We are pleased to offer breakfast club and after-school club for our pupils, where we offer a relaxed environment for children to play, watch films, play board games, do crafts and draw pictures.

From Easter 2025, we are pleased to announce that we are an early adopter of the Universal Breakfast Club - which provides a free breakfast for all our children.

We have also been supported by Wakefield Council to extend our after-school club to 6pm.

 We offer the following sessions each day;

Breakfast Club

7.30am to 8.40am  - full session The cost of this session is £5.00. (£7.00 for nursery children)

8.15am to 8.45 am  - partial session with a healthy breakfast provided.   This is a FREE service for children in Reception to Year 6.  This will cost £4.00 for nursery children.

After school Club

3.15pm to 4.15pm - partial session with healthy snacks provided.  The cost of this session is £5.50. (£6.50 for nursery children)

3.15pm to 6:00pm - full session with a light meal provided at approximately 4.30pm.  The cost of this session is £12. (£15 nursery children)

Please take advantage of tax-free childcare support available through the government gateway service. This initiative allows working parents, earning less than £100,000 per year, to pay only 80% of childcare costs, with the government subsidising the remainder. Further information can be found at https://www.gov.uk/tax-free-childcare.

Bookings for any of the sessions are required beforehand and this can be done on your ParentPay account.  You can also cancel sessions and get a refund for any sessions you have booked as long as this is within 24 hours of the session date.

We appreciate that on occasion you may need to use the extended care at last minute.  If this happens please ring school on 01977 232320 or email us at admin@darringtonschool.org.uk to arrange booking your child in.

If children are not pre-booked into the breakfast or after-school clubs, we will contact parents and ask them to collect unless a prior booking or agreement with school has been made.  This is to ensure we know which children are expected to be in attendance, and also to ensure correct staffing ratios.