✨ Key Details:

• Operating Hours: 3:15pm until 5:45pm
• Location: The Hub which is on the junior playground

🎨 Activities Include:

• Sports & outdoor play
• Arts & crafts
• Games & social activities
• Homework support

👨‍👩‍👦 Supervision: Run by experienced school staff to ensure a safe and supportive atmosphere.

💰 Fees & Payment: All payments need to be made on Arbor in advance

• Cost per session: £10 per session
• Payment methods: Using Arbor- all payments must be made in advance
• Cancellations: We must have 24 hours notice if you need to cancel
• Tax-free Childcare Vouchers will be accepted as payment 

🚒 Pickup & Dismissal:

• Pick up: After School Club leaders will pick the children up from each class.
• Collection point: Please come to the pedestrian gate in the school car park where there will be an intercom. Buzz through and a member of staff will bring your child to you. 
• Late collection policy: The late policy will start at 5:50pm. There will be an immediate £10 charge and then another £10 added every 10 minutes. Persistent lateness will result in a child's place being withdrawn.

🍽 Snacks & Meals: Children can have a piece of fruit or biscuit as well as a drink straight after school. Children can also enjoy a light meal prepared by the staff. The menu will be on a two weekly rotation. There will also be a vegetarian option and allergies and intolerances will be catered for. 

⚠ Emergency Contact Information:

• During school office opening hours (8.00am to 4.00pm, please call the main school number on 01692 403013.
• From 4.00pm onwards please call the After School Care emergency phone on 01692 400453 Please note that text messages are not an acceptable method of communication regarding collection arrangements. 

Health and Safety:

The school will ensure that all members of staff at the school are aware of their responsibilities and duties as set out in the Trust’s Health and Safety Policy. All members of staff will be responsible for:

• Recording incidents, accidents and near misses. 

• Maintaining a safe environment for children and adults.

• Taking part in any relevant health and safety training.

Safeguarding: 

The school will consistently operate on the basis that safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility.

The school will ensure that its wraparound childcare provision is a safe and happy place for children, that parents feel confident that their child is well looked after and that robust safeguarding arrangements are in place.

The school will ensure that all members of staff and volunteers are suitable to be working with children in wraparound care – anyone without the appropriate checks will be supervised by a member of staff who is permitted to undertake regulated activity with children.

Child protection and safeguarding extends to all wraparound care provision, and the school will ensure that all staff and volunteers involved in the provision of wraparound care have read and adhere to the Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy.

The Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy is provided to all staff and volunteers involved in wraparound care upon induction.

The school is aware that it is responsible for ensuring appropriate safeguarding policies and processes are in place, and that its arrangements for child protection will apply to any childcare provision provided by the school on-site. 

The school will ensure that it:

• Follows the statutory guidance in KCSIE.

• Meets the Childcare Register’s requirements, even if it is not eligible for registration on the Childcare Register.

• Makes sure that all staff receive safeguarding training and that they know the identity of the DSL, or deputies, and how to contact them.

• Makes sure that all staff, including volunteers, have obtained an enhanced DBS check.

• Makes sure it has appropriate policies and procedures in place to identify and deal with safeguarding incidents quickly.

• Follows the safeguarding and welfare requirements within the EYFS statutory framework when children in Reception year or younger are being cared for.

• Ensures that volunteers are properly supported and given appropriate roles, and that it continues to follow the checking and risk assessment process set out in part three of KCSIE.

• Prohibits a volunteer who has not been checked be left unsupervised or allowed to work in regulated activity.

Admissions 

Wraparound Care is available to all pupils on our roll, on a first come, first served basis. There is capacity for 30 children from a combination of the Infant and Junior Schools. 

Food Offer

When offering food and drink as part of after-school wraparound childcare, the school will:

·         Ensure it meets the appropriate food regulations.

·         Ensure that anyone handling food receives appropriate supervision and training in food hygiene.

·         Provide healthy and nutritious food that meet the requirements for The School Food Regulations 2014.

·         Comply with allergen regulations and:

-        Be aware of pre-existing food allergies, intolerances or coeliac disease.

-        Have processes in place to ensure the availability of safe food options.

·         Minimise the chance of choking incidents when looking after children aged 5 years old and under by making sure:

-        Staff know how to prepare food appropriately for their age and development.

-        Children are within the sight and hearing of a member of staff when eating.

·         Be aware of any medical, religious or cultural requirements when considering individual pupils’ needs.

Arrivals and departures

Staff will escort children from the main school building over to the Hub. 

·                 Where there are children booked to attend the club, but have not arrived, the club will call the children’s parents immediately.

·         Where parents cannot be contacted, and the whereabouts of any children remains unknown, the club will follow the our usual safeguarding procedures.

The school will have the following procedures in place for when children leave after-school club:

·         Upon registration to the school, parents will be expected to provide authorised person information which will outline:

-        The names and contact numbers of any individuals authorised to collect their children from the club on their behalf.

-        Brief descriptions of each authorised individual

·         If someone other than the person registered is collecting the child, staff must be notified by the registered person in advance. The registered person must also provide a description of the individual and confirm the password.

·         If the registered person is running late, staff must be notified before the end of the collection period by the registered person. If no notification is received, the club will follow their internal procedures.

Due to the opening hours, we will not permit children to leave the premises unaccompanied and walk home on their own.