings for Schools (our partner for any administration, booking and finance aspects of our wraparound care) directly:

• Via phone: 01444 523335
• Via email: stnm@cbfs.uk

Their office operates between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday, all year round (including the school holidays).

The Ministry of Defence has announced that after a series of successful pilots, wrap around childcare (WAC) will be available to all eligible Service personnel in the UK from autumn 2022.

Service personnel can apply for up to 20 hours per week, term time only (39 weeks per year) of wraparound childcare funding for 4 to 11-year-old children attending before and after school clubs in the UK. To be eligible, the Service person and their partner, or a sole parent in a lone parent family, must be in paid employment, or re-starting work within the next 31 days, earning a weekly income equivalent to 16 hours at the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage.

Funding can be used with any Ofsted approved (or equivalent) childcare setting, however the childcare provider must be able to accept payments from Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) accounts and a TFC account must be set up for each child that they want to claim funding for. To find out more, including more information around the eligibility criteria, please read these FAQs.

The school office is manned from 8.00am until 4.30pm, alternatively please call the clubs directly on 07849 643675.

A minimum of two staff, employed by the school, will be responsible for the club each day. Typically this will be Teaching Assistants who know the children in the school very well.

The clubs have a strict code of conduct as follows. Children must:

• Respect staff and other children
• Look after school and club property
• Keep to normal school rules and expectations

Children who break this code of conduct will either be given a warning or banned from the club. There will be no refund and no right of appeal.