****Andrea's Childcare****

I collect from Southend School as well as local nurseries and pre-schools including Hayway Nursery, Wymington Nursery and Alpha Pre-school in Higham Ferrers. 

I am able to drop and collect to and from your home (subject to availability) - minimum 2 hours charge per day applies

This service is available for children attending local schools. 

I collect by car from various schools Rushden. Children that are old enough to walk to and from school are able to attend too a (written permission from parents allowing their children to walk will be required) The nearest Schools to us are Alfred Street, Whitefriars and Tennyson Road.

This is available from 7.00am until 9.15am and then from 3pm until 6.00pm (flexible)

Your child can attend just before school or just after school if you wish.

The club is designed to include the following in the hourly rate:

Breakfast will be included (this is ususally cereal, toast and fruit juice etc)

School drop off and collection included (unless your child walks from my house)

Drink and either sandwiches, hot cross buns, hot crumpets or toast on return from school

Homework help and appropriate resources including Internet and enyclopaedias etc will be available plus we have lots of arts and crafts materials should they need to make anything

We will also try and go to the library once a week (time permitting) for resources or general books your child may like, should your child need a specific book for a project, I will pop to the library and get it for you to save you rushing about.

Please note there is a minimum charge of 2 hours per day and all charges are rounded up to the nearest hour.  In many cases I will offer a fixed rate for the week.

Dinner is available for a small charge of £1.50 per day.

What do we do??

Before school, we are usually busy with breakfast and the children often enjoy helping feed the rabbits!

After school, we come home and have a drink and snack, then the children have a choice of the following:

Playing in the garden (weather permitting), helping with their own garden patch (we are growing pumpkins ready for Halloween, tomatoes, beans and radishes as well as flowers, this is the childrens own project that they look after themselves) playing with the rabbits (weather permitting), doing homework which I am happy to help with, doing puzzles from their special folder ( I provide each child with their own folder and every day I pop puzzles, arts and crafts and bits and bobs for them to do if they wish), watching TV or a film, playing on the PS2, sometimes we go for a walk to the shops or the children are welcome to play with the toys.  We may bake cookies or cakes subject to numbers of children and how many little ones we have!

 Your suggestions and feedback would be very welcome, please feel free to leave any comments in my guestbook!