Fee paying children:

There is an hourly fee of £8.80 for the hours not covered by funding.

Woodentops encourages children to attend for a minimum of 2 sessions per week. Children can do more hours if parents require and if we can accommodate.

The space you have booked for your child is non refundable. We will hold these hours specifically for your child. It is at your discretion whether you use them. However, as the space is held for your child there will be no reimbursement of hours not used. Normal fee will be required if you are on holiday or your child is not attending because of illness.

Funded Hours

These are accessible for children who are entitled to 2 year old Government Funding, three and four year old funding and Working family Funding for two, three and four year olds.

These children pay a voluntary sessional fee to cover additional costs that the funded grant does not cover.

Our funded sessions are £5.40 for a morning session (9 am to 12pm), £5.40 for an afternoon session (1pm to 4pm) or £12.00 for an all day session (9am to 3pm). Any additional hours ie 8am to 9am, 12 to 1pm or 3pm to 4pm are charged at the usual hourly rate. 

Snack is £1.20 per snack.

These fees are there to ensure that Woodentops remains financially viable and continues to provide a valuable service to our local community. 

The sessional fee we ask you to pay, is voluntary as per Government guidance, though we must remind you if the sessional fee is not paid Woodentops will NOT be viable and will close.

Parents can access upto 24 hours of funding per week.

Additional hours are charged at £8.80 per hour, these are hours over the funded allowance of either 15 or 30 hours per week, depending on what you are entitled to, and before 9am or after 3pm. 

Invoices
In accordance with Central Beds advice, invoices will be sent out in advance usually the 20th and will be payable by
the 1st of the following month. If your invoice is not paid on time, you are at risk of loosing your child’s place. If you have any problems in paying your invoice, please speak to Jackie as
soon as possible so any issues can be resolved together.

What the sessional fee is for?

This fee covers

• Nutritious snacks
• cooking activities
• Potty training advice
• Mindfulness activities
• self regulation activities
• Gardening sessions
• Book bag and books to borrow to share at home
• Activity bags to borrow
• story sacks to borrw
• Borrowing Woody bear
• Famly App
• Creative / messy play activities
• Celebration activities
• Visitors in
• Wipes
• Gloves
• Waterproof trousers
• Nappy sacks
• Suncream
• Spare welly boots

Opting out

To ensure the smooth operation of Woodentops preschool and continue to make Woodentops a viable business, parents must email with a months’ notice to inform us they wish to opt out of paying the voluntary sessional amount that their child is booked on. 

Parents then must the ensure they supply daily: –

• fruit/vegetable pieces- washed and cut up ready to eat with a savoury biscuit in a named pot- no sweets/ chocolate or nuts please.
• pack of wipes- named
• pack of disposable gloves- named
• water in a named bottle
• nappy sacks- named
• suncream -named
• welly boots named
• waterproof trousers- named.

All these should be in a named bag that the child can carry themselves and must come in and go home daily as we have very little storage space.

Termination of contract

A months’ notice is required for termination of contract. If you remove your child without notice, you will be required to pay 4 weeks fees.