Forest School Pricing

Forest School Pricing Information

We are open 50 weeks a year, 7.30am-5.30pm and offer full time and term time contracts. We take children from their 2nd birthday.

We also save a small number of places for home educated children.

Fee Structure:
Foresteers’ Outdoor Pre School pricing from April 2026

Contracts available:
Full Time* (50 weeks)
Term Time – follows Sheffield school holidays + 5 additional unfunded days in Autumn term split across the term. Closed for 2 weeks at Christmas and bank holidays

Charges summary:

• £65 admin fee including waterproof suit, settling in sessions and login to tapestry,opt out available, families must provide their own waterproofs, spare waterproofs, settling in sessions chargeable at £13 per hour. For families that opt out a statutory progress review at 2 year olds then an annual written report will be provided.
• £72 – school day 9am-4pm all ages – includes forest school fee
  FEL/WPE hours 9am-4pm or 7.30am- 5.30am term time only
• £6.50 – Dawn Birds 7.30am-8am
• £6.50 – Breakfast Club 8am-9.8.30am
• £6.50 – Breakfast Club 8.30am-9am
• £6.50 Tea Club 4pm-4.30pm
• £6.50 Tea Club 4.30pm-5pm
• £6.50 – Roosting Birds 5pm-5.30pm
• £35 forest school daily fee for 2, 3 and 4 year olds – added to invoice
• £50 forest school daily fee 7.30am-5.30am – added to invoice
• £3.50 lunch per day (optional, term minimum)
• £10 additional session you book if on a term time contract and you book additional sessions during the holidays at preschool
• £13 per hour outside of any funding between 9am-4pm, subject to availability (optional, booking through email)

*If you choose a full time contract and use funding you will pay the day rate through the holidays
**Our forest school fee is used to deliver a forest school early years education with forest school trained practitioners, risky play, tool use and safe fire campfire cooking built in to every day.

• Additional Fees paid costs
  Admin Fee (opt in or out – includes outdoor suit and login to online tapestry journal) – One off £65
  Foresteers Lunch (optional) Monthly – £.3.50 per day
  Payment scheme admin fee (if paying through a childcare scheme or government scheme) – Monthly £2.50

If you have queries about our fees or feel the fee is a barrier to your child attending then please get in touch as families are dealt with on an individual basis.