Admissions
Groombridge Pre-school is registered with OFSTED for up to 30 children per session.
Groombridge Pre-school is a member of East Sussex County Council Education Department Early Years and Child Development Partnership.
Groombridge Pre-school is a member of the Pre-school Learning Alliance.
We are open and welcoming to ALL families in the community. It is our intention to make our setting accessible to children and families from all sections of the local community through open, fair and clearly communicated procedures. We will make it clear that we welcome both the father and mother, other relations and other carers including child-minders and people from all cultural, ethnic religious and social groups with or without disabilities and medical needs
We will ensure that information about our setting is accessible, in written and spoken form and, where appropriate, in more than one language. Where necessary, we will try to provide information in Braille, or through British Sign Language. We will provide translated written materials where language needs of families suggest this is required as well as access to an interpreter.
Registration fee is £20 which includes a pre-school bag and t-shirt, this will be charged on your first half termly invoice.
It is our intention to give every child a place at each session the parent/carer requests. In the event of having to operate a waiting list we would arrange the list as follows:
Children resident in GROOMBRIDGE
Date of Birth, (elder before younger), but with provision to be made for newcomers to the village
Brother or sister attending the group
The wider community
Urgent Need. In the case of urgent need, we would negotiate with OFSTED for a dispensation regarding group numbers
Your child’s space will be confirm the half term prior to starting Pre-School unless a space comes available mid term.
Our policy is to take children from 2 years old, we offer only half day sessions for 2 year old’s which can include lunch club (am 9am til 12noon) lunch Club 12noon til 1pm (pm 1pm til 3pm), once your child turns 3 they can join us for a full day 9am til 3pm.
Parents will be asked to complete a registration form and provide a copy of the child’s birth certificate. Information held will be strictly confidential and kept separately from other records about the child.
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.
We aim to accommodate each child from the date specified on their application form in accordance with spaces available at the time. Parents/carers will be informed of availability during the half term before their child is due to start, at which time an induction session, will also be arranged for you and your child.
Parents will be billed at the beginning of each half term and are asked to pay within 2 weeks
If a child is absent for a session, or sessions, the fee is still payable.
In the case of hospitalisation or prolonged absence special concessions may be made.
All holidays taken in term time have to be paid for.
We will publish notices, newsletters and all other information in more than one language or any other format as required.
We encourage all parent/carers to become involved with our Pre-school by either joining our committee or by offering other help and support from time to time. If parents feel happy and able they can help out as a spare pair of hands and to see what happens in Pre-school.
We recognise that not all children come from a two-parent family.
We will make our equal opportunities policy widely known.
Families joining our Pre-school are made aware of our Equal Opportunities Policy.
Our policy for the exclusion of children with common infectious diseases is as the recommendations published by the Health Protection Agency.
Groombridge Pre-school reserves the right to delay a child’s entry to pre-school if we do not feel they are ready yet.
This policy is known, agreed and implemented by all staff.
This policy is known and make available to all parents.
This policy was reviewed September 2017