Term Dates 2024-2025

WE ARE CLOSED ON ALL BANK HOLIDAYS

WE ARE OPEN DURING ALL HALF TERM BREAKS

WE ARE CLOSED DURING END OF TERM BREAKS

Dates we are open:

Term 1: Monday 9th September - Thursday 24th October 2024

HOLIDAY CLUB OPEN 28th OCT - 1st NOV

Term 2: Monday 4th November - Friday 20th December 2024

CLOSED DURING CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS

Term 3: Monday 6th January - Friday 14th February 2025

HOLIDAY CLUB OPEN 18th-21st FEBRUARY

Term 4: Monday 24th February - Friday 4th April 2025

CLOSED DURING EASTER HOLIDAYS

Term 5: Tuesday 22nd April - Friday 23rd May 2025

HOLIDAY CLUB OPEN 27th-30th MAY

Term 6: Monday 2nd June - Friday 18th July 2025

HOLIDAY CLUB OPEN 5th-22nd August

Term 1 2025-26 commences on Monday 8th September 2025.

Try Before You Buy

All families are warmly invited to attend a free taster session before making their first childcare booking. These take place 9:30am-11:30am on a mutually convenient date.

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Booking

Click here to see the booking pages for ALL types of sessions currently on offer, or scroll down to find the one you need.

Early birds who book two weeks before term starts get 5% discount! Use code EARLYBIRD at the checkout.

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Family Hygge Sessions

Stay and play with your preschool or home educated children
Mondays 10am-1pm

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Childcare

For children aged 3-11 (Early Years and Home Ed) Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Core Sessions 9am-3pm with wrap-around care subject to availability.

Core Sessions: self-funded

Our core childcare sessions run 9am-3pm following our Daily Rhythm. Please bring a packed lunch. Click here to book daily core sessions that you pay for yourself.

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Core Sessions: funded for 3 and 4 year olds

You can access 15hrs/week childcare (30hrs for working parents) funded by the Government until the end of the term in which your child turns 5. Please bring a packed lunch. Click here to book your child's funded place.

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Wrap-around Childcare

We are able to offer childcare on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 8:30am to 5pm bookable in half-hourly slots.

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Registration, Permissions and Terms & Conditions

Please complete the Registration & Permission Forms before your child attends their first Childcare or Lessons session. You can also read our Terms & Conditions here.

Registration, Permissions and Terms & Conditions

Free Spirits in the Wild

Stay and play in the woods with your preschool or home educated children
Fridays 10am-1pm
First Sunday of the month 10am-3pm with Bushcraft experts

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Lessons for Free Spirits

Private tutoring 1:1 or in a very small group is available to book either as a stand-alone session or in addition to a day's childcare.

Taster lesson just £5 for new customers

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Holiday Club

We offer holistic holiday childcare for children aged 3-11

Before arrival, please ensure you have completed the Registration & Permissions Forms (above).

To book, click the button below then select the term on which the holiday is at the end (e.g. October half term holiday falls at the end of Term 1, so click Term 1). Book the individual days you require. Core hours (9am-3pm) and wrap-around hours (from 8am until 5pm) are booked separately.

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Applications

Apply for a childcare place at Free Spirits Education & Childcare

Children may attend up to three term time childcare sessions before they must be registered as an official Free Spirit by completing the Childcare Registration & Permissions Forms (above) and paying the £50 registration fee to:
Free Spirits Education CIC
Account: 26924640
Sort code: 60 83 71

Home educated children

Home educated children of Statutory School Age may not attend Free Spirits for more than 18 hours per week, as this would place a legal duty on us to provide the majority of their education, which we are not licenced to do.