The Play Shelter is a childcare organisation that began in February 2001 as a response to the requests and needs of parents for quality and affordable childcare during school holidays.
The Play Shelter provides Ofsted registered childcare provisions that enable Parents/carers who work or study to access affordable childcare which is of good quality, offers good value for money and provides an excellent range of activities for children to enjoy.
The Play Shelter provides February and October Half Term, Easter and Summer holiday schemes within London based primary schools. Our schemes are of high quality and are accessible through good value.
As a result, more and more schools and parents are using The Play Shelter’s services. Our fundamental purpose is to structure and extend informal play opportunities for children aged 4 to 12 years, whilst maintaining a safe and stimulating play environment.
The Play Shelter also provides a range of services for schools and childcare organisations.
MISSION STATEMENT
The Play Shelter provides high quality Play provisions that are accessible, free from unacceptable levels of risk, yet stimulating and challenging.
We provide a program of activities, using a qualified staff team that extends children’s learning through fun experiences and varied educational opportunities, whilst recognising and responding to children’s individual needs.
The Play Shelter provides safe and reliable childcare within the constraints of appropriate facilities and resources so that parents/carers have peace of mind when their child/children are in our care.
The Play Shelter aims:
To Provide a childcare service with a difference for children and parents who attend our After School Clubs and holiday play schemes.
To provide a well organised and structured quality childcare provision.
To provide a range of opportunities that enable children to develop socially, physically, morally and intellectually.
To provide opportunities for children to progress and encourage children to explore with their imagination and creativity.
The Play Shelter has high standards when employing our staff teams. We have procedures in place to ensure that our staff team and volunteers are safe people to work with children.
The Play Shelter listens and responds to all children’s needs. We liaise with Children’s Social Care to ensure that children are not exposed to any form of potential risk.
The Play Shelter believes that children should be taught ways of keeping themselves safe from harm and we have a clear policy of working together with parents and Children’s services where there is concern about a child’s safety.
The Play Shelter is committed to working to anti discriminatory practices. Every child has the right to be happy, respected and valued.
The Play Shelter is committed to keeping children safe within a secure environment.
The Play Shelter adheres to the Health and Safety Policies set out by the Local Authorities.
The Play Shelter recognises that good behaviour is important to achieve a positive and safe environment.
The Play Shelter discourages inappropriate behaviour which we define as bullying, threatening gestures, harassment, intimidation, deliberately damaging a child or the premises/the Play Shelter’s property.
The Play Shelter will deal with unacceptable behaviour by:
The Playground strategies devised by The Play Shelter help to encourage children to enjoy their play free from disruption and/or harm and develop social, emotional and physical skills, whilst enabling the staff to interact, participate and provide the types of supervision required for a structured playground.
We provide a creche for out of hours parent meetings and school fun days.
Using our creche in schools service will help to ensure that you have more parent attendance and therefore more parents input and participation at these meetings.
The Play Shelter provide After School Club management services to support the development of your existing After School Club.
We provide experienced and qualified childcare practitioners, Senior Play Leaders and/or Centre Managers to support the development of your existing provision.
The Play Shelter provide holiday play scheme coordination services for your school or childcare organisation.
The Play Shelter provides the following training packages to support your staff team providing informal learning opportunities and experiences for the children that attend your school or childcare organisation.
Online training can be provided in the following areas:
To enhance your existing provision or support the development of a new provision, we provide the following individual services: