YMCA After school club

Valentine's Day comes early at ASC!

2009-02-12T09:13:00.001-08:00

Some of the children wanted to make Valentine's day cards and other 'hearty' things this week, and as the day falls on a saturday we decided to adapt our plans and give the week a bit of a theme. We made origami boxes and baskets out of paper - learning how to fold the paper to make it stronger. Some of us decided to decorate them with hearts and sparkles whilst the rest coloured them in or drew pictures on them.

Yesterday we made biscuits - and again the Valentine's theme ran through the activity, with heart shape cutters and a fair amount of red food colouring added! They came out BEAUTIFULLY and were very tasty!

Helen x

Winter Fun

2009-02-09T07:17:00.000-08:00

Well, having promised ourselves that we would update this regularly, we failed the next week! We're very sorry...and will do our very best to type something up on a more regular basis!

To recap on the last few months, we held many events and activities during anti bullying week in November. Some of our year 6 girls organised a talk for the younger children - feeding back from what they had themselves learnt in class activities. Although our staff were present, the girls ran it all themselves and deserved the round of applause they received at the end of the session. We also made anti bullying posters and spoke about what to do if you're being bullied or if you suspect someone else is - all the children took part in this over the week and still remember what to do three months on!

We did lots of Christmas crafts and cooking, which the children enjoyed and have asked to do more often (that's cooking, not Christmas!). Since then we have made pizza bread with a range of yummy and healthy toppings and later this week we will be making some LOVE-ly sweets for valentines day gifts! We've celebrated Chinese new year with noodles and learnt the story behind why the years are named after animals.

Recently we had a visit from St Anthony's After School Club which is also run by the YMCA, and we spent most of the afternoon dancing and bouncing round the hall with balloons, dancing to High School Musical. ..good times!

We will be on half term next week but are going to be doing a project on Role Models the first week back. The children will be asked to choose 2 people who they consider to be role models - one famous and one that they actually know. We'll be talking about why they are role models, what makes a good person etc. This is part of our self awareness / confidence programme that we are running with the children. We'll update you with how that goes! (Hopefully sometime before Easter!)

Helen C xx

Anti - Bullying Week 17-21 November 2008

2008-11-11T08:57:00.000-08:00

We are currently getting ready for anti - bullying week and are busily preparing lots of different activities. So far, our plans include: drama, team games, poster making, surveys, making 'Friendship Biscuits' and some fun fact finding sheets. The children are also thinking up lots of things that they'd like to do, so our activity timetable is getting busier and busier! Check our blog during next week to see photos and reports of what we're up to!

YMCA After School Club @ Wells Primary

2008-11-11T08:30:00.000-08:00

Check out what we have been doing at the After School Club.