Supported by the Magic Breakfast programme, we offer a breakfast club for all children attending Hillocks Primary Academy, starting from 8 am each morning.

The breakfast club is staffed by members of the Hillocks Primary Academy team and provides a consistent, calm start to the school day. A variety of age-appropriate activities are available for children to enjoy, alongside quieter options for those who prefer to relax and spend time with friends before lessons begin.

Booking and payment

Bookings must be requested and paid for in full via the online ParentPay app before attending a session. Unfortunately, children cannot attend if payment has not been received.

We will always endeavour to accommodate ad-hoc or last-minute bookings where possible; however, due to statutory staffing ratios, this may not always be possible.

If you need help making a booking please call the academy office on 01623 408785 or send an email to office@hillocksprimary-ac.org.uk.

Charges

The current standard daily charge is £2.00 per session and includes breakfast, provided your child arrives before 8.15 am.

We will give parents one month’s written notice of any changes to charges.

Food and drink

A healthy breakfast will be served with a choice of cereal and milk, bagels, fruit juice and water.

Further information

Children of governors and staff

Children (who attend a Primary Academy in the Trust) of governors visiting an Academy on governor related activities and children (who attend a Primary Academy in the Trust) of all full time Diverse Academies staff are entitled to a free place in Academy run breakfast clubs.

The children (who attend a Primary Academy in the Trust) of part time and casual Diverse Academies staff are entitled to a free place in either breakfast club only when the hours that that staff member is working would cause them to require childcare provision to enable them to work.

It is essential that overheads relating to staffing provision are covered and as the academies rely on paid places to run the extended services, should there only be the children of staff in attendance at the breakfast club then the Academy reserves the right not to run that service.

Children of active service personnel

The children of active personnel are entitled to up to 20 hours of free access to extended services.

Eligibility criteria:

  • At least one partner (or single parent) must be serving as an Armed Forces
    Regular (including Full Time Reserve Service Full Commitment).
  • Dependent children aged 4 to 11 must attend school (including home schooled
    children) and be living with the Serving person for the majority of the time unless
    separated due to service commitments (deployment, residential courses), or when on
    serving on unaccompanied assignments overseas involuntarily with the family in the
    UK. Adopted children, children of long-term relationships and domestic partner
    children, where they meet the eligibility criteria, are eligible. Where the child is
    normally resident elsewhere for example with another natural parent or relative, the
    Service person will be unable to claim WAC funding. Foster children are not eligible,
    as WAC eligibility is based on Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) criteria set by HMRC, part of
    the eligibility criteria for TFC is that the parent has responsibility for the child. Fostered
    children are ‘looked after children’ and the Local Authority (LA) is responsible for
    them. The way the LA delivers its responsibility is by employing foster carers, but the
    LA remains responsible for the child.
  • The partner of the Service person must be in paid employment, starting or restarting
    work within the next 31 days (earning the equivalent of 16 hours at national
    minimum / living wage). Both partners must each have an adjusted net income of
    £100,000 or less per annum.
  • The WAC provider must be Ofsted, or equivalent, registered, including
    schools and childminders.
  • A Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) account must be set up with HRMC for each child that
    Service Personnel wants to claim the funding for.
  • The childcare provider must also be signed up to the TFC scheme.
  • The Service parent has either an assignment order to a UK based unit or is serving
    on an unaccompanied assignment overseas involuntarily with the family residing in
    the UK.

To apply for the funding, parents have to access the Discover My Benefits website and complete a form to ensure they meet the above criteria, if they are successful, then we believe the payments will be processed in the same manner as Tax-Free Childcare Vouchers (TFC).

We have included the link to the information for you to read in your own time Childcare for Service Children.