Link Club Extended Services Wrap-Around Care
We offer breakfast, after school and holiday club.
Please see below for further details about each service and how to register your interest for your child to attend.
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What do I need to do to request a place in Link Club Extended Services (breakfast, after school or holiday)?
1. Complete the Common Request Form by the termly deadline. Please collect and return a paper copy from the school office or from Link Club staff. This needs only to be done once, unless the details change.
2. Complete the Termly Preference & Booking Preference Form. This should ideally be online but a paper copy is also available.
2. Wait while your Common Request Form is considered by the team and the school office witll then confirm its decision as soon as possible as to whether your request has been accepted or not.
3. Complete Termly Preference & Booking Forms for subsequent terms by the deadline dates if possible.
Deadline dates for forms / bookings (if possible):
for Autumn 2024 - 4th July
for Spring 2025 - 24 November 2024
for Summer 2025 - 1 March 2025
To book a place, after confirmation by school of Common Request Form accepted, please fill in online form by the deadlines above or ring Julie Hennessey on 01925 634207 or email
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Forms
Common Request Form (for breakfast, after school and holiday (return the back pages, keep the front pages for your reference)) :
[FULL DOWNLOADABLE PDF] [FULL DOWNLOADABLE MS WORD]
Breakfast and After school Termly Preference and Booking Form :
[ONLINE GOOGLE FORM] [DOWNLOADABLE PDF] [DOWNLOADABLE MS WORD]
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Costs (wef 1 September 2023)
Places are charged at a flat sessional rate.
All places in the Breakfast provision is £3.
All places in the After School provision till 4.30pm is £4.50.
All places in the After School provision till 6.00pm are £7.00.
Costs (wef 1 September 2024)
Places are charged at a flat sessional rate.
All places in the Breakfast provision is £3.25.
All places in the After School provision till 4.30pm is £4.60.
All places in the After School provision till 6.00pm are £7.25.
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Breakfast and After School Club
Our Breakfast Club is held in the SMILE Centre (on our own campus run by the school with school staff) under our Extended Services Link Club arrangements.
It is available from 7.45am to school start time (at which point they will be taken within our site to the main school building).
It will be available for children from Reception upwards. Nursery pupils are admitted by exception only.
The cost will be £3.25 per session including a breakfast of cereal and/or toast which will be served between 8.00 and 8.15am.
l to 4.30pm (for £4.60 per session) or 6pm (for £7.25 per session). (Costs wef 1 Sept)-------------------
Holiday Club - Next one Summer Holiday 2024
We will be running our holiday club for three weeks during Summer holidays.
Summer Holiday Programme 2023 was...2024 to be confirmed shortly.
Booking & costs
Most holidays we run a holiday club. Parents pay for this facility (except for those invited to the HAF funded section, if this is running)
Costs 2023: £22.00 per child 8am - 6pm, £15.00 per child 9am - 3pm.
Costs 2024: TBC (3 x Visit days will be £33.00 each - numbers limited due to travel, on visit days no additional child care offered)
It is run out of our SMILE Centre.
To book please use the LiveChat (or Leave a Message facility for out of hours) on this website, or email:
Snacks are provided but parents must provide a packed lunch. Payment will be by Parent Pay and payment must be received for the full number of sessions booked before 12 Noon (Friday), the week before the first holiday session. All payments are non-refundable if the place is not used.
We will be prioritising those parents who book the greatest number of days and we are only taking St Margaret’s children. We may take nursery children from our school nursery, however this is not guaranteed. Please request this in your message or booking form for children of this age.
Meeting the EYFS Requirments as set by DfE/OFSTED
Before/after school care and holiday provision
Settings that only provide care before and after school, or during the school holidays, for children who normally attend reception (or older) class during the school day do not need to meet or be guided by the learning and development and assessment requirements set out in Sections 1 and 2. However, settings providing this type of wraparound care for children younger than those in the reception class age range should continue to be guided by, but do not have to meet, the learning and development and assessment requirements. We discuss with parents and/or carers (and other practitioners/providers as appropriate, including school staff/teachers) the support we intend to offer. All settings that provide care for children aged 0-5 must meet safeguarding and welfare requirements as set out in Section 3 (EYFS Framework 2024).