Stanton Drew and Pensford Pre-school
Childcare provider details
Telephone
07810 632064
Registration Type
Day Nursery
Website
WebsiteAbout the childcare provider
Description
We are an inclusive free flow setting operating from the village hall in Norton Malreware, where we have direct access onto a lovely enclosed garden and a covered area. We are open five days a week during school term times (38 weeks a year) and we run a weekly outdoor learning session (‘Forest Club’) in a local wooded area. Our preschool is a voluntary run setting with a close-knit team of staff and a keen committee of parents and volunteers.
Our setting offers places to both fee paying children, and those funded by the Government. We take children from 2 -5 years old.
Fees are currently (April 2025) set at an hourly rate of £7 per hour. Where children are entitled to 15 hours a week of funded time, and they wish to attend hours over and above their free time, parents or carers pay the rate of £7 per hour if their child is not entitled to the 30h funding. For children who are entitled to 30h funding we asked families to provide their funding code. We make a voluntary charge for consumables of £2.50 per day, to cover the cost of snacks, cleaning products, toilet paper, art/craft materials, preschool trips and so on. Note: this is a voluntary charge but as we are a charity run setting we highly recommend families to pay for this fee.
Children may take sessions at a combination of settings, however, for any hours where we do not receive funding we charge the above rate. Parents/carers need to inform preschool of hours attended at other settings. Impromptu sessions (i.e. sessions taken but not requested on the booking form) are charged at £7.20 per hour.
The sessions run from 9.15-14.45. You can choose starting the session at 9.15 and finishing at 12.15, or add the lunch or the full day.
Daily Schedule (please note this is a timetable for staff/parents, to give consistency in timings, rather than a strict routine for the children)
8.45am | Staff Arrive |
9.15am | Children Arrive |
9.30am | Circle time |
10.00am | Attention bucket (Bucket time) |
10.05am | Free Flow- Inside and outside |
10.15am
| Floating person to prepare for Snack Time with a few children. |
10.30am | Free flow snack -Staff to encourage younger children to use toilet, children to have washed hands before eating snack |
11 15.am | Letters and sounds activity (we tend to divide the group between the younger children and the preschoolers age children) |
11.30am | Nappy changing |
12.00pm | Tidy up time inside and outside Sunshine circles for whole group Children who are playing outside come back in and inside children and staff prepare for mat time by ringing the bell |
12:15pm | Story time |
12.30pm
| Staff to encourage children to use toilet, all children to have washed hands before eating their lunch |
1:00pm | Children begin to get down from lunch, free play for 15 mins before staff member rings bell. |
1:15pm | Home time for some children. Remaining children take part in a group activity- dancing, sticky kids physical activity, show and tell… |
1.30pm | Getting ready for the Daily walk by doing our walk golden rules |
2:45pm | Home time for all children |
Location
Address
BS39 4EX
Base Area
Norton Malreward