Before school
Breakfast club opens at 7.30am and the door will not be opened until this time. Please do not enter the setting or leave you child unattended. The entrance is via the fire doors in the Main Hall. Children are welcome to bring any snack with them to eat when they are in session but please note that no sharing of snacks is allowed, and we do recommend that children have their breakfast before arriving.
Happy Days does not provide any food during before school sessions. The session is very relaxed and all about making sure the children feel ready for the day ahead at school. Colouring, card games and other ‘quiet’ activities will be on offer.
Once it is time to start school everyone will collect their belongings. Junior children will then be sent off to their classrooms whilst staff will hand over any Infant children to their teachers. Staff will make sure everyone enters their classrooms safely and will pass any messages onto teachers that are needed/relevant.
After school
All children are collected from outside the headteachers office where they are brought by their teachers. All children then walk a few metres across to the preschool building on school site accompanied by a minimum of two staff members. Once arriving back at the setting, a snack of either low sugar biscuits or rice cakes and water bottle refills will be available.
Please note it is two snacks per child, but parents/carers are more than welcome to pack additional/different snacks if they would like to.
A specialised play or craft activity will be available for the children to partake in every session. It is the child’s individual choice if they would like to partake in the planned activity or not. Other games and toys will be available as well as a chance to simply relax if needed after a long day at school.
The private outdoor space (inside the preschool outside play area) is utilized well and an ‘open door policy’ will be implemented for the garden on afternoons whenever possible. The field is also used as another outdoor space when the weather allows it.
Upon collection you will be informed of what was done during the session and if there were any problems/issues or messages to be passed on from the school. Collection must happen by 5.55pm in order to allow time for a proper handover. If collection takes place after 6pm you will be charged an additional fee at a rate of £15 per 15 minutes.
Voucher Payments
We accept Childcare Vouchers, Tax Free Childcare and the armed services Wraparound Care Scheme.