Sunshine Group
Ages 3 to 4 years
The Bath House offers a warm, nurturing and stimulating environment where children learn through creative play and are responded to as individuals. The children at the Bath House have strong relationships with staff and are listened to and valued. Children talk about their excitement about attending the Bath House and have a strong sense of ownership and control over the activities they take part in. Parents are welcomed, included and able to approach staff with any concerns they have and parents feel happy and confident to leave their children in our care.
Early Years Foundation Stage
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is the government framework and standards that informs all early years childcare. At the Bath House we work within the EYFS to ensure the best possible outcomes for your child's welfare, learning and development.
Records are kept of each child's progress in all these areas of development, and they will be made available to the parents/carers each term. Parents will have a one to one interview with the key worker twice each year.
The Sunshine group has 18 places. Our staff child ratio is 1 to 5 and all our staff are qualified in childcare. Our nursery is open 47 weeks per year and we close for 2 weeks at Christmas, the last 2 weeks of the school summer holidays, and 5 other days (bank holidays and inset day).
Children attend for 47 weeks in the year and are charged for 47 weeks.
We also offer a term-time option to the Sunshine group, which follows Hackney schools terms, and fees are charged for 38 weeks in the year. If you require extra days during the holidays these may be booked if there is any space.
There are two session options, which can be combined together:
Short Day is 9.00 to 3.00pm
Long Day is 9.00 to 5.45pm
Children attend for a minimum of 3 days per week. We request it will include a Monday or Friday.
If an earlier start is needed we have Breakfast Club which is from 8.30 to 9.00 (£4 extra per day) . Breakfast is provided. A nutritious lunch is included in the prices below, and snacks are provided morning and afternoon.
Nursery grant 15 hours childcare
All children receive the 15 hour free grant in the school term after turning three. This government grant provides 15 hours of nursery education and additional hours are paid for by parents/carers. The nursery grant is approx £3300 per year but varies each year. The nursery receives this grant for your child's care.
30 hours per week of childcare.
The Extended Entitlement grant for 30 hours childcare is a grant for eligible families. The grant is approx. £6600 but varies each year. You will be required to register with the HMRC in order for them to assess your eligibility. Proof of eligibility will be required on a quarterly basis. The nursery will be paid the grant for your childcare. The extended entitlement is available to families where:
Please speak to us if you may be eligible and look at the government website www.gov.uk/help-with-childcare-costs/free-childcare-and-education-for-2-to-4-year-olds.
We request fees are paid by standing order at the start of the month
Fees from Sept 2023
The Bath House offers a warm, nurturing and stimulating environment where children learn through creative play and are responded to as individuals. The children at the Bath House have strong relationships with staff and are listened to and valued. Children talk about their excitement about attending the Bath House and have a strong sense of ownership and control over the activities they take part in. Parents are welcomed, included and able to approach staff with any concerns they have and parents feel happy and confident to leave their children in our care.
Early Years Foundation Stage
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is the government framework and standards that informs all early years childcare. At the Bath House we work within the EYFS to ensure the best possible outcomes for your child's welfare, learning and development.
Records are kept of each child's progress in all these areas of development, and they will be made available to the parents/carers each term. Parents will have a one to one interview with the key worker twice each year.
The Sunshine group has 18 places. Our staff child ratio is 1 to 5 and all our staff are qualified in childcare. Our nursery is open 47 weeks per year and we close for 2 weeks at Christmas, the last 2 weeks of the school summer holidays, and 5 other days (bank holidays and inset day).
Children attend for 47 weeks in the year and are charged for 47 weeks.
We also offer a term-time option to the Sunshine group, which follows Hackney schools terms, and fees are charged for 38 weeks in the year. If you require extra days during the holidays these may be booked if there is any space.
There are two session options, which can be combined together:
Short Day is 9.00 to 3.00pm
Long Day is 9.00 to 5.45pm
Children attend for a minimum of 3 days per week. We request it will include a Monday or Friday.
If an earlier start is needed we have Breakfast Club which is from 8.30 to 9.00 (£4 extra per day) . Breakfast is provided. A nutritious lunch is included in the prices below, and snacks are provided morning and afternoon.
Nursery grant 15 hours childcare
All children receive the 15 hour free grant in the school term after turning three. This government grant provides 15 hours of nursery education and additional hours are paid for by parents/carers. The nursery grant is approx £3300 per year but varies each year. The nursery receives this grant for your child's care.
30 hours per week of childcare.
The Extended Entitlement grant for 30 hours childcare is a grant for eligible families. The grant is approx. £6600 but varies each year. You will be required to register with the HMRC in order for them to assess your eligibility. Proof of eligibility will be required on a quarterly basis. The nursery will be paid the grant for your childcare. The extended entitlement is available to families where:
- both parents are working (or the sole parent is working in a lone parent family)
- each parent earns on average a weekly minimum equivalent to 16 hours at the National Minimum wage or 16 hours at National Living Wage.
- neither parent has an income of more than £100,000 per year
- both parents are employed but one or both parents is temporarily away from the workplace on parental, maternity or paternity leave, adoption leave or get statutory sick pay
- one parent is employed, and one parent has substantial caring roles based on specific benefits received for caring, or is disabled/ incapacitated based on receipt of specific benefits
Please speak to us if you may be eligible and look at the government website www.gov.uk/help-with-childcare-costs/free-childcare-and-education-for-2-to-4-year-olds.
We request fees are paid by standing order at the start of the month
Fees from Sept 2023
Full-time (47 Weeks)
15 hr grant 3 day 4 day 5 day
Short day 506 681 920
Long day 671 908 1204
30 hr grant
Short day n0t available 645
Long day 396 633 929
The full year monthly costs are shown over 12
months
Term time (38 weeks)
15 hr grant 3 day 4 day 5 day
Short day 410 564 780
Long day 560 764 1030
30 hr grant
Short day not available
Long day n/a 464 730
The term time monthly costs shown are over 11 months, there is no payment in August
In Sunshine Group we understand the children’s desire for independence, challenge, stimulation and exploration, and aim to meet the needs of their enquiring minds! We believe our programme of activities is a thoughtful and age appropriate balance of free, open ended exploration of resources and toys, with more specific adult-led structured learning fed in to the daily schedule.
Making and respecting friends is also a big theme in our group, negotiating the world of social play, listening to others, turn-taking and awareness of feelings is promoted and supported by our skilled and caring staff team.
For most children it is the year before starting in Reception class, so our emphasis is on building relationships with a broader range of adults, working as a team, independence in self-care, confidence in expressing ourselves as well as the importance of listening to each other.
Our children are increasingly aware of and involved in the themes and topics we introduce, often asking questions and wanting to find more information, through books and safe use of the Internet, we find learning together is really fun!
Through a combination of consolidating existing skills, and developing new ones in readiness for school, key-workers plan activities for individual children to help support their different learning needs, across the seven EYFS areas of learning and development.
Activities
Some typical daily activities would include;
Making and respecting friends is also a big theme in our group, negotiating the world of social play, listening to others, turn-taking and awareness of feelings is promoted and supported by our skilled and caring staff team.
For most children it is the year before starting in Reception class, so our emphasis is on building relationships with a broader range of adults, working as a team, independence in self-care, confidence in expressing ourselves as well as the importance of listening to each other.
Our children are increasingly aware of and involved in the themes and topics we introduce, often asking questions and wanting to find more information, through books and safe use of the Internet, we find learning together is really fun!
Through a combination of consolidating existing skills, and developing new ones in readiness for school, key-workers plan activities for individual children to help support their different learning needs, across the seven EYFS areas of learning and development.
Activities
Some typical daily activities would include;
- Lots of conversations to get to know each other, what we like, about our families, finding out about the world around us, and learning how to listen to others and explore new words
- Art/craft activities on different themes, exploring a range of materials and techniques
- Small world toys and construction sets, to promote building with a narrative and purpose
- Open ended materials, such as logs, pine cones, corks, cotton reels, bark, string etc, to explore textures and properties, and foster creative thinking.
- Sand/water/painting for imaginative play and to explore texture, colour and materials
- Singing, music, dancing, movement and relaxation time, to recognise the need to move, discover our bodies, explore rhythm and sound, express ourselves, and also to feel calm and to rest
- Outdoor play to experience a range of bikes, scooters, body-boards, slide, ball games and large construction, as well as sand/water/planting/home-corner area for imaginative play
- Story times with adults, to promote interaction and response, and free access to a range of fiction and non-fiction books for the children to browse, encouraging independent interest and a love of reading
- Snacks and meal times -children and staff enjoy good food and conversation around the table! The children love helping with taking their plates and cups back to the kitchen when finished
