EU citizen - mother, JSA?

nannytone_2

my daughter pays £35 a WEEK for breakfast and after school club!
he's dropped at school at 8 and picked up any time up until 5.30. but the session costs are the same regardless of how early he goes home
the school also includes a nursery where they take babies from 3 months and they charge £25 per full day

nannytone_2

my daughter manages to get her son accepted into the school ( yorkshire) while she was still living in London (her mother in law knows the head)
it's a tiny school. only 12 places in the nursery ( she already has the baby's name down) only 200 kids between the ages of 4 and 11. theyre currently teaching spanish as a second language across all age groups, and has the best ofsted reports in the area, with 98% reaching national targets at key stage 2.
having talked to my daughter, she is of the opinion that there seem to be NO parents that receive benefit and about 50% of the kids use the breakfast and after school clubs. maybe thats why they manage to keep the costs down

princessdon

nannytone wrote: »

my daughter manages to get her son accepted into the school ( yorkshire) while she was still living in London (her mother in law knows the head)
it's a tiny school. only 12 places in the nursery ( she already has the baby's name down) only 200 kids between the ages of 4 and 11. theyre currently teaching spanish as a second language across all age groups, and has the best ofsted reports in the area, with 98% reaching national targets at key stage 2.
having talked to my daughter, she is of the opinion that there seem to be NO parents that receive benefit and about 50% of the kids use the breakfast and after school clubs. maybe thats why they manage to keep the costs down

In my experience it varies from school to school. One of the schools in my "remit" as a worker (same LA) gives FREE breakfast and £5 per session after school.

It's like somethings in life a postcode/school lottery. Yet the preschool is set by the LA so every preschool if LA ran is £40 pd - no matter where in the LA it is.

My childrens school doesn't support OOS at all, they even charge the runner high rent. Yet they do have extra curricular activities free of charge, from language to sports, to cinema and book reading etc.

Problem is for working parents - those free clubs end at 4.15 and therefore a working parent then needs to pay for the OOS between 4.15 at the same price as 3.15.

The school should support more, but don't sadly! They charge £1000 pm rent for the room, which if they dropped or reduced would lower fees!

Ellejmorgan

nannytone wrote: »

my daughter pays £35 a WEEK for breakfast and after school club!
he's dropped at school at 8 and picked up any time up until 5.30. but the session costs are the same regardless of how early he goes home
the school also includes a nursery where they take babies from 3 months and they charge £25 per full day

works out roughly the same then as breakfast is £1.40 per day at my middle ones school, the eldest is in high school, hers is now free which is really nice...

don't know about nursery yet as my daughter is 16 months, but she currently goes to a childminder who is wonderful, she is only charging £21 from 8-3 pm which is brilliant....

nannytone_2

it isnt that type of nursery. there is a morning and afternoon session nursery, but there is also a nursery for babies ( takes 12 upto the age of 3) it is strictly for parents with children at the school though and it's in it's first year.
they do all kinds of activities at after scjool club too, it's a very old fashioned school, much the same as the one i attended as a child.
when my middle grandson passed away, the elder boy was 5. he returned to school 2 days later, and there was a counsellor waiting for him. i cant fault them in any way