Our Clubs
Breakfast Club
Breakfast clubs are 6.30-8.30am weekdays.
Little Gem's provide a friendly, secure space for children to relax before starting their day at school, nursery or pre-school. Children will enjoy a calm space and a variety of healthy, nutritious breakfast’s available; seasonal fruit,
pastries, toast, cereals and 'around the world foods' offered daily.
We will be offering drop offs to:
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Dartford Primary Academy
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Fleetdown
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St Anselms
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The Brent
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Gateway
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Temple Hill Primary
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West Hill Primary
Childminding
Childminding from 6.30am-6.30pm, weekdays, 48 weeks a year.
At Little Gem’s we pride ourselves with the care that we offer.
Our home based childminding is a real home from home environment,
a space where children are nurtured and encouraged to naturally learn through play.
At our home based setting children flourish with carefully set up activities that
the children enjoy and develop important life skills without even realising!
No opportunities are missed to ensure that all children receive support love and care to
meet their individual needs. All meals are prepared on site by Joe who takes great pride
in providing the children with healthy nutritious Tongue tantalising tasting experiences. All dietary requirements are taken care of. We love that we keep all our siblings together whatever their age.
Pre-School
Children aged 3-5 years benefit from a rich environment to develop both individually
and collectively with experienced staff to support them every step of the way.
All children learn the skills they need to soar into the next part of their lives.
Our Pre-school offers the perfect bridge between Childminding and reception;
staying with the same carers they have had since they were a baby, mixing
with children of all ages means they are more than confident then to move
up to reception where we can they still care and collect them for you.
After School Club
After school club - 3-6.30pm, weekdays.
Here children have multiple activities set up ready to participate and many opportunities to learn and develop new skills from dance to yoga to gardening.
Little Gem's offer children lots of choice and a lot of our choices are based on what the children are learning in school this term…
So extending their learning as well as having fun!
Activities are part of a weekly schedule sourcing local expertise
we have created a real community hub collecting from Dartford primary Academy
and now branching out to lots more schools in Dartford. A Healthy meal and a later snack for those attending a full session is provided, meals are nutritious and offer children a variety of tasting experiences, we get children involved in making snacks and tea as often as we can and have a cooking club too that the children love.
Holiday Club
Holiday Clubs - Open:
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1 week in February
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2 weeks at Easter
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1 week in May
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First 5 weeks in the Summer Holiday
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2 weeks in October
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We are closed for the 2 weeks in December
Youth Club
Youth Club - coming soon!
Our next venture for 11-14 year olds.
Little Gem's are excited about plans to open our Youth Club...
I am always sad when children leave, and after hearing Gina's experiences from secondary
school, we soon realised we wanted to stay a part of your children's lives for longer if we can.
So we are taking the necessary steps required to set up and start a youth club for our
year 6 leavers and their friends to come back and see us if ever they need or want to.