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Bletchingdon Merton WO Other activities Children’s Centres Murcott There are many activities and events suitable for families with children Children’s centres, which can be found all across , provide a in Oxfordshire. Museums, libraries and leisure centres often have special range of services for children under five and their families including ‘drop Charlton-on-Otmoor events for young children and families in the holidays. Play Day events in’ sessions, activities, information and support. During school holidays are free outdoor events suitable for all ages of children and young people. centres may provide extra activities which can sometimes include older Thrupp Hampton Poyle These are being planned in various places in the county over the summer. children. To find your nearest children’s centre contact Oxfordshire Oddington Leys Play Day is 26 July, 11-3 at Park. Play Rangers also Family Information Service or visit www.oxonchildrenscentres.org.uk run sessions in a few outdoor areas - these are free and provide materials for children to use in their free outdoor play. Help for disabled children Bladon The Inclusion Support Scheme aims to promote inclusion and remove Islip summer playscheme Community Childcare and Play (central area) the barriers to play, childcare and leisure for disabled children and young Supports the development, quality improvement and sustainability of people. It is short-term financial support, available through Oxfordshire out of school hours childcare providers and childminders. Also provides County Council to pay for additional staff hours, fees, equipment or, in location guide* business development support to early years group providers after school some instances, transport. This is up to a maximum of £250 for children clubs, holiday playschemes, childminders and pre-schools. Contact under five, or £500 for older children and young people per child/young 01865 323004 or E: [email protected] person per financial year. Contact 01865 323004 or Woodeaton E: [email protected] The information in this leaflet is as available on the date of publication. There may be other schemes which will run that are not listed as the There is an accessible childcare information officer at the Family information was not available at the time of printing. Similarly, there may Information Service who can help parents of disabled children access also be some schemes listed that may not subsequently run. Contact childcare and activities including holiday playschemes. Beckley Oxfordshire Family Information Service for further details on these schemes and others across Oxfordshire. Childminders Childminders may be able to care for children during school holidays. Parents are advised to check with providers on the suitability Contact Oxfordshire Family Information Service for more information. 7 of the scheme including what checks are made on staff. 22 8 Paying for Childcare Eynsham Stanton St John Parents may be able to use tax 5 credits and childcare vouchers Swinford 29 21 for many schemes 33 Marston 14 25 38 34 Forest Hill 20 30 13 Oxfordshire Family Information Service (OxonFIS) 32 Holton can provide free information, advice and assistance on: Oxford 39 19 6 4 Botley OXFORD 40 Wheatley • childcare e.g. holiday playschemes, childminders, nurseries etc. 12 (we can provide you with details of provision in your area) 1 summer playscheme North Village 11 • paying for childcare; including information on free nursery 2 31 education for 3 & 4 year olds 28 10 • working parents’ rights and options 15 Horspath • family and parenting support guide 2012 24 • leisure activities for families West End 17 • If you need extra help to find childcare for instance if your 26 23 18 9 child is disabled or English is not your first language, Cowley Oxfordshire Family Information Service may be able to provide 36 35 16 a more in–depth service to help you find suitable childcare. Eaton 37 • Also if you are interested in working in childcare e.g. in playschemes, out of school clubs, preschools or as a 3 childminder or homechildcarer. 27 Denton Kennington Oxfordshire Family Information Service Sandford-on-Thames 08452 262636 Appleton Wootton [email protected] Toot Baldon www.oxonfis.org.uk

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Drayton Long Wittenham Barnardos Community Based Short 1 Community Association Playscheme 8 Larkrise Primary School Holiday Playscheme 15 Premier Sports Group (Oxford) 25 Super Camps @ Oxford High School 33 Break Scheme @ John Watson Cutteslowe Community Centre, 31 Wren Road, Oxford Larkrise Primary School, Boundary Brook Road, Oxford OX4 4AN Court Place, Farm Marsh Lane, Headington, Oxford OX3 0NQ Oxford High School for Girls, Belbroughton Road, Oxford OX2 6XA John Watson School, Littleworth Road, Wheatley, Oxford OX2 7SX T: 01865 311172 E: [email protected] T: 01865 721476 E: [email protected] T: 08452 641152 E: [email protected] T: 01235 832222 E: [email protected] OX33 1NN T: 01865 452725 Age: 5 - 18 years Age: 5 – 11 years W: www.larkrise.oxon.sch.uk Age: 3 – 11 years www.premiersportsgroup.com W: www.supercamps.co.uk Age: 4 – 16 years Open: Mon – Fri 10.00am – 3.00pm Open: Mon – Fri 10.00am – 3.00pm Open: Mon – Fri 8.00am – 6.00pm throughout summer Age: 4 –11 years Open: Mon – Fri 8.00am – 6.00pm. Open for all school holidays. Three weeks in August (dates to be confirmed) holiday. Cost: £24.00 per day, £15.00 per half day. Open: Mon – Fri 9.00am – 5.00pm throughout summer Multi-Activity Day Camps (age 4 – 14 years) Cost: £15 – £25 per day Open to all holiday. Cost: £6.00 for 9.00am – 3.00pm, £8.00 for 23rd July – 24th August Archery/swimming; For disabled children. Register before the holidays Dovecote Playscheme 9 9.00am – 4.00pm, £10.00 for 9.00am – 5.00pm 10th August Climbing Wall The Dovecote Centre, Nightingale Avenue, Oxford OX4 7BU Littlemore Early Intervention Hub Holiday Programme 16 A Passion for.... (age 6 – 16 years) 30th July – 3rd August Bartlemas Daycare Playscheme 2 T: 01865 712299/07974 234661 E: [email protected] Oxford Academy Campus, Sandy Lane West, Littlemore, Rose Hill Primary School Holiday Club 26 Stage; 23rd – 27th July & 13th – 17th August Food; 6th – 10th The Comper Building, Hertford Street, Oxford OX4 3AJ Age 4 – 12 years Oxford, OX4 6JY T: 0845 641 6424 E: [email protected] Rose Hill Primary School, The Oval, Oxford OX4 4SF August Dance; 13th – 17th August Create; 31st July – 2nd T: 01865 245768 E: [email protected] Open: Mon – Thurs 10.00am – 3.00pm The hub will be arranging a summer holiday programme, T: 01865 777937 E: [email protected] August & 21st – 23rd August Karate (age 8 – 14 years) Age: 3 – 8 years (For working parents/carers 9.30am – 3.30pm) contact for details. Age: 4 – 11 years Cost: Multi-Activity Day Camps £38.00 per day, £174.00 per week A Passion for.... Stage £164.00 per week, Food, Dance and Open: Mon – Fri 9.00am – 5.30pm. Sessions: 23rd July – 16th August (registration 6th July) Little Troopers Day Nursery 17 Open: Mon – Fri 10.00am – 3.00pm first four weeks of summer 9.00am – 1.00pm & 1.30pm – 5.30pm. 24th July – 24th First 2 weeks or second 2 weeks available per child holiday. Priority to children attending Rose Hill Primary School. Create £174.00 per week. Karate £105.00 per 3 day course 13 Stanley Road, Oxford OX4 1QY T: 01865 793322 August. Cost: £30.00 per day, £16.00 per session Cost: £40 per 2 weeks. £25 per day for working parents Cost: £20.00 per week (discount for siblings) E: [email protected] Age: 3 – 8 years The ABC Fun Weeks at Bayards Hill School 34 Blackbird Leys Adventure Playground (BLAP) 3 Biddy’s Dream - Dovecote Afloat Open: Mon – Fri 8.30am – 5.30pm throughout summer Small World Montessori Holiday Care 27 Bayards Hill School, Waynflete Road, Headington, Oxford Holiday Scheme This holiday provision runs alongside the current holiday. 8.30am – 12.30pm & 1.30pm – 5.30pm 89 Bagley Wood Road, Kennington, Oxford OX1 5NA OX3 9NU M: 07931 315450 Blackbird Leys Community Centre, Leys Linx, playscheme from a narrow boat and can be booked one Cost: £24.00 per morning, £20.00 per afternoon session, T: 01865 326660 E: [email protected] E: [email protected]: 8 – 19 years Blackbird Leys Road, Oxford OX4 6HW week at a time. £40.00 per day (discount for siblings) W: www.smallworldmontessori.co.uk Open: Mon – Fri 9.00am – 3.00pm, T: 075309 33690 E: [email protected] Age 8 – 14 years. Age: 5 – 11 years 23rd July – 17th August. Priority to Barton residents Mabel Prichard School Holiday Scheme 18 Age: 8 – 13 years Open: Mon – Fri 8.00am – 6.00pm. Cost: £21.00 per session, Nursery School and Children’s 10 Wesley Close, Oxford OX4 6BG T: 01865 777878 35 Open: Mon – Fri 10.00am – 1.00pm & 2.00pm – 5.00pm £38.60 per day. Contact the provider for details. The Primary School Holiday Centre Holiday Playscheme Age 3 – 14 years 30th July – 31st August Playscheme The Mulberry Room, 47 White House Road, Oxford OX1 4QH Open: Mon – Fri 10.00am – 2.00pm South Oxford Adventure Playground 28 Grange Road, Littlemore, Oxford, OX4 4LS Botley Primary School Holiday Scheme 4 T: 01865 242900 E: [email protected] Dates not yet decided - contact provider for details. (Open Access) (SOAP) T: 01865 772495 E: [email protected] Elms Road, Oxford OX2 9JZ W: www.grandpontnurseryschool.co.uk Age: 3 – 7 years End of White House Road, Behind Grandpont Nursery W: www.jhnewman.oxon.sch.uk Age: 5 – 11 years Mini-Media Children’s Creative Workshops 19 T: 01865 248573 E: [email protected] Open: Mon – Fri 8.00am – 5.30pm (part-time sessions School, Oxford OX1 4PA T: 01865 249787 Open: Mon – Fri 9.00am – 3.30pm. Weeks beginning 23rd NEEDS W: www.botley.oxon.sch.uk available) 23rd July – 17th August based at St.Michael’s School, Marston Road, Oxford OX3 4EJ E: [email protected] W: www.soapoxford.org.uk July, 30th July and 6th August. Cost: £5.00 per session Age: 3 – 11 years Cost: £40.38 per full day, 8.00am – 12 noon: £17.00, T: 07739329875 workshop organiser Emma Griffin Age: 7 years plus 36 Open: Mon – Fri 8.00am – 6.00pm 8.00am – 1.00pm: £21.25, 1.00pm – 5.30pm: £19.13, E: [email protected] W: www.mini-mediakids.com Open: Mon – Fri 10.00am – 5.00pm, from 24th July. The Oxford Nursery - Littlemore dates not confirmed. 5.30pm – 6.00pm: £2.13 Age: 8 – 11 years Cost: No cost, partially funded by City Council. Open access 2 Armstrong Road, Littlemore, Oxford OX4 4XT ROTATING T: 01865 777323 E: [email protected] 8.00am – 12.30pm & 12.30pm – 6.00pm ‘Art & Adventure Days’ Summer Workshops July & August. adventure playground with trained playworker, not a holiday Great Milton C of E School Holiday Club 11 Cost: £25.00 per day, £15.00 per half day Cost: £32 per day. Art & Bushcraft, Indoor and Outdoor scheme. Under 6s welcome with parents/carers W: www.oxfordnursery.co.uk Age: 5 – 11 years Great Milton C of E School, The Green, Great Milton, Creative skills based activities. Contact provider for details. Open: Mon – Fri 7.30am – 6.00pm. All year except bank Camp Energy @ Oxford 5 Oxford OX44 7NT T: 01844 279388 SS Philip and James School Holiday Scheme 29 holidays. Cost: £30.00 per day (discount for siblings) Northway Kids Club 20 Summer Fields School (behind Marks & Spencer’s) E: [email protected] St Philip & James C of E Primary School, Navigation Way, Mayfield Road, Oxford OX2 7EN T: 01869 352000 W: www.great-milton.oxon.sch.uk Tower Playbase, Maltfield Road, Headington, Oxford Oxford OX2 6AB T: 01865 311064 The Oxford Nursery - Sanders Road 37 E: [email protected] W: www.campenergy.co.uk Age: 3 – 11 years OX3 9RG T: 01865 742816 E: [email protected] E: [email protected] , Sanders Road, Oxford OX4 4GD W: www.primeenergy.org Age: 4 – 14 years Open: Mon – Fri 8.30am – 5.30pm. Cost: £20.00 “school Age: 5 – 12 years W: www.ss-philip-and-james.oxon.sch.uk T: 01865 396792 E: [email protected] Open: Mon – Fri day”, £25.00 per full day. Contact school for details. Open: Mon – Fri 8.30am – 10.00am, 10.00am – 3.00pm, Holiday scheme may run, but is only available to the school’s W: www.oxfordnursery.co.uk Age: 5 – 10 years 8.00am – 6.00pm, 16th – 31st August 3.00pm – 5.00pm throughout summer holiday. Fifteen pupils. Please contact school for availability. Open: Mon – Fri 8.00am – 6.00pm all year except bank holidays Guidepost Trust Holiday Playscheme 12 Half days & flexible bookings available spaces available for children with specific requirements. Cost: £32.00 per day (discount for siblings) John Watson School, Littleworth Road, Wheatley, Oxford Cost: £3.00 per morning, £4.00 per afternoon, £8.00 per day St Andrew’s Summer Playscheme 30 Cost: £33.00 per day, £149.00 per week (discounts for NHS The Oxford Nursery - Summertown 38 OX33 1NN T: 01865 452725 E: [email protected] St Andrew’s C of E School, London Road, Headington, employees & siblings). Check website for intensive sport Oxford Active (Cherwell Playscheme) 21 Marston Ferry Road, Oxford OX2 7EE Age: 3 - 19 years Oxford OX3 9ED T: 01865 742634 M: 07963 750635 courses. Active holiday courses. T: 01865 316602 E: [email protected] Open: Mon – Fri 9.00am – 4.00pm throughout summer The South Site, Marston Ferry Road, Oxford E: [email protected] OX2 7EE T: 01865 594325 E: [email protected] W: www.oxfordnursery.co.uk Cool Kids Holiday Playscheme 6 holiday. Cost: £28.50 per day Age: 4 – 11 years Contact school for details. W: www.oxfordactive.co.uk Age: 5 – 8 years c/o Wheatley Primary School, Littleworth Road, Wheatley, Foundation Stage School 13 Age: 4 – 12 years Stepping Stones Nursery 31 Open: Mon – Fri 7.30am – 6.00pm all year except bank holidays Oxford OX33 1NN T: 01865 876395 E: [email protected] Holiday Club Open: Mon – Fri 8.15am – 6.00pm, 23rd July – 31st August. 55 Glanville Road, Oxford OX4 2DD T: 01865 717139 Cost: £18.00 per session, £9.00 per hour (discount for siblings) Age: 3 – 12 years 4 Quarry School Place, Headington, Oxford OX3 8LH Cost: from £25.00 per day, £14.00 per half day. Discounts for E: [email protected] Open: Mon – Fri 8.30am – 5.30pm. Cost: £18.00 per day, West Oxford Community Primary School Summer 39 T: 01865 762345 siblings and full weeks available. Camps also running at Blenheim, W: www.steppingstonesoxon.co.uk £9.00 per half day. Contact club for further details. Play Scheme E: [email protected] Carterton and Chipping Norton. See website for more details. Age: 5 – 11 years W: www.sladeandheadingtonchildrenscentre.org.uk West Oxford Primary School, Ferry Hinksey Road, Oxford Create Holiday Club (Forest Farm) Holiday 7 Open: Mon – Fri 9.00am – 5.00pm throughout summer Age: 3 – 8 years Oxford Montessori Nursery Wolvercote 22 OX2 0BY T: 07940526295 E: [email protected] Playscheme (Oxford Montessori Schools) holiday. Sessions available. Open: Mon – Fri 8.30am – 5.30pm throughout summer Wolvercote Village Hall, Wolvercote Green, Oxford OX2 8BD Age 3 - 11 years Forest Farm, Elsfield, Oxford OX3 9UW T: 01865 358210 32 holiday. Cost: £4.70 per hour Oxford Montessori Nursery Super Camps @ Headington Girls School Open: Mon – Thurs 8.30am - 5.30pm, 23rd July – 26th July, E: [email protected] W: www.oxfordmontessori.co.uk 23 Iffley Village Hall, Church Way, Iffley, Oxford OX4 4EG Headington School, London Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7TD 30th July – 2nd August & 27th August - 30th August.Cost: Age: 2 –16 years KIDACTIVE at Oxsrad Sports Centre 14 T: 01865 358210 E: [email protected] T: 01235 832222 E: [email protected] £25.00 per day, £14.00 per half day (discount for siblings) Open: Mon – Fri 9.00am – 4.30pm, 23rd July – 4th September. Oxsrad Sports Centre, Marsh Lane, Court Place Farm, W: www.oxfordmontessori.co.uk W: www.supercamps.co.uk Age: 4 – 16 years A bus service is provided from the Oxford Montessoris at 40 Headington, Oxford OX3 0NQ A holiday scheme is available at the Forest Farm Site with Open: Mon – Fri 8.00am – 6.00pm Wood Farm Holiday Playscheme (Oxford Active) Wolvercote and Iffley to Forest Farm. Cost: £34.56 per session M: 07762 234169 E: [email protected] transport available. (See “Create Holiday Club”) Multi-Activity Day Camps (age 4 – 14 years) Bullingdon Centre, Peat Moors, Headington, OX3 7HS (discount for siblings) W: www.kidactiveclubs.co.uk 9th July – 24th August – Archery/Swimming/Trampolining. T: 01865 594325 E: [email protected] Age: 4 – 11 years Pirate Club at the Cooperative Nursery 24 13th July, 2nd – 3rd August – Climbing Wall. W: www.oxfordactive.co.uk

The Cooperative Nursery, Blackbird Leys, Way, A Passion for..... (age 6 – 16 years) Age: 8 – 14 years Open: Mon – Fri 8.15am – 6.15pm throughout summer Oxford OX4 6JP T: 01865 401205 holiday. Cost: £25.00 per day, £17.50 per half day, for 23rd – 27th July Stage; 16th – 20th July Food; Open: Mon – Fri 10.00am – 3.00pm. Venue to be confirmed. E: [email protected] “Early Bird” bookings. £30.00 per day, £20.00 per half 30th July – 3rd August Dance; 13th – 17th August Invention Cost: £10 per day. Free to pupils of Wood Farm Primary Summer Holiday W: www.imagine.coop Age: 5 – 8 years day for late bookings (NHS discounts available) Costs: Multi–Activity Day Camps: £38.00/day, £174.00/week School and Wood Farm residents. Open: Mon – Fri 8.00am – 6.00pm. All school holidays except In partnership with ABC Nursery, Oxford A Passion for.... Stage – £164.00/week, Food, Dance and scheme details W: www.abcnurseryoxford.co.uk bank holidays. Cost: £3.65 per hour (discount for siblings) Invention – £174.00/week