Sparks Inc

Registration

In order to use our service you will need to register your children with us. This involves filling in an annual booking and registration form with your contact details, your child’s specific requirements etc. Download booking form (DOC) For your child/rens safety, we also ask you to specify which adults are permitted to pick them up at the end of the session. As Afterschool club places are allocated on a ‘first come first served’ basis. You keep your place until you decide you no longer wish to use the service any longer. If you do not gain a place on your chosen day, you will be placed on a waiting list and informed if a place becomes available.

Administrative costs for registration are £15 for single child and £25 for two or more children, and this is non-refundable. Once the registration is complete, your children can enjoy both the afterschool and holiday club services for the rest of that school year! (subject to available places).

Booking Arrangements

After School Club

You will have been notified which days your child has a place at the afterschool club (and whether you are on the waiting list). Once a place has been allocated, you will be invoiced for all possible attendances during a month, even if your child does not attend. Sparks Inc requires one months notice for cancellation as it affects our staffing ratios. One months notice is also need to permanently swap an afterschool day, and this is obviously subject to availability. Unfortunately, sessions cancelled or not used for any reason without a months notice cannot be refunded.

We invoice the Afterschool sessions a month in advance. Invoices are sent out by 25th of the previous month to your email address. If places are available, you can book at short notice by contacting Sparks Inc on: 0117 9244439.

Extra sessions will be added to the next months invoice. As we are a non-profit making organization, we do rely on fees being paid promptly. This should be within two weeks of being invoiced, i.e in the first week of the month you are being invoiced for unless an arrangement is made with the leader in charge. Please speak to us confidentially if you are experiencing financial hardship.

Payment Methods

Please make cheques payable to Sparks Inc. You can also pay using an internet transfer using the following details: If using transfer method, please use your surname in reference section. If returning by post, please send to: Ashley House, Ashley Down Road, BS7 9BG or email: coopsparks@gmail.com.

Term & holiday dates

2011/2012 school year (starting 1 September 2011)

• Term 1 Thursday 1 September to Friday 21 October 2011
• Term 2 Monday 31 October to Friday 16 December 2011
• Term 3 Tuesday 3 January to Friday 10 February 2012
• Term 4 Monday 20 February to Friday 30 March 2012
• Term 5 Monday 16 April to Friday 1 June 2012
• Term 6 Monday 11 June to Thursday 19th July 2012

Schools will also be closed for the following public holidays:

• 25 December 2012 - Christmas Day
• 26 December 2012 - Boxing Day
• 1 January 2013 - New Year's Day Holiday
• 29 March 2013 - Good Friday
• 1 April 2013 - Easter Monday
• 6 May 2013 - Early May Bank Holiday
• 27 May 2013 - Spring Bank Holiday
• 26 August 2013 - Summer Bank Holiday

2012/2013 school year (starting 3 September 2012)

• Term 1 Monday 3 September to Wednesday 24 October 2012
• Term 2 Monday 5 November to Friday 21 December 2012
• Term 3 Monday 7 January to Friday 8 February 2013
• Term 4 Monday 18 February to Friday 22 March 2013
• Term 5 Monday 8 April to Friday 24 May 2013
• Term 6 MMonday 3 June to Wednesday 24 July 2013

Schools will also be closed for the following public holidays:

• 26 December 2011 - Boxing Day
• 27 December 2011 - in lieu of Christmas Day 
• 2 January 2012 - New Year's Day Holiday
• 6 April 2012 - Good Friday
• 9 April 2012 - Easter Monday
• 7 May 2012 - Early May Bank Holiday
• 4 June 2012 - Spring Bank Holiday
• 5 June 2012 - Diamond Jubilee Holiday  
• 27 August 2012 - Summer Bank Holiday