One o'clock club

[katgod]

This is just a heads up again about the thread on the main bit of the forum about changes to the one o'clock club in Peckham Rye. Think it more likely that the people here would be interested than the main thread where there is moaning about spending the money! The plans seems to be to move the club away from the car park and cafe and up to where the adventure playground is. Renata is working on getting the plans online, but do look at the other thread for details.

[Saffron]

Thanks katgod. And here's the link if anyone is interested: http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1302472

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[Renata Hamvas]

Hi all, as some of you may go straight to the family room, I'm duplicating my post from the main forum page, in case some of you here are interested to read about what is the situation with the Small Acres School and the Adventure Playground. Also to add, that Play Services are thinking to make a part of the adventure playground area more interesting to older children with high wires, walkways etc. Anyone's thoughts on this?

Renata

The Small Acres school, is a small group of home schooling parents who pay rent for use of the Adventure Playground area for group homeschooling. They rent this during the daytime, during school terms when other children are at their own schools and therefore don't use this room to play table tennis etc (the facility wouldn't be open for public use then). This is similar to eg private Nurseries who may rent a TRA or Church Hall during the week. The currently rent the space for two or three sessions a week, their bookings are done on a short-term, termly basis. Anyone can book this space. Local primary schools do book it for outdoor activities too. It can be booked by community groups or individuals(eg for birthday parties). Either speak to Terry Jones, the playworker on site after school/Saturday or email Garry Martin in Southwark Play Services [email protected]. Currently, Monday and Friday during school hours and Sunday afternoon are available, also Saturdays during school holidays. The rent from the Small Acres Group and anyone who hires the facility goes directly back into the Adventure Playground Kitty, to enable all our children to use the facilities for free, after school, on Saturdays and during school holidays. The homeschoolers can use Peckham Rye Park just as any other user. Any local child can go into the park and measure trees etc! I hope this clarifies the situation.

Renata

[Jacbuc]

for additional information go to the other thread but I think it is likely that little acres is a small fee paying independent school rather than informal home educaters. Is Southwark aware of this?