Treetops Childcare

Treetops Preschool & Extended schools Provision CIC is located next to the Village Hall at the top of Pool Hill in Bridestowe near Okehampton and sits on the edge of Dartmoor based in West Devon. The surrounding villages and local area feed the preschool with children but with our very good Ofsted report, great facilities and very experienced staff team we also have and welcome children and families from much further a field.

I have been involved with the preschool since my eldest daughter started in 2003; I became an active member of the parent committee and saw my other two children also make their way through the preschool. They all grew in confidence and esteem which aided them in their next chapter, "big school".

In 2007 I joined the staff team as the settings administrator; this was to relieve the increasing pressures on committee members who also had their own jobs and lives outside of the growing provision.I completed my Business Administration technical certificate in 2010 and love my job here at Treetops which has since, become more managerial, particularly in the day to day running of Treetops.

Treetops Preschool takes children from 2-5 years. We offer settling in sessions for children new to Treetops to allow them to become familiar with the setting and staff in their own time. We are a two year funding provider (criteria led) and EYPP registered. We also offer 5 spaces of 30 hours.

The Childcare Choices website is a useful resource and has lots of information regarding funding and support to help towards paying for childcare, in particular 20% off when you register for the childcare tax free payment scheme.Treetops is very active in the community and makes the most of getting out and about in the beautiful area that we are surrounded by.

The Breakfast Club runs, 5 days a week term time from 7.45am - 9am and we service our local schools and the preschool. Breakfast is optional and activities follow similar to that of the holiday club with games, craft and outside play. We are hoping that this service will grow so that we are able to feed more schools ourselves in the future.

The after school club is a very popular club, running in term time only from end of school time until 6pm five days a week. Numbers of children have slowly increased with it now being a very busy club full of varied activity. The children who attend really enjoy the sessions which include cooking/food preparation and play based activities again working in line with the Playwork Principles.