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• Our approach to learning

  Waldorf Steiner

  We provide activities based on the Waldorf approach to early childhood early education. We take into consideration the age specific developmental needs of the children in our care. Steiner’s approach to early years education encourages child-led, fantasy-based imaginative play, stimulated by natural resources.

• Famly app

  The University Nursery uses Famly – the App that brings us closer to our parents/carers, with daily updates, online learning journals and easy in app payments, all at your finger tips.

  Download the Famly App

  

• Fees

  Our fess are competitive for each room and include:

  • Quality early years care and education
  • Healthy, well balanced menu for all children, freshly prepared and cooked on site
  • Access to a wide range of quality resources and equipment
  • E-Learning journals and interactive app
  • Monthly newsletters and parent evenings
  • Free settling in sessions
  • Nappies, wipes and a variety of milk
  • Staff and student discount
  • Sibling discount

• Funding

  Childcare Fund and Lone Parent Childcare Grant
  SAAS funded Students who have Registered Childcare can apply to the Childcare Fund. This is a fund given to the University by the government to assist undergraduate and most taught postgraduate students.

  For more information please visit the Money Matters section of the University website.
   
  Funded Early Years
  Funded early learning and childcare is free to parents, but funded by the Scottish Government.

  You can get up to 1,140 hours of funded early learning and childcare a year (around 30 hours a week in term time) if your child is 3 or 4 years old. Some 2 year olds are also eligible.

  For more information, please visit the Fife Council website.

  Childcare Voucher Scheme and Other Help with Childcare Costs
  You may also be able to get help with childcare costs from other schemes. There are childcare parts of Tax Credits and Universal Credit. Tax-Free Childcare is a scheme for working parents.

  If you work, you can also check if your employer offers childcare vouchers.

  For more information please visit the mygov.scot website.

  Discounts

  • 10% Sibling discount
  • 10% Student discount
  • 10% University of St Andrews staff discount