Admissions, Fees & Funding
We love welcoming new families to the pre-school and all enquiries must arrange a visit before completing our reservation form. Our reservation form shows what sessions we offer and what our costs are.
To reserve your child's place, please complete the reservation form at the link below, ensuring you have read and agreed to our admissions policy below (this is part of the reservation form as well), and have included the £75 registration fee. If the fee is not included your child's place is not secured.
For further information or assistance regarding availability, please call us on 01483 808488 or email us at rainbowsendpreschool@gmail.com
To reserve your child's place, please complete the reservation form at the link below, ensuring you have read and agreed to our admissions policy below (this is part of the reservation form as well), and have included the £75 registration fee. If the fee is not included your child's place is not secured.
For further information or assistance regarding availability, please call us on 01483 808488 or email us at rainbowsendpreschool@gmail.com
Academic year 2024/25 Sessions
There will be three session options to chose from:
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday:
Option 1: Morning session: 9.15am - 12.30pm
Option 2: Morning & Lunch Session: 9.15am - 1.30pm
Option 3: All Day Session: 9.15am - 2.45pm
Wednesday and Friday:
Option 1 only: Morning session: 9.15am - 12.30pm
There will be three session options to chose from:
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday:
Option 1: Morning session: 9.15am - 12.30pm
Option 2: Morning & Lunch Session: 9.15am - 1.30pm
Option 3: All Day Session: 9.15am - 2.45pm
Wednesday and Friday:
Option 1 only: Morning session: 9.15am - 12.30pm
Our Fee Structure
Our fee structure and fees is:
** HOURLY RATE: 2 Year olds £7.85 3-4 Year olds £7.50 **
from January 2025 the hourly rate for 2 year olds will be £9.00ph
Morning session 9:15am -12:30pm £4.30 + 3 hours funded or 3 x hourly rate
Morning session 9:15am- 1:30pm £4.30 + 4 hours funded or 4 x hourly rate
(with lunch)
Full Day 9:15am -2:45pm £6.50 + 5 hours funded or 5 x hourly rate
Please note an additional amount is charged for snack at £1.00 per snack and £2.50 per lunch, and these costs are added to your termly invoice.
Our fee structure and fees is:
** HOURLY RATE: 2 Year olds £7.85 3-4 Year olds £7.50 **
from January 2025 the hourly rate for 2 year olds will be £9.00ph
Morning session 9:15am -12:30pm £4.30 + 3 hours funded or 3 x hourly rate
Morning session 9:15am- 1:30pm £4.30 + 4 hours funded or 4 x hourly rate
(with lunch)
Full Day 9:15am -2:45pm £6.50 + 5 hours funded or 5 x hourly rate
Please note an additional amount is charged for snack at £1.00 per snack and £2.50 per lunch, and these costs are added to your termly invoice.
Admissions Policy 2024/25
Rainbow’s End Pre-School follows a policy in which every child is offered a place at the pre-school regardless of race, gender, religion & beliefs or disability. Please refer to the reservation for for details of our admissions criteria.
Information Provided in an Application
We would like all applications to be fully and honestly completed. It is important that where we offer places to some and refuse others we do so fairly and consistently. Where we have reason to believe that information is false and has been provided knowingly, we may withdraw the offer of a place. If you know or believe that your child’s address will change before admission, you must inform us immediately.
Following allocation of places, the pre-school will retain a waiting list. Waiting lists will be kept in order according to our admission criteria and places on lists will not be prioritised according to how long a child’s name has been on that list. It is possible that a child’s name could move within this list. As a community funded setting, we are required to have a majority split of children in the local catchment area, so when we are running at full capacity priority will be given to those living in the catchment area.
We will contact successful parents to welcome them to the pre-school and to make arrangements for admission itself. You will also be contacted if we do not have a place available at the time of application.
Please click here for the latest reservation form. To secure your child's place the £75 deposit must be sent in with the completed form. Once the deposit has been received we will be in touch with regards to arranging a home visit, settling in session and start date for your child.
Rainbow’s End Pre-School follows a policy in which every child is offered a place at the pre-school regardless of race, gender, religion & beliefs or disability. Please refer to the reservation for for details of our admissions criteria.
Information Provided in an Application
We would like all applications to be fully and honestly completed. It is important that where we offer places to some and refuse others we do so fairly and consistently. Where we have reason to believe that information is false and has been provided knowingly, we may withdraw the offer of a place. If you know or believe that your child’s address will change before admission, you must inform us immediately.
Following allocation of places, the pre-school will retain a waiting list. Waiting lists will be kept in order according to our admission criteria and places on lists will not be prioritised according to how long a child’s name has been on that list. It is possible that a child’s name could move within this list. As a community funded setting, we are required to have a majority split of children in the local catchment area, so when we are running at full capacity priority will be given to those living in the catchment area.
We will contact successful parents to welcome them to the pre-school and to make arrangements for admission itself. You will also be contacted if we do not have a place available at the time of application.
Please click here for the latest reservation form. To secure your child's place the £75 deposit must be sent in with the completed form. Once the deposit has been received we will be in touch with regards to arranging a home visit, settling in session and start date for your child.
Funding
We accept 15 hour free funding and 30 hour free funding children, as well as FEET and EYPP funded children.
If you think you qualify for any of these, please complete the following forms and supply Rainbow's with your code when you come and visit.
If you are eligible for FEET Funding we require your funding code before you start with us. For all 15 and 30 hour funded children, Rainbow's will request you complete the relevant form at the beginning of each term.
We also accept the new Working Parents for Two Year Old Funding. To check you are eligible please visit the Childcare Choices website: Upcoming changes to childcare support | Childcare choices where you will be issued with an 11 digit code should you meet all the criteria. You will then need to complete this form and send it to the pre-school office to have your code checked. This needs to be done before the start of the term.
If you think you qualify for any of these, please complete the following forms and supply Rainbow's with your code when you come and visit.
If you are eligible for FEET Funding we require your funding code before you start with us. For all 15 and 30 hour funded children, Rainbow's will request you complete the relevant form at the beginning of each term.
We also accept the new Working Parents for Two Year Old Funding. To check you are eligible please visit the Childcare Choices website: Upcoming changes to childcare support | Childcare choices where you will be issued with an 11 digit code should you meet all the criteria. You will then need to complete this form and send it to the pre-school office to have your code checked. This needs to be done before the start of the term.