Before & After School Care

Health & Wellbeing

BB's has a strong focus on children's health and wellbeing. Our new weekly planning has an active component, science and crafts. Also, time each afternoon for 'teambuilding / well-being' activities, as well as our usual free homework sessions.

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Stimulating

Busy Bumbles takes pride in offering a stimulating programme that caters for the needs, interest and abilities of all primary aged children. We provide age appropriate activities and resources that will allow your child to learn and grow while encouraging higher achievement. Planning and reflection of a high level is done weekly to ensure your child thrives in the activities and games that we organise. Our main priority at all times, is to ensure your child is having loads of fun and enjoying being with us! No activity is compulsory and we constantly seek feedback from the children to make sure we are running a programme that they love.

A typical morning in Before School Care

7.00am - 8.30am

• Children are signed in by their parent or caregiver and staff welcome the children.
• Some children bring their breakfast and start the morning with this.
• Then staff help the children settle into favourite activities and play alongside them. (we are constantly asking children about their interests and what resources they would like us to get for them, in order to ensure they have lots of fun while with us.)
• Children are offered an opportunity to participate in the activity and game of the week.
• Staff help the children gather their belongings, ready for school.
• Children are then walked to their classroom to start their school day.

A typical afternoon in After School Care

• Attendance roll call. Unexplained absences are investigated.
• Afternoon tea. The children sit together on a mat to eat and drink. Older children are welcome to sit at the tables. This is also a chance for children to catch up with friends and chat amongst themselves. A story is read to them as they eat and then we have sharing time where children may share about what they have done that day. (This is optional - children are free to get straight into playing following afternoon tea if they wish to.)
• Then it is time for Homework. Children are supervised and supported in completing their homework for the day. Spelling testing and listening to reading also happens then.
• Children who do not require Homework supervision, will take part in supervised free play. The children are provided with a wide range of resources and activities that will occupy, develop and entertain lively young minds. A new idea we have set up is a large box of activities that is just for older children... beados, jewelley kits, lego bionicals, science kits, scrapbooking kits etc. There already is a huge range of resources available for younger childen.
• Then if the children wish to, they take part in the activity of the week. This includes such things like baking, crafts and much more. See our Gallery pages for photos of what we get up to at Busy Bumbles.
• A Programme Carer then leads the group in the game of the week, which requires sportsmanship and fair play. Children have a chance to mix with the other children and build new friendships. If the game requires, the children will be split into age appropriate groups. Again, this is optional for the children.
• We then have 'outside time' where we might have a play on the playground, play sports or any other outside activities that they wish to do. Bubbles, skipping, hopscotch and T-Ball are just a few. We have a wide range of resources and activities for the children to partake in outside.
• To end the day, we come back inside and choose from a large variety of games and activites.

BreakAway Space Year 5’s and Over

We have a separate area at all venues that is specifically designed and set up to cater for children Year 5 and older. They have a huge array of resources aimed at older children and a separate reward system which is developed in consultation with the children themselves.