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FUN & FRIENDSHIP
The safe and engaging childcare that you need with the fun and exciting activities that children love.
“I just wanted to take the time to say thank you for the summer clubs. My girls had a wonderful time. This summer was the first summer I’ve had to plan holiday camps for the girls and so I was trialling a number of different ones. Not only did you offer great value for money, but the guys that greeted us each day were far more switched on, polite and professional...
I will definitely be coming back to you in the future and recommending you to other parents, so thank you to you and your team! Have a great day and I look forward to booking the girls in again.“Mrs H – Holiday Club Mum
“[my son] had a great time on the Wednesday. So much so that he asked to go back on the Thursday with his sister. They both had a great time so thank you so much for offering these holiday sessions. Your coaches are great! “
Mrs B – Holiday Club Mum
Bury’s premium holiday club provider, led by expert professional Schools and Academy coaches.
In partnership with Abbeycroft Leisure and Skyliner Sports Centre.
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The essentials (compare us with other providers):
- Outstanding and experienced staff that normally deliver our Schools Support, Academy and Community programmes:
– Enhanced childcare DBS checked
– Safeguarding certified
– First aid trained
– Activity qualified - By far the best local indoor and outdoor facilities and equipment:
– Air conditioned four court sports hall
– Full size astro turf sports pitch
– Outdoor hard courts
– Inflatable skills pitch
– Mini-cinema set-up
– E-sports arena
– Balls, bats, rackets and nets for multi sport programmes
– Large format games and toys for break-out and rest periods - Social and collaborative activites for girls and boys of varied ages
- Option for football focus and other advanced sports camps for aspiring children
- Special creative play activity days – artistic and ‘culinary’
- Customer rated “Outstanding”*
- Comprehensive sports authority insurance
For further details on our Holiday Clubs see below. For schedule information and bookings see our online shop.
Themes of Provision
- Fun, exciting and engaging
- Unique variety and choice
- Challenging and educational
Our varied sport and game activites provide fun and learning during school holidays for children aged seven to eleven. Our first class staff, who also deliver our football Academy and primary schools programmes, ensure expert and reliable service.
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A Typical Day
A general format structures the time your child has with us, but this is influenced by the preferences of the specific group of children on the day, the weather and the availability of facilities/equipment.
Although our holiday club days have football at their core, there are lots of other sports on offer throughout the day. The schedule may include: badminton, baseball, basketball, bowls, cricket, golf, handball, hockey, netball, rounders, rugby, table tennis, tennis, track and field, volleyball, and more.
Registration occurs in our base room from 8.45am until around 9.30am and during that time the coaches encourage the children to interact with one another by tasking them to plan the first activity. The day’s physical activity periods last between an hour and an hour and a half, with essential rest and sustenance breaks in-between. Incidental films are shown during breaks with other activities being available such as Xbox, Playstation, Wii Sport, art and craft, traditional boardgames, puzzles and equipment.
The first physical acivity is often a free-play group activity. A break follows, after which there is a group activity either outdoors or in the sports hall. Depending on the intensity and duration of the activities more than one break may be taken. An hour lunchbreak starts at around 12.30pm.
The afternoon begins with another period of outdoor football free-play followed and then more group activities. The last activity period is normally taken indoors. Children are then ready for collection from the break room from 4.45pm.
Academy Soccer and Specialised Sport Camps
Academy Soccer and Specialised Sport Camps run alongside holiday club days at Skyliner. Please book these separately in our online shop. The Academy camps run with free childcare for the hours before and after, and the Girls-only camp benefits by having free early drop-off. Example camps:
– Academy Goalkeepers
– Academy Soccer
– Girls-Only Football
– Tennis
– Cricket
– Basketball
General information
School years 1 to 6. Numbers limited – Early booking advised.
All club days are subject to minimum and maximum booking numbers.
Themes: See Holiday Clubs page for descriptions of club days.
Times: full day 9am to 5pm
>>>>>>half day 4 hrs, 9am to 1pm or 1pm to 5pm
>>>>>>mini day 2 hrs, 9am to 11am
Prices: full day £28
>>>>>>half day £18
>>>>>>mini day £11
Availability
The availability of places on each day is published on the product page in our online shop. The information is up-to-date within 12 hours, as either: good availability (over six places), some availability (up to 3 places) or NO PLACES.
Joining instructions
Any special information and guidance about the days you’ve booked will be emailed to you before your first day. Otherwise our standard joining instructions will apply. To see these click here.
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Terms and booking instructions
– Term 1: Book at least 21 days in advance for 3 for 2 offer
– Term 2: Cancel with 21 days notice full refund
– Term 3: Cancel within 21 days no refund
Terms and Conditions
All normal general terms apply for participants and if applicable parents/carers – See Terms & Conditions.
Q & A
You may find it useful to the know the answers of these common questions.
Q1 Would my child enjoy your Holiday Club; she’s not into football?
A1 Although each holiday club day contains a variety of sports by design football is a repeating feature throughout. This is because we are a football based organisation and most of our holiday club customers also attend our football academy, or partner football club. However, we also work in schools delivering all sorts of extracurricular clubs and PE lessons which brings us a different group of children, and we therefore cater for these children too.
Q2 Would my child be okay to attend Holiday Club; he will be five years old but not yet school year one until several more months?
A2 We design our holiday club days to be appropriate for children that are in school year one and above. However, this is only a guide and where a younger child is emotionally, socially and physically developed enough to be with us, then we’re happy for you to book. All children must be able to follow the coaches’ group instructions without any special or individual attention being needed.
Q3 What are your rules of supervision?
A3 As you’d expect during activities and rest periods the children are supervised constantly throughout the day. Our holiday club group use the facilities within the building that are not directly accessible by the public. Please note that the refreshment vending machines and cold water dispenser are in public areas and our coaches aren’t able to leave the main group and accompany individuals if they wish to use them. Therefore only children given prior parental/carer permission will be allowed to leave the group to use the vending machines. When group activities are taking place away from our base room, e.g. on the astro, permission to visit the toilet or fetch personal equipment/clothing from the base room will only be given to individual children aged 8 and above; children younger than this will be assigned two older ‘buddies’ to accompany them.
Q4 Can you guarantee the security of high value items such as smart phones and fitness devices?
A4 We require explicit written permission at the time of booking for children to use these items during holiday club time (use the Special Needs box on the online booking form). We don’t take responsibility for improper use, damage or loss.
Q5 What is your lost property policy?
A5 All items of lost property are deposited at Skyliner reception. This enables you to collect your property beyond the times of Holiday Club whenever the facility is open. There is no direct phone line to Skyliner reception but you can check in person for lost items during all opening times.
* Majority option Sporting Trust feedback review 2019.