Wraparound Care
Breakfast and After School Club Policy
Alvaston Infant and Nursery School provides Breakfast and After School Club care for the pupils of the school. We provide care for children between the ages of 3 and 7. Places are offered on a first-come first-served basis.
Bookings and Payment:
Parents must register their child by clicking on the button below before their child/children can attend. All bookings must be made online via SchoolMoney. All sessions must be pre-paid. We strongly advise booking in advance in order to secure your requirements. If sessions have not been pre-booked and paid for in advance, this will result in your child being unable to access the childcare. Sessions are non-refundable.
Parents that wish to pay via tax-free childcare will need to provide the school office with details of any payment they have made, including payment reference, child’s name, date of payment and amount. This will need to be one week in advance of booking sessions. Once the payment is received, this will be credited against your child’s account and you will be able to use it to pay for sessions. Failure to provide us with these details within the specified timeframe, gives us the right to withdraw your child’s place.
Breakfast Club will be charged at £5.00 per session and will start at 7:30am. After School Club will take place from 3:15pm until 5:30pm and is charged at £6.00 per session.
Only under exceptional circumstances, a one-off emergency booking may be made via calling the school office, subject to availability. This is at the schools discretion and must paid for at the time of booking.
Enrichment After School Clubs:
All Enrichment Clubs will take a weekly register and consent will have been obtained before the child attends. If your child attends an Enrichment After School Club e.g. Dance, Cheerleading etc. and you require child care after the Enrichment Club has finished, we will ensure that your child is escorted safely to our After School Club or Alvaston Junior’s After School Club. At Alvaston Infant and Nursery School, childcare around Enrichment Clubs will be charged at £6.00 per session due to the retention of your child’s place. After Enrichment Clubs, your child will receive a light tea.
The Governing Body reserves the right to increase these charges as appropriate. Parents will be notified 4 weeks’ in advance of any changes to payments.
Punctuality:
Parents who arrive after 5:30pm are subject to a charge of £5 for every 15 minutes that they are late.
Arrivals and departures:
The safe arrival and departure of the children in our care is paramount. At Alvaston Infant and Nursery School, staff will ensure that an accurate record is kept of all children in the clubs, and that any arrivals or departures are recorded in the registers. The registers are kept in an accessible location on the premises at all times. In addition, regular headcounts are carried out during the session.
After School: Children attending Alvaston Infant and Nursery School’s After School Club will be collected by a designated member of staff, who will have a register, at the end of the school day. If your child attends another after school provision e.g. a child minder or external company, please ensure that the school office is informed. We are unable to dismiss children to adults without the consent of a parent/carer. If your child attends Alvaston Junior Academy’s After School Club, we will ensure that they are safely escorted to the designated members of staff, who will take over their care.
After School Club Staff will sign children out before they leave, including the time of collection. Children can only be collected by an adult who has been authorised to collect them on their registration form or through informing the school office in advance of the collection. Staff will contact the main parent/carer for confirmation if they have any concerns regarding collection. Parents/carers must notify the Club if they will be late collecting their child via option 3 on 01332 571704. If a parent/carer is late to collect their child/children a charge of £5.00 will be imposed for every 15 minutes of lateness. This will be added as a late charge via SchoolMoney. When collection after 5.30pm occurs regularly we reserve the right to withdraw access to the club. Any queries regarding fees should be directed in the first instance to the School Office.
Each afternoon, at 3pm, a register will be delivered to the designated teachers who will run the After School Club. Children will be escorted safely to an open plan space, where a member of staff will register them. Any children attending After School Enrichment Clubs will be safely escorted to the After School Club, once the enrichment activity has concluded. Upon arrival to the After School Club, they will be marked in on the register. If a child is booked into the Club but does not attend registration, the designated teacher will check whether the child was present at school that day. If the whereabouts of the child is not known, staff will immediately inform the Designated Safeguarding Lead. Staff will then perform the following actions (not necessarily in order, several actions may be completed at the same time):
· Liaise with the class teacher to gauge whether the child has been dismissed to a parent / carer.
· Conduct a thorough search of the premises and surrounding areas.
· Contact named people, listed on the child’s registration form
· Inform police
Breakfast Club: Breakfast Club opens at 7.30am. Entry is via the gate at the left hand side of the school, leading up the nursery pathway. Parents will need to buzz to gain access to the school grounds. Registration will take place in the open plan space and the Breakfast Club staff will record the time that the child arrives. Parents/carers must accompany their child into school and sign their child in. At 8.45am, children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 will collect their belongings and will be escorted to a central place in school. At 8:50am, children will be accompanied to their classrooms in order to start the school day. If a child attends Alvaston Junior Academy, they will be safely escorted to the office at 8:45am (approx.).
Safeguarding:
The Breakfast and After School Club follow the school’s Safeguarding Policy, a copy of which is on the website. Gates will remain locked during the Club session times and access to the school is through the nursery gate. Parents/carers should not go past the registration point in the open plan area when dropping children off or collecting them without the express permission of club staff. No child will be admitted to the club without the relevant registration forms being completed, this is to ensure we can safeguard your child in the event of an emergency and that we are informed of your child’s medical needs. (Please see Appendix A)
Please allow 3 working days after submitting your form for School Money to be updated and sessions available to book.
