Who are we?

We are a voluntary organisation with Scottish Charity status and our management committee is made up entirely of local parents. We are regulated by the Care Commission. We are accredited with both the “Aiming High” Quality Assurance in childcare and “Investors in People” awards. We offer a high quality, affordable Community Nursery, Holiday Club, Teen Club and Before and After School care facility for children attending Loanhead, Paradykes, St.Margaret’s, Roslin and Bilston primary schools. Our dedicated staff team are all fully qualified and experienced.

What do we do?

We provide for children aged 2 -5 Nursery we use and follow the 0-3 standards an we have the 3-5 curriculum in place for the 3-5 years, we provide for 5-14 years in our After School Club care with many varied activities. We aim to address their physical, social, emotional and creative needs. We do this by organising activities like, arts and crafts, trips to local parks, physical activities like football, basketball and games, we provide a homework club, we organise board games, quizzes, and many opportunities for free play and imaginative games. We promote fair play, inclusion and respect. Children have full involvement in deciding the programme of activities and events. We are a fully integrated service and welcome children with additional needs.

At breakfast club we provide a nourishing breakfast which includes fruit juice, a choice of cereals and toast and a piece of fruit for play piece. We then organise games and activities, or supervise homework until it is time to take them to school. we also encourage teeth brushing with a tooth brush bus in there each child has there own named tooth brush.

We provide the After School Club and Community Nursery children with a snack and then organise activities and trips for them. We have a new outdoor play area soft tarmac and new climbing frame in our Community Garden which is used on a daily bases so that's as often as the weather permits! We also make use of local facilities and play parks.

We now operate from three bases one at Loanhead Community Learning Centre in Loanhead our satellite club at Roslin Pavilion in Roslin and our new Ramsay Campus located Edgefield Road Loanhead.

We are a registered charity and rely on the fees paid by parents to run the club. We aim to keep the fees as low as possible by applying for funds from various charitable trusts and organisations.

When do we do it?

Our Community Nursery operates from 9am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday although we can offer an extended hours service on request (7am-7pm including Saturday Full Day). Our After Schools Clubs operate slightly different hours depending on the day and location. Our normal opening hours are summarised below:

Should you require extended hours (7am-7pm), please contact us for details.

During the holidays we operate as one club based at Loanhead Community Learning Centre.

Take a look at some of the activities the children get up to in our new Gallery

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