PLAY POLICY

 

At Ashtead and Greville kids club we advocate and understand our children's need to play.

 

How do we promote play?

 

At our setting we endeavour to make sure children have access to play opportunities and different play types at all times, we rotate our play resources daily as well as the spaces we provide.

 

The children at our setting have the ultimate choice to partake in play, we believe that play should be self-directed. Sometimes it may appear that the playworkers at the setting are not involved with children's play, please be assured this is to allow your child to develop their own play, uninterrupted and free of adult rules and reasoning. However if your child invites us to play we will happily accept!

 

How do we support your children's play needs?

 

We care what our children think and value their opinion when providing play spaces, resources and opportunities, we do this by holding regular meetings with the children.  We also provide children with spider grammes, questionnaires and design sheets.  This is done regularly and informally where children are encouraged to share ideas with each other as well as with the playworkers.  The children's ideas are reviewed and implemented where possible. We make sure that all our play opportunities are inclusive to all the children at our setting.

 

Play rota and play types:

 

At our setting we provide the children with a play rota which changes per term, this is an opportunity for children to take part in a vast amount of activities, you can always find a copy of our rota at the notice board.  Our playworkers will encourage children to access various play types including imaginative, physical, social and natural.  Can we remind you that children may get messy, muddy and scruffy so please make sure you check out what we are doing and make sure they are dressed for the occasion! We do provide aprons for cooking and craft. 

 

At our setting children regularly have access to outdoor areas.  Please make sure you send your child with suitable clothing, dependent on the weather.  Don't forget to name your child's belongings as we have limited storage for lost property.

 

The kids club will not deter children from encountering risky  or rough and tumble play as we understand it to be important to children's development.  This type of play focuses less on fighting, which it can sometime be mistaken for, but more on physicality such as touch, body strength, flexibility and tickling.  This type of play will be monitored and supervised as it is higher risk.  Some of the activities we do are catch, football, sock wrestling and foam battles.