11th September 2026 Newsletter – Key Info Sessions this week, School Elections, FOSM AGM and more

Childcare Tax-Free Payments Update

For parents who have been making payments for wraparound care (Breakfast Club & Lions) using the Government scheme or a similar company scheme we would like to help you to understand the process a little more now that we are getting to grips with it as well.

• You pay in money to your scheme choosing St Mark’s C of E Primary School as the childcare provider (on the Government site, search by our postcode – RG22 4US).
• The scheme will send the money to Hampshire County Council.
• We receive the money onto our banking system.
• We manually add the money onto your Arbor account.
• Your Arbor balance adjusts accordingly.

As you can see, the process is much longer than before.  As long as you tell us in advance that you want to pay in this way (tell us here) we can set up Arbor to accept your bookings for Lions regardless.  The negative balance on Arbor will remain until such time as we have received and actioned the funds.  This will be happening on a regular basis from next week.  

If you use both Wraparound provisions, please email us to tell us how much you want us to credit your Breakfast Club account and how much to credit your Lions account.  That would be very helpful.