Octopus & Starfish Clubs
For the Little Octopus and Little Starfish clubs please click here or go to Nursery page.
Octopus Breakfast Club and Starfish After School Club
Our clubs aim to provide excellent childcare for children who are full time in reception to year 6, in line with the ethos of the school.
Octopus Breakfast Club
Monday to Friday, 8.00am to 8.45am - £5 per session.
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 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 their classrooms at 8.45am.
Starfish After School Club
Monday to Thursday, 3.25 until 5.30pm - £9 per session and Friday 3.25 until 5.00pm - £8 per session .
Children will go straight from their classrooms at the end of the school day, or from their after-school extra curricular club, to Starfish Club. Drinks and a small snack are included in the session price. Drinks on offer will be water and squash. Parents can collect their child any time up until 5.30pm on Monday to Thursday and 5.00pm on a Friday. Children need to be collected from the back door, please follow the signs to the Rainbow Room and ring the doorbell.
Children must be picked up on time, no later than 5.30pm Monday to Thursday and 5.00pm on a Friday. 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 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.
Making a Booking and Payment
The booking, payment & administration of the breakfast & after school clubs is outsourced to Childcare Bookings for Schools. Please see the information from Childcare Bookings for Schools and FAQs at the bottom of the page.
Queries and system support
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).
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.
Contacting the Clubs
The school office is manned from 8.00am until 4.30pm, alternatively please call the clubs directly on 07849 643675.
Supervision
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.
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, six weeks’ notice will be given.