For Schools
Offering
As part of our services for schools we can deliver After School Clubs at your school.
Our After School Clubs provide a safe, secure and varied play environment to suit the individual needs of the children in our care. All of our clubs are unique to the children and schools that they service. We pride ourselves on the close relationship that we have with our partnership schools which helps ensure consistency of care, ethos and expectations for our shared children.
Benefits to your school
- Enables you to offer quality wrap-around care with a quality provider, without adding even more working hours to your teaching staff
- Provides additional support for working or busy parents, thus enhancing your schools quality of care reputation
- Provides additional revenue for your school, and maximises its use at a time when it is often unoccupied
- Confidence in delivering quality service through an outstanding provider that has a very experienced leadership team focused on delivering Peace of mind to Schools and parents alike.
After School Club Operating Models for your school
We offer a variety of operating models for schools that are non-invasive and dependent on the schools goals, for example
- Fully owned & operated service from The Gap Club, based on a fixed revenue model
- Fully owned & operated service from The Gap Club, with a risk & reward revenue model
- A service branded as the Schools’ service; where The Gap Club will work with you to understand your requirements and deliver a tailor made offering based on your goals
If you wish to know more or are considering operating an After School Club or changing provider, we would welcome the opportunity to discuss this with you. Please contact us at schools@thegapclub.com.
Our Offering
If your school is looking at their wraparound provision, either replacing existing provision or setting up brand new provision, we would love to talk to you to see how we can support your school, families and children.
We offer outstanding, quality childcare, and are one of the first successful providers to work with local authorities to provide out of school childcare for local schools. We have continued to remain as a leading provider and are one of the few providers who have maintained their 100% Ofsted record since opening in 2002. We are also one of the few providers that have continued to provide services for children from 3 years old which allows us to service the full school age range from 3 years – 11 years.
Nearly all our current venues have been based on word of mouth or recommendations where schools have approached us to provide quality childcare for their parents and children.
Our Service To You
We pride ourselves on being more than just a service to the schools and families that we support. We understand the practical and logistical demands and challenges that schools face and we are here to support through the various different services that we can provide. All of our clubs are unique and so our highly experienced, qualified and dedicated team will work with your school to tailor our provision to meet your needs and the needs of your families and community.
Benefits For Our Children
We fully understand and appreciate that when children finish their school day, they may want to partake in a variety of different activities from:
- simply relaxing with their friends
- completing a mindfulness activity to help them unwind
- engage in an active game to help them let off steam and have fun.
Our clubs provide our children with many different activities and zones from:
- cooking, arts and crafts and sensory play to gardening,
- role play, homework areas and large junk modelling and construction zones.
We also fill the gap between lunch and dinner by providing a healthy balanced snack every day which is made up of fruit, vegetables and a form of carbohydrate such as flatbreads, pasta, wraps or beans on toast. Our snack time is a key part of our daily routine and provides a social occasion for the children and staff to share news, interests as well as many other interesting conversations. Our snack aims to be as independent for the children as possible to support the development of their life skills such as making their own choices, spreading, cutting and even washing up!