Moonbeams PreSchool
Enrolling your child at the PreSchool
We have flexible sessional places available for 2+ and 3-4 year olds available.
Please contact us for information; we'll do our best to match your requirements with available sessions.
To register with us, you will need to complete an application to join the PreSchool by downloading an application form for completion. You can return it by post or by email:
moonbeams.preschool@gmail.com
Once we have received your application, we will contact you to arrange an induction appointment for you and your child.
We do not charge a registration fee.
Children aged 3-4 years old - Universal funding - 15 hours/week during term time
All three and four-year-olds are entitled to 15 hours' funded childcare a week during term time.
You don’t need to apply for this entitlement or have a code to access it.
Subject to availability, you can use your universal funding for any of our 3-hour sessions.
If you apply to join the Preschool and we offer your child a place, we’ll ask you to complete a form before your child starts. To do this, we’ll ask you to provide a birth certificate so that we can check that your child is the right age for the universal entitlement. We will then submit a claim for your child's funded hours to the local authority.
Children aged 9 months to 3 years and children aged 3 and 4 years– working parent entitlement, 30 hours/week during term time
If you're a working parent, you may be entitled to funded early education and childcare for your child, from nine months old to four years old.
Please note that your child must be at least 2 years old to attend our Preschool.
Subject to availability, you can use your 30 hours’ working parent funding for any of our 3-hour sessions during the week in term time.
You need to apply for working parent funding. The application process is managed by HMRC and eligibility criteria apply. If your application is successful, you’ll be given an 11-digit code. You will need to let us know what the code is, along with your child's date of birth and your national insurance number so that we can access funding for your child’s place.
You will need to reconfirm eligibility every 3 months. HMRC will send a reminder four weeks before the deadline. You’ll need to tell us if you are no longer eligible.
Once you have confirmed your eligibility with HMRC, you can start claiming from the beginning of the next funding period.
Funding periods begin on 1 April (summer term), 1 September (autumn term) or 1 January (spring term).
The deadline for receiving your HMRC code is the last day of the month, before the next funding period starts.
This means that eg., to access working parent entitlement from 1 January, the code you receive from HMRC must be dated on, or before, 31 December. If you apply for and are eligible but are not issued with an HMRC code by 31 December, the funding entitlement will be available from the following funding period 1 April.
If your circumstances change such that you are no longer eligible for working family entitlement, a grace period applies which lets you keep your childcare place or a short period of time following the reconfirmation period.
Once the grace period ends, if you remain ineligible, the entitlement will finish. If your child is 3+ years, they will still be entitled to the universal 15 hours.
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Children in families with a low income or in receipt of certain benefits may be entitled to 15 funded hours per week during term time.
Entitlement is from the funding period after the child turns 2 years old.
If you are eligible, you will receive a code which doesn’t need to be reconfirmed.
Eligibility will continue until your child can access their 3+ years universal entitlement (regardless of any change to circumstances.
Most children attending the Preschool are using their funded hours with us.
If you ask for and we can offer additional sessions - that is, sessions in excess of those covered by your funded hours - we will ask you to pay fees for those additional sessions.
If your child attends and is not eligible for funding, we will ask you to pay fees for the sessions that your child attends.
As at January 2026, our fees are:
- 2 year olds 3 hour session = £30
- 2 year olds full day (6 hours) = £50
- 3+ year olds 3 hour session = £23
- 3+year olds full day (6 hours) = £38
Consumables
We ask all parents/carers to contribute £2 per week to cover consumables usage within the Preschool.
Consumables are items for which we do not receive funding but which the children use within the setting. This charge covers items such as:
- snacks – we provide food for snacks during the day
- ingredients for cooking – we buy in ingredients that we use in cooking activities
- special events – typically, we will buy items to help celebrate festivals, such as Chinese New Year, Diwali, Eid with the children within the setting. We also take the children along to events run in the main Centre, such as MacMillan coffee mornings.
- Items for activities – we buy in materials to support arts/crafts activites
- hygiene items – typically, sunscreen when needed as well as wipes etc.
Parents should refer to the setting newsletter which will have details about activities and events that the children will be taking part in.
Parents may choose to opt-out of paying the weekly consumables charge.
We expect that parents who choose to opt-out of payment of the weekly charge will provide their child with items to cover activities and events.
