After School Care

After School Care and Holiday Club

WE HAVE A BUSY AFTER SCHOOL CARE (ASC) AND THE CHILDREN LOVE COMING TO HAVE FUN WITH THEIR FRIENDS. THEY OFTEN ASK TO STAY LONGER WHEN THEIR PARENTS ARRIVE!

Avariety of activities are offered to the children using their ideas which are collected via a mind map every month. The most popular activities include playing outside, going to the ICT suite, taking part in craft projects, role play and board games. The favourite activities indoors are crafts, role-play kitchen and dressing up. Outdoors, ‘loose parts’ are very popular and the children come up with wonderful ideas on how to use items that would otherwise be considered as junk. Leftover plastic piping was used to make a horse jumping arena, and various dens were built using tarpaulin and the tyres.

In the darker months, the children enjoy playing outside with torches and light up batons. Sometimes we tidy up early inside so we can turn the dining room into a light show.

The children who attend ASC receive a healthy snack which includes either fruit or vegetables every day. The favourite snacks at the moment are toasted waffles and popcorn. The children decide what they want on the menu each month.

Once a year, we hold a Pupil Conference where the children share more ideas and thoughts about ASC. It is tradition that the meeting is led by the oldest girls in the group. We also hold a charity event which usually involves making lots of crafts to sell.

The school Holiday Clubs run in the October, Easter and summer holidays and the children have lots of fun. We had external visitors running events such as a Slime Fest, a foam party, Nerf Wars and a dinosaur day. We have been on trips to Hazlehead Park, Easter Anguston Farm and Crathes Castle. Everyone had a lot of fun and we all look forward to planning the next club.

Sandra Thomson After School Care Manager