Little Octopus and Little Starfish Clubs run on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for Little Fishes Pupils.  

Little Octopus Breakfast Club and Little Starfish After Nursery Club

Our clubs aim to provide excellent childcare for Little Fishes Nursery children who have turned three.  The club is run in line with the ethos of the nursery and the school on the school premises. 

Little Octopus Breakfast Club - £6.50 per session

Monday to Thursday, 8.00am to 8.50am 

Children who have turned 3 will be able to join our Little Octopus Club from 8.00am in the morning until the start of the morning nursery session at 8.50am.   Children can be dropped off from 8.00am at the Rainbow Room back door, please follow the signs to the Rainbow Room and ring the bell.  Parents should accompany their child and hand them over to a member of staff.  All children will be offered a breakfast which includes a number of healthy options such as cereal and toast.  Breakfast time will be a sociable time with groups of children sitting together around a table.  Children will go straight from the Breakfast Club to the Nursery at 8.50am.

Little Starfish After Nursery Club - £14 per session

Monday to Thursday, 3.25pm to 5.30pm  

Children who have turned 3 will be able to join our Little Starfish Club from the end of the afternoon session until 5.30pm.  Children will be taken from the nursery at the end of the school day to Little Starfish Club.  Drinks and a small snack are included in the session price.  Children may bring an additional snack or drink if required. Drinks on offer will be water and squash.  Snacks may include fruit or a plain biscuit.   Parents can collect their child any time up until 5.30pm.  Children need to be collected from the back door, please follow the signs to the Rainbow Room and ring the door bell.

Children must be picked up on time, no later than 5.30pm.  If children are picked up late, parents will be charged £3.50 for every 15 minutes later than the club closing time.

Activities on Offer

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

Making a Booking and Payment

The booking, payment & administration of the breakfast & after-school clubs is outsourced to Childcare Bookings for Schools.  Please see further information on our Octopus and Starfish Clubs page.

Wrap around childcare for Armed forces Families

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.

Supervision

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

Code of Conduct

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.

PLEASE NOTE: Parents may not use the school car park at any time.   If there is insufficient demand for the clubs, or the clubs close for other reasons we will provide a minimum of 4 weeks' notice.