Parents

Fees are payable monthly in advance. An invoice will be issued via the Famly App before the start of the month and is payable within 10 days of receipt. Please contact us for our current fee structure.

The aim of the Early Years Pupil Premium is to close the gap between children from disadvantaged backgrounds and other  children by providing additional funding to settings such as ours, therefore providing the opportunity to raise the quality of provision we offer.

All children aged three and four (not two year olds), who meet the eligibility criteria will benefit from the funding. This funding is paid directly to us on an hourly rate basis, linked to claimed hours for entitled children. In order to be able to claim this funding we require parents to sign the funding agreement which asks for details of parent’s date of birth and National Insurance number.

A child will be eligible for the EYPP if they:

1. Are in a low-income family and their parents are in receipt of benefits (one or more), for example, Child Tax Credit and Income Support;

2. Have been adopted from care;
3. Have left care through special guardianship;
4. Have been looked after by the local authority for at least the span of one day;
5. Are subject to a child arrangement order.

As an Early Years setting we have the freedom to choose how we spend the money to best support disadvantaged children in our care. Our nursery will use the additional funding in the following ways:

1. Continue our commitment to furthering our knowledge within our Continuing Professional Development by attending relevant training.

2. Creating ‘Home Learning’ lending bags and packs.

3. Buy in any specialist services to support families and children (this includes the cost of staffing such events), such as, behaviour management, parenting classes and information awareness sessions.

4. Purchasing additional resources and enriching our provision within the outdoor and indoor environment.

5. Provide enrichment activities or experiences such as ‘Living Eggs’, visits or trips, visitors such as storytellers or forest school specialists.

We are continually reviewing the data we collect on children’s attainment and refreshing our strategies to support children who are falling behind or in danger of doing so. The practical ideas that are implemented on a daily basis are only a few of the strategies used and their success can be monitored through the data. However, there are other ways that we measure and monitor the impact we have on families. These are:

1. EYPP and LAC Individual Plans containing child’s, parent’s and practitioner’s voice and evaluation of spending;

2. Parent questionnaires;
3. Informal conversations at the start or end of a day;
4. Parent feedback forms provided with children’s Learning Journals and Focus Child meetings;
5. Focus Child meetings or Family Support Meetings;
6. Success after the implementation of the Early Help Assessments (EHA’s);
7. Conversations with professionals we work alongside to support families;
8. Feedback from feeder primary schools;