A very warm welcome to Marlborough Day Care

We are excited to have our  Day Care room in the heart of our school, based  in between the Kings road and Fulham road in Chelsea.

Marlborough Day Care offers high quality care and play with outstanding resourcing in state of the art, architectural award-winning school.

We have experienced teachers and Early Years Educators delivering well-planned and stimulating learning activities.

We offer wrap around care from 7.45am to 5.30pm 

Day Care children will have the opportunity to use the facilities available to all the EYFS children in our school, such as EYFS only outside area, dance and music studio and multi sensory rooms.

Curriculum 

Our EYFS ethos and curriculum runs right through from children in our Day Care at 6 months old, to our children in our Reception classes. We deliver a curriculum that incorporates the seven areas of learning. The Characteristics of Effective Learning run through and underpin each of these areas.

We know our children very well and we plan through their interests and tailor their learning to support them in achieving their next steps. Please find our curriculum overview below.

Our Day Care curriculum focus on the Prime areas of EYFS learning and supports the children to develop in a holistic and nurturing way. 

 

     

 

Learning  in Day Care

Our children love to learn and it shows in everything that they do. We believe in promoting positive relationships with our children and each other. We focus on supporting our children to develop a Growth Mindset which ensures that they can overcome any obstacles.

The Team  

Manager Mon-Thurs - Jo Gauci

Acting Deputy Manager - Alex Deverell  

Early Years Educator - Yvonne McDonald

Early Years Educator - Maureen Quinlan

Early Years Educator - Maritza DeMarco

Partner Teacher - Nicola Peacock

Partner Teacher - Marina Riberio

Every child is allocated a Key Person from the team who will be both the child and their parent's primary contact. All Key People will ensure that care routines and planned learning experiences match the needs of each child. 

Our Day Care Offer

Our Day Care is open for 50 weeks per year* from 7:45-5:30pm on Monday - Friday, for children from 6 months until the term they turn 3. (They will then move up to Nursery 1 class).

*The service closes for two weeks to coincide with the school’s Christmas holiday

 

 

 

 

 Food and Snacks

Our lunches are provided by Harrisons catering company, who prepare our lunches on site.  There is a three weekly rolling menu which can be seen on our lunches page.

All children in Day Care enjoy a morning and afternoon snack. All our snacks are subject to the ‘Eat Better Start Better Voluntary Food and Drink Guidelines for Early Years Settings’.

For more information for Day Care please refer to:

https://foundationyears.org.uk/eat-better-start-better/

 Visiting our Setting 

We have weekly tours on a Thursday morning and we welcome visits to look around our Day Care. Please book directly  by calling the the school office on 0207 589 8553.  We look forward to meeting you!

Admissions

Admissions are managed by our school and we ask that you send all applications to: Info@marlborough.rbkc.sch.uk

We use the following criteria to allocate places to allocate Day Care places when we are oversubscribed: 

1. Children that are Looked After Children that live in RBKC
2. Children of a permanent member of the school staff
3. Sibling(s) of pupils who currently attend Marlborough Primary School (by age)
4. Age of the pupil (oldest pupils first)

 Children must attend for at least two days per week. The charge scale is for Summer 2023 is here and is under review for September 2023.