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Welcome to Ashton Gate Out of School Care - winner Best Playscheme Award 2007 (Bristol Holiday Playschemes) and Breakfast Club Award 2007 (Kelloggs).

Ashton Gate Out of School Care supports parents and carers by providing wraparound care for children aged four to eleven.

Our small team of trained and dedicated Playworkers are committed to providing high quality care in a child-centred play setting that promotes equality of opportunity for all - but which is first and foremost, fun!

Based in a self-contained building within the grounds of Ashton Gate Primary School, we offer a Breakfast Club and After School Club to pupils of the school and a Holiday Club which is also open to children from the wider community.

AGOSC is managed by an elected committee of parents and bound by a Constitution. We are regulated by and registered with OFSTED. A copy of our registration certificate is on display at the setting at all times.


Reception Half Day-care


AGOSC are pleased to inform you that, for the first time, we will be providing half-daycare for the first week of the new school year (w/c 7th September) while reception children are doing half-days in school.

Sessions will run 9am - 12.45am and 11.45pm - 3pm. Children will also be able to use Breakfast and After School Club if required.

The cost of a session will be just £8. This includes a healthy snack and drink but children will need to bring a packed lunch.

A member of AGOSC staff will escort children to/from their classrooms at the beginning/end of the session.

If you are interested in using the club please sign up to our mailing list or contact us on 0117 983 3426, ashtongateosc@gmail.com or pop in to the Caretakers House.


Bristol Standard

The club has recently been awarded the Bristol Standard for Over 5's. This is a quality assurance scheme that recognises the clubs commitment to best practice and continual improvement. 


Cleaner Needed

3 hours per week
£6 p/h, paid holiday, flexible working hours
For more information please contact Hannah on 0117 9833426 or ashtongateosc@gmail.com

Policies and Procedures

To view the club's various operational policies please follow this link

Newsletter

To download a copy of our lastest newsletter -

Play Bites

We would like our families to know more about playwork. On each newletter and here on the website we will be providing a 'play bite' - a piece of information about play that we think you might like to read. If there is anything you would like us to include in the future or any questions you have please contact us and we will do our best to answer.

PLAY BITE no.3

What are the ‘Play Types’?

 There are acknowledged to be a number of different play types (around 16) which provide playworkers and others with a common language for describing play. These include: Fantasy Play – play which rearranges the world in the child’s way, a way which is unlikely to occur; Locomotor Play – movement in any or every direction for its own sake; Social Play – play during which the rules and criteria for social engagement and interaction can be revealed, explored and amended. Playworkers learn about the play types and aim to provide opportunities for children to experience them.

 

Next time: What are the benefits of play?