We understand that balancing the costs of early education can be challenging. To continue to provide a nurturing and enriching environment for your children, we need to introduce consumable charges for our provision beyond basic care.
Why We're Introducing Charges
At Leyland St James, we're committed to offering:
- A Ofsted Outstanding rated Nursery (three consecutive times)
- All practitioners are First Aid Trained
- A high adult-to-child ratio
- A full free-flow indoor/outdoor curriculum
- Forest School sessions with a fully qualified Forest School Teacher
- High-quality extracurricular activities crucial for your child's holistic development
- Laundry service
To maintain these standards, we need to introduce a consumable charge. However, we continue to strive to keep our charges low whilst maintaining sustainability.
Consumable Charges prices
- Full Day Care: £5.00 per day
- Sessional Day Care: £4.00 per day
- Half-Day Session: £2.00 per session
Opting In: By opting in to our fully inclusive consumable price, everything listed below will be included in your child's nursery day.
Opting Out: If you choose not to pay these charges, you will be required to bring the following items daily:
You are welcome to opt out of the consumable charge entirely and provide all the listed items below each day. Please note that your child will not be able to access individually priced activities or extras if this option is selected.
Daily items you must provide if opting out:
- Snacks for the session when required
- Wipes
- Water bottle
- Nappies and nappy sacks for dirty clothes
- Welly boots
- Outdoor waterproof pants
- Suncream
- Gardening equipment (e.g. pots/seeds)
- All washing will be returned home
These activities require a weekly opt-in and are not available to children who fully opt out of our consumable charge.
- Forest School sessions (daily)
- Gardening Club sessions (Daily)
- Full version of our Family App (includes a printed learning journey at the end of your child’s time with us)
- Lending Library
For families that choose to OPT out, our occasional activities would be charged when the event occurs.
These apply to special events such as:
- Garden Party Events: £5.00 per person
- Winter Wonderland: £5.00 per person (please supply your own gift for Father Christmas)
- End-of-Year Disco: £3.00 per person
- Admin charge for intervention paperwork above statutory requirements
