Welcome to Ward Jackson
Early Years & Tugboats Childcare
Early Years Teacher - Mrs Hunter
Early Years Support - Mrs Constantine & Miss Cass
The children in Early Years and Tugboats have settled in very well, we are so proud of them all! They are enjoying exploring their new environment and learning lots through play.
Our environment is fully resourced giving all of our children the opportunity to flourish in all areas of development.
The children participate in a range of daily adult led focused tasks and have lots of child initiated play both indoors and outdoors.
Take a look at our new environment!
Our Learning Environment
Our setting encourages children to be independent learners, to explore their surroundings confidently whilst supporting their overall development.
We provide our children with experiences that are of the highest quality and provide them with a rich and stimulating environment that nurtures their wellbeing.
Our recently developed setting with natural colour spaces helps us to create a calm, safe and secure place for children that helps them to feel free and concentrate when they need to. The children also have access to our beautiful, spaceous garden where they can climb trees and dig for treasure in our huge sandpit!
Our environment at Ward Jackson Tugboats is a place where children develop into happy, confident and independent individuals!
Our topic this half term...
'Who lives in a rock pool?'
This half term is going to be so exciting! We will be learning all about rock pools and the different creatures and plants we may find in them. We will be listening to and reading lots of stories about the seaside, collecting shells and stones and investigating the creatures that we would find in a rock pool.
Spring Term was so much fun!
Autumn Term
Times and Prices
We offer funded nursery places for 2, 3 and 4 year olds on a first come first served basis.
Some 2 years olds are eligible for 15 hours of Funded Nursery Entitlement.
Contact Kim Rowntree at the Hub on 01429 284284 if you think you may be eligible.
All 3 years olds are entitled to 15 hours of Funded Nursery Education from the term after their 3rd birthday.
Children of working parents/carers are entitled to apply for an additional 15 hours of funded childcare for 3 and 4 year olds.
If you think that you are eligible, you should apply at www.childcarechoices.gov.uk. See below for criteria.
In addition, parents can 'top-up' funded provision.
We provide a fully flexible service, we ask parents to give one week's notice for hours / sessions that they would like for their child for the following week.
Please speak to Mrs Hunter if you have any questions.
Session Times
- Morning 8.40am - 11.40am (3 hours- including snack)
- Afternoon 12.15pm- 3.15pm (3 hours- including snack)
- Full Day 8.00am – 5pm (9 hours- including breakfast, snacks and lunch provided by the school kitchen)
Fees
- Morning (8.40am- 11.40am) - £15.00
- Afternoon (12.15pm- 3.15pm) - £15.00
- Full Day - £40.00
- Breakfast Club £4.00 a session or £18.00 for the week
- After School Club £8.00 a session or £35.00 for the week
- Lunch
- £3.00 PER DAY if your child is eligible for Free School Meals (including school meal and care 11.40pm- 12.15pm)
- £5.00 PER DAY for those children not on FSM
(All prices are correct at the time of publication and some fees are subject to a late booking charge. Fees should be paid in advance. We accept cash, cheque, work place vouchers and government vouchers as well as student finance)
The criteria for the additional 15 hours of funded childcare for working parents/carers of 3 and 4 year olds are presently;
Age of child
As with the existing 15 hours entitlement for 3 and 4 year olds, children become eligible for the additional 15 hours at the start of the school term after their third birthday.
Definition of working parents:
- Both parents must be in work, as defined below, and for single parent families, the sole parent must be in work.
- For the purposes of this scheme, 'in work’ is defined as being in employment (including self-employed) and earning more than the equivalent of the minimum wage for working 16 hours a week. As an example, the current minimum wage is £7.20 per hour for over 25s, so the minimum weekly income to be eligible would be £7.20 x 16 = £115.20.
- Each parent must also earn less than £100,000 per year.
- One parent must be 'in work' if the other receives disability benefit or benefits related to caring responsibilities (parental, maternity, paternity leave, adoption leave, or statutory sick pay)
Please note that this is a government initiative and Ward Jackson Cof E Primary School do not have any control over the qualifying criteria.