Admissions, Fees, and Funding
Our Ofsted registered preschool in Petts Wood, Orpington, provides both government funded childcare and private funded options.
To begin your child’s journey with Phoenix Early Learners, simply complete our Admissions form. We usually welcome new children each September once they have reached two and a half years old, and from time to time additional places become available during the year. We also operate a waiting list when full. Don’t delay, enquire today!
Fees & Funded Hours
Phoenix Early Learners participates in the government funded childcare scheme, offering both free hours and privately funded hours. We also participate in the tax free childcare scheme, allowing families to pay for private hours using childcare vouchers.
You can read our full Funding Policy Statement here.
Admissions
We have 30 available places per session across the autumn/spring and summer terms. Children may attend for two (2 sessions to be taken across 2 separate days) to ten sessions per week.
Most children are admitted at the start of the academic year, in September. We operate a waiting list and places will be offered to children on the waiting list who have reached the age of two and a half years by 1 September. Once the register has been filled, the Manager will inform all remaining parents on the waiting list if their children have not been allocated a place.
Parents may opt to resubmit their child’s application for the following September. If this option is taken up, the application will be retained on the waiting list, in order of the date of the original application, for possible admission the following year.
Children may also be admitted in January. Where this is the case, places that are still available will be offered to children on the waiting list who have reached the age of two and a half years by 1 January. Once the register has been filled, the Manager will inform all remaining parents on the waiting list if their children have not been allocated a place. Parents may opt to resubmit their child’s application for the following September. If this option is taken up, the application will be retained on the waiting list, in order of the date of the original application, for possible admission later in the year.
If additional places become available mid-year, the vacant sessions will initially be offered to children already on the register. If vacancies still remain, places will be offered to children on the waiting list who have reached the age of two and a half at the start of that term.
You can read our Admissions Policy here.