| Activities |
| Panda-Monium Childcare Services |
| 5-8 |
| The PC Children are allowed to use the PC to play games (either on CDRoms or on the internet) or to create with words or pictures. They are always supervised and are limited to 15 minutes at a time (or to a save point of a game if relevant) |
| As children are often tired after a day at school, we don't expect too much from them! |
| A sample week: Monday PS2 Tuesday The PC Wednesday The music corner Thursday The PC Friday Front room TV (With Sky!) |
| Each week, they will have the chance to use facilities that the 8+ children try to hog! Depending on what children we have and what the favourite activities are, this may be a regular, set day for each activity or it may vary from week to week. This does not mean they can't use them the rest of the week just that they will have priority over the older children at these times. |
| Television We prefer that children do more than just sit in front of the television the whole time so will limit time allowed if we feel it necessary. The front room TV has Sky but also the PS2 so if children have favourite Sky programmes they need to put them on the timetable to ensure they can watch them. Again, this will be limited if one child is choosing lots of programmes. There is also a TV in the upstairs playroom with a video player but this does not have Sky (yet...) |
| The Music Corner This is in the study and although the children do have access to it, sometimes it has to be limited for everybody's sanity! It is timetabled for this age group to ensure that they DO get a chance to make music. |
| Every day children have free access to the under 5's activities, upstairs playroom TV, free drawing, books and the garden. In addition, different activities will be offered daily. |
| A sample week: Monday Cooking, train set and a puzzle Tuesday Model making, Barbies and playing cards Wednesday Bubble painting, doll's house and a board game Thursday Dough, dressing up and putting on a show Friday Sewing, puppets and word puzzles |
| These are not set in stone, so if nobody wanted to play with the train set and they asked for the doll's house, that would be fine. We do try to encourage compromise rather than each child playing with something different! |
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