Acorns Club
Breakfast Club is available every school day from 7:30am and After School Club runs until 6pm.
They both take place in our Small Hall in the Infant building. Charges are as follows:
Breakfast Club - £5.00 per day
After School Club - £12.00 per day
A limited number of funded places will be offered at Breakfast Club from 8:00am
We are able to provide for up to 50 children from Reception to Year 6. All the children interact together, with the older pupils really looking after the younger pupils. It’s like a lovely large family.
How to book Acorns Breakfast and Afterschool Club places
All bookings for Acorns club places will now be done via Arbor.
You will need to top up your Arbor account for each child and then use those funds to select the sessions you would like to book.
We will be able to accept payments via childcare vouchers or the government tax-free childcare and these will be added to your Arbor account. Please remember to allow time for your payments to clear through the voucher systems.
- The bank account will be checked daily for tax-free childcare scheme payments and any payments received will be added to your account within 24 hours.
- Any payment confirmations sent by other childcare voucher providers via email will also be added to your account within 24 hours.
- Computershare only send a payment confirmation on the 1st of each month for all payments made within the previous month so if you use Computershare, please email the office when you have made the payment so that we are aware and it can be added to your account.
Sessions will be released termly as follows but you will have more flexibility about what you book and can pick exactly what sessions you need.
- Term1 – 33 days – booking available from 21st July at 6am
- Term 2 – 39 days – booking available from 6th October at 6am
- Term 3 - 29 days – booking available from 8th December at 6am
- Term 4 – 28 days – booking available from 2nd February at 6am
- Term 5 – 24 days – booking available from 23rd March at 6am
- Term 6 – 36 days - booking available from 11th May at 6am
Payment must be received before you can book and the number of available places will be restricted by our staffing ratios.
You will receive an invoice directly from Arbor for any sessions booked.
Please see the detailed guide below for full details on how to top-up your account and book sessions (the instructions are slightly different for the portal and app)
Contacting Acorns Club
For general queries during the school day please email office@west-borough.kent.sch.uk or call the school office on 01622 726391. The email can also be used outside of school/Acorns hours and messages will be responded to as soon as possible on the next day.
Acorns Club have a mobile phone number - 07901 766205. This is to be used for contacting Acorns Club staff after 4pm on days your child is attending if you need to speak to someone urgently.
While the staff may use Class Dojo for sharing activities that the children are participating in, please do not use this for contacting staff as it is not continually monitored so messages may not be seen in time.