Admissions Policy

It is our intention to make our setting accessible to children and families from all sections of the local community. We aim to ensure that all sections of our community have access to the setting through open, fair and clearly communicated procedures.

 Procedures

• We ensure that the existence of our setting is widely advertised in places accessible to all sections of the community.

• We ensure that information about our setting is accessible, in written and spoken.

• We describe our setting and its practices in terms that make it clear that it welcomes both fathers and mothers, other relations and other carers, including childminders.

• We describe our setting and its practices in terms of how it treats each child and their family, having regard to their needs arising from their gender, special educational needs, disabilities, social background, religion, ethnicity or from English being a newly acquired additional language.

• We describe our setting and its practices in terms of how it enables children and/or parents with disabilities to take part in the life of the setting.

• We monitor the gender and ethnic background of children joining the group to ensure that our intake is representative of social diversity.

• We make our Equal Opportunities Policy widely known.

• We are flexible about attendance patterns to accommodate the needs of individual children and families, providing these do not disrupt the pattern of continuity in the setting that provides stability for all the children.
  

Enrollment

Although admission is possible from the age of 2 years, parents are invited to visit with their child and complete a Registration form at the earliest reasonable opportunity.  There is a non-refundable administration fee of £30.00. 

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Term Dates

Summer Term 2011

Term finishes on Friday 22nd July 2011 (Noon)

Autumn Term 2011

Tuesday 13th September 2011 – Friday 9th December 2011 (Noon)

Half Term: Monday 24th October – Friday 28th October 2011

INSET Day – Monday 12th September 2011

Wednesday 4th January 2012 – Friday 30th March 2012 (Noon)

Half-Term: Monday 13th February 2011 – Friday 17th February 2012

Summer Term 2012

Tuesday 23rd April 2012 – Friday 20th July 2012 (Noon)

Monday 7th May 2012 - May Bank Holiday

Half-Term: Monday 4th June 2012 – Friday 8th June 2012 

These dates are subject to change.