What happened on previous holidays?

SUMMER 2009

Summer 2009 proved to be a record breaking summer with more children than ever attending. We also had an excellent upgrade from our Ofsted inspection raising us from satisfactory to good. Despite the poor summer the children had some great fun and enjoyment. This included 3 day trips with 35 Children going to Hoo Farm, a full coach of 56 going to Cadbury's World and a nearly full coach visiting the Cheshire Ice Cream Farm and the Candle Factory. During July we had visits by the Prees Fire Service, where the children had fun climbing over the fire engine including  setting off the siren, and the RAF in their helicopter which the children were able to explore. There were several new activities including our camping day and the teddy bears picnic. Due to the poor weather some of the activities had to be done indoors but this did not spoil the children's enjoyment or dampen their enthusiasm. Next year we would like just  a little more sunshine and less rain.
 

HALF TERM OCTOBER 2010


 

Once again the October half term was very well attended with over 40 children joining us on some days carrying out a great variety of activities. The final highlight of the holiday was the Halloween party where the Children all made their own pumpkin faces and dressed up in their scary Halloween clothes. A small sample of the the Children's efforts can be seen in the picture.

CHRISTMAS 2008

The Christmas holiday activities were enjoyed by everyone and included Christmas card making, mince pie making, making decorations and decorating the sports hall. There were also some of the more active things like multi sports and games. This was all rounded off by the bumper Christmas eve party where we played several party games including hunt the Christmas pudding, had a disco and party food followed by a special visit from Santa Claus

OCTOBER 2008 HALF TERM

The October Holidays were once again well attended – closing the week with a busy Friday due to lots of Halloween Fun!  
Throughout the week more than 35 children passed through the doors to take part in a wide variety of activities including:  face painting, treasure hunt, volley ball, arts and crafts, football, making Halloween decorations, tag rugby and many more. On the Tuesday we even had an hour of snow so that we they were able to have fun playing snowballs.

Friday was an action packed day attended by 35 children who dressed up in Halloween costumes as did all the staff. The children brought in their specially carved out pumpkins and there was a prize for the best carved and also the biggest pumpkin, this was judged by John and Margaret. They also did their own face painting, cooking and played hunt the spider.

The holidays were covered by the local press. We had several photos in the Whitchurch Herald . 

We also opened for the first time on a school PD day – which was well attended for the first one. We will now be open each PD day giving parents the chance to leave their children with us whilst they return back to work for the week.

SUMMER HOLIDAYS 2008

Our summer holidays at the Club saw 6 action packed weeks of summer fun with more than 80 individuals attending over the period.

As well as our usual action packed days of sports, arts & crafts, multi activities, cooking, face painting etc we also made 3 special day trips. A day trip to Shrewsbury for a session of 10 pin bowling and a visit to the cinema. We saw 'Kung Fu Panda' which was thoroughly enjoyed by all the staff as well as the children.
We visited Anfield, home of Liverpool Football club, where 30 excited children were treated to a tour of the stadium, including changing rooms, and players tunnel. We also went Chester Zoo where the children had a great day seeing all the animals, many for the first time, including a ride in the anti poaching land rover

We had special visitors coming into the club which included a visit from Prees Fire Service who came down to the Club in the Fire Engine to give a Fire Safety talk. We had a  look around the engine with the children also getting involved by having a go each with the fire hose and then getting kitted out in the full fireman's outfit too. We also had a visit from Andy- a vet from the Leonard Brothers vets practice in Whitchurch. Andy gave the children a talk on how to care for their pets and the children also asked a string of questions they had previously prepared to do with their own pets and his job.

The summer came to a close with a presentation evening and BBQ.  Special awards were made to the following children:
Alex and Lauren Cadman, who were both new to the club, for settling in so well, excellent sportsmanship, politeness and good manners. Luke Grocott won the award for the "most appearances". He attended the club on more occasions than anybody else this holiday.  Lewis Jones 12 won "Sportsman of the summer" award. Lewis always joined in every sport, always encouraging others, never complaining and always smiling. Well done Lewis