sage Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 DD starts big school in the summer & I was wondering how much these clubs cost. I asked at the school but they will not discuses the clubs until confirmation your child will be attending the school is issued (April). She will only need to do 3 days a week but depending on cost I may be better trying to change my hours at work. Sage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willow Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 That's not very helpful. Although I didn't think secondary school's did much in the way of formal After School Club, just that various special interest clubs are usually run after school. My boys have done a few clubs after school and the only thing I have to pay for is Drama as it is run by an external trainer. By secondary school my inclination is that children are old enough to let themselves in if you're working , although you may not want to do that 5 days a week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purplemaniacs Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Big school I took to mean primary not senior but I may be wrong. I work with four year olds I know prices of after school clubs varies enormously. We do not have one, a small village school but our other site, we are federated does, I will see if I can find out what they charge. Would a childminder be a possibility. the one is the village where I work is great and she collects a number of children from school, different children each day but she always knows who Chrissie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loumabel Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 My mother in law runs a breakfast club at a local primary school and they charge £1.50 a day per child. They do get a really good breakfast for that money including a hot breakfast if they want it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowberry Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Can you not ask another parent who's child attends the school to find out the prices? Why would they want to withhold the information? I would want to be in full posession of all the facts & costs before I decided which school to send my child to. They're just being pedantic imo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Looney Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Our school charges £3.50 for breakfast club (7.45-8.50) and £8.50 for after school club (3.30-6.00). We can use childcare/ salary sacrifice vouchers to pay for the after school club which helps a bit but costs soon add up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willow Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Big school I took to mean primary not senior but I may be wrong. I work with four year olds Ahhh that would make more sense. I have teen boys so the idea of primary being 'big' is alien these days. Our local schools are referred to as 'Little xxx, Middle xxx and Big xxx (where xxx is abbreviated version of full school name) Even more unhelpful of the school if they are primary I could almost understand their attitude if it was a secondary school but really at this age what are you to do. Mind you I remember looking around a primary school and asking the bursar if they had an after school club and being told in a rather disdainful tone 'Our children go home to their parents' I found a child minder then asked for a home-working contract. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurpleTree Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Our primary school the breakfast club is free. The school doesn't have an after school club, but there's a couple of local childcare clubs that pick up at home time & walk them to nearby church halls, think they charge £6.50 per session. I guess it all varies depending on where you are Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfer_chicken Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Not sure which employers would provide these, but my dad got Busy Bee vouchers through his work (at the council) which helped to pay for after school clubs for my brother, might be worth looking into Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted January 4, 2013 Author Share Posted January 4, 2013 Many thanks all Should have made it clear big school is primary. Sage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
