Fees at RMS for Girls

At Ruspini, we offer a warm, inspiring and enriching environment, with outstanding care, excellent education and a breadth of specialist-led enrichment experiences. We believe a premium early years education should be seamless, comprehensive and transparent. Our fee structure provides clear access to our wider programme of specialist experiences, with all additional costs transparently disclosed.

What Your Fees Include:

• A Bespoke Enrichment Curriculum: Specialist-taught sessions in Music, Physical Education, and Modern Foreign Languages are integrated into the school week.
• Nutritional Excellence: A nutritionally balanced menu featuring a two-course hot lunch and healthy snacks, prepared on-site to support cognitive and physical growth.
• A Resource-Rich Environment: All high-quality learning materials, digital portfolios, and pedagogical resources are provided.
• Individualised Care: Higher than statutory staffing levels enable our team to know each child exceptionally well and respond to their individual needs, interests and development.

To ensure children settle well and benefit fully from our curriculum, we request the following minimum
attendance requirements:

• Pre-School (Age 2-3): Minimum of 5 sessions per week (mornings or afternoons).
• Nursery (Age 3-4): Minimum of 8 sessions per week (must include at least 4 mornings).
• Important: Afternoon sessions (12:45–15:45) are only available if your child also attends the morning session (08:30–12:45) on that same day.

All children are eligible for 15 universal funded hours starting the term after their third birthday. These hours are applied to morning sessions from 08:30–11:30.

Funding notices:

• Funding is available during the Ruspini term time – dates are published in advance
• Funded hours are available in the Morning 1 sessions only (08:30–11:30)
• Families may choose a funded‑only place, which includes:
  ○ The full funded early education entitlement, delivered in accordance with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) requirements
  ○ No meals, snacks, additional activities or consumables
  ○ No additional hours or sessions
  ○ We ask that families do not bring food from home due to our allergy policy
• If government funding is withdrawn or not claimed due to insufficient documentation, full fees will become payable.

Voluntary Contributions for Funded Sessions

Government funding enables us to provide your child’s funded early years education and childcare
entitlement. This entitlement is not intended to cover certain additional items, consumables and services,
such as:

• Meals and snacks consumed by your child
• Specialist lessons, enrichment activities and events
• Nappy disposal, spare nappies/wipes
• Other additional consumables and resources

We offer these additional items and experiences to families accessing our funded morning sessions and invite parents to make a voluntary contribution towards them. Any contribution is optional and not a condition of accessing your child’s place. There is no charge for accessing your child’s funded hours.

We believe additional experiences, specialist activities and resources add significant value to your child’s time with us, providing opportunities that enrich their learning development and enjoyment.

*Specialist activity – Specialist-taught sessions in Music, Physical Education, and Modern Foreign.

Languages are integrated into the school week during the Morning 1 sessions. If a funded child participates in paid sessions and stays for the remainder of a morning (11:30-12:45) the following charges would also apply. This disclosure hopefully aids parents in understanding our charges for paid sessions.

Charging Policies

• Invoicing: Fees are invoiced termly and are due before the first day of each term.
• Notice Period: A full term’s written notice is required to cancel a place or reduce sessions. Fees in lieu of notice apply if this is not met.
• Sibling Discount: A 5% discount is available for the younger Ruspini pupil.
• Childcare Vouchers: These can be used toward payment of Nursery fees.
• Additional sessions: All regular sessions should be booked a term in advance where possible.
• Ad‑hoc sessions: These are subject to availability and attract a slightly higher fee – see table below.
• Full day week discounts: Termly fees include an average discount for a full day week
  (08:30-15:45) of £380, or a full day week with breakfast, tea and/ or late club (£795) – based on a 12
  week term.

To assist with your planning, the following table summarises the total “price you pay” per term for our most common attendance patterns. These prices are inclusive of funded hours at nil cost and additional voluntary charges for funded sessions. Our termly charges reflect the number of weeks in each term. Our termly weeks for the academic year 2026/27 are as follows:

If you require consistent extended care, these sessions are booked for the full term. As set out above we have full week discounts for full day weeks with extended day care when booked for a full term.

For families who only need care occasionally, we offer ad-hoc bookings (subject to availability).

Seasonal Care

• Term dates are published annually in advance
• Holiday Camps: We offer exclusive Easter and Summer holiday camps for our current pupils
• Availability: Detailed dates and separate fees for these camps are published annually