Nursery Fees & Early Years Funded Entitlement Offer for children from 9 months (terms & conditions apply to the DfE offer & are stated below)

Sessions Times & Prices

Our Nursery Fees structure is easy to understand at Play Days Academy Ltd, & gives you the option to choose from a variety of nursery sessions that meet your family’s requirements & convenience.

Browse through our sessions & fees schedule below.

Price
Full time- 5 days 7.45-5.45 £311
Full day 7.45-5.45 £72
Morning 7.45-12.45 £50
Afternoon 12.45-5.45 £50
Breakfast club 7.15-7.45 £4.50
Play Scheme Holiday 9-4 £40
Holiday Extended hour 4-5 £8

Care Package term time: 3 full days
30 hours £45 pw
15 hours £22.50 pw

Care Package Stretched
22.35 hours (30 hr) £33.53 pw
11.17 hours (15 hr) £16.75 pw

What does the funding look like at Play Days – Leicester?

At Play Days – Leicester, we stretch the funding to offer it throughout the year. Your child’s annual funding entitlement of either 570 hours or 1140 hours will be applied to your booking over 52 weeks. If your child is eligible for 15 hours, you will receive 10.96 hours per week all year round. A child eligible for 30 hours will receive 22 hours per week all year round.

At Play Days Academy- Leicester, we offer funding alongside an Enhanced Provision Charge (EPC) for each funded hour. We believe our offering is truly excellent. However, we recognise the significant cost of childcare and want families to understand what the EPC covers and how it is calculated.

Enhanced Provision Charge
At Play Days Academy- Leicester we will apply an Enhanced Provision Charge for each funded hour allocated to your child – the EPC for our nursery can be found on the website alongside the main nursery fees. The Early Years funding covers only the basic delivery of the Early Years Framework and is not designed to cover all of the consumables and other extras that help Play Days – Leicester deliver an exceptional experience for your children. Any absences from nursery are charged as normal. The EPC is calculated for the whole funding period based on the total number of funded hours we will pass on in the term. This total charge will then be divided equally across the months covered by the funding period. You can use the tool below to estimate your cost per week.

Our Food
All meals and snacks will be provided for your children. We pride ourselves on the quality of our food. Our menus are designed in house and prepared fresh daily by on site cooks.

Our Activities
We have a Sports coach who comes in once a week to lead physical & sports sessions.

Our Environment
We invest heavily in our environments, and the resources that your children use and learn from. Exciting outdoor play areas combined with innovative and durable resources to inspire play and promote learning.

HOW TO APPLY

1. CHECK YOUR ELIGIBILITY
Eligibility criteria can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/free-childcare-if-working/check-youre-eligible

2. APPLY THROUGH THE GOVERNMENT PORTAL

3. AWAIT ELIGIBILITY CODE

4. SUBMIT YOUR CODE TO PLAY DAYS ACADEMY

your code will be validated with the local authority & submitted on your behalf to release your funding

5. REGULAR CONFORMATION

Remember to reconfirm your eligibility every 3 month’s

To apply:

https://www.gov.uk/free-childcare-if-working/apply-for-free-childcare-if-youre-working

WHAT OTHER FUNDING OPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE?

There are a number of other government childcare & funding initiatives to help ease the burden of nursery care:

  • Universal credit; terms & conditions apply & details can be found here; https://www.gov.uk/guidance/universal-credit-childcare-costs
  • Extra Working Tax Credit to help cover childcare costs for existing claimants. If you already claim tax credits, you can add an extra amount of Working Tax Credit to help cover the cost of childcare.
  • Childcare Vouchers – The scheme has been discontinued, but existing users can still use them.

    Childcare vouchers have been discontinued and you can no longer apply for these but if you are an existing user you can still use them at our nurseries to pay for your childcare fees.

    Please visit the governments Childcare Choice’s page for more details on all of these schemes, including how to apply

    Best Start in Life – Best Start in Life

We regret that there can be no charge reduction for holidays or absence due to illness or closure that are beyond our control.
Fees are payable weekly or monthly, per calendar month via debit card, Bank transfer or cash payments.

Please contact Play Days Academy Leicester for any additional information on Nursery pricing. We are located in Glen Parva which is few minutes from South Wigston, Blaby, Oadby, Narborough, Whetstone and Leicester City centre. You can call or email us to book an appointment for Nursery visit.

 

Nursery Reviews

This is an amazing nursery.after getting off to a bad start with another nursery we were very hesitant about letting him try another.but i can't praise everyone at playdats academy enough for eveything they have done to settle our son in.he loves it here and even with his lack of communication skills they have been fabulous.he now knows some makaton (we are also learning with him).staff are amazing,friendly,patient and so nurturing to the children.and the revamp looks amazing with such a home from home feel. this nursery definatly puts the childrens needs and individuality as their first priority.

Nicky Walter

Since the new people took over the change in my daughter is phenomenal she's so happy everyday that she comes .Her speech has improved beyond recognition and so has her confidence. After the refurb the place is fantastic it's equipped with everything you could wish for The staff are fantastic nothing is too much trouble And there is always fun /educational activities going on Can't recommend this place enough will be very sad when my child leaves to start primary

Lorna May smith

A lovely fresh and bright new nursery set on the edge of the Leicestershire countryside.The children are stimulated and educated through play and the outdoors whatever the weather. It has a lovely "home from home" feel, with friendly staff who treasure your little one as much as you do.

Sharon Mckinnon-Mitchell

I wasnt sure how my "clingy" 1 year old would adapt to nursery but now she waves us off and cant wait to go! Everyone is so understanding of all the children and have really bought my girl out of her shell. She loves mixing with other children now, Although she doesn't need to be in nursery i am so glad i decided to let her as she seems to be learning a lot more and becoming very talkative!

Weezer Yo

My kids absolutely love this place. People working here,are very friendly, funny and i know that i can trust them to leave my 2 kids with them. It's like a second home for my kids. Thanks for everything you are doing for them . xxx

Michaela Misakova Adamcova

Absolutely fantastic nursery, my 4 year old son loves it here. Management and Staff are amazing with him (he has communication problems and awaiting results of assessments) . Also after extensive revamp the place looks so homely, fresh, clean and inviting....

Lisa Martin

Amazing nursery, my twins love it here and are excited just going through the gate. Staff are very friendly and approachable. Nursery is very clean and amazingly set out. My twins never want to leave when I pick them up.

Shaney Mercedes Brown

My daughter loves playdays Acadamy. It has a home from home feel and the staff are amazing with the children. My daughter has learnt so much and made lots of friends.

Lorna-and Nick Farmer

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