Meet the team
At Child’s Play at Penclawdd, we are blessed with the most amazing team who generally love and care for all the children who join us. The majority of our staff are qualified up to the mandatory level 3 in Childcare.
We believe that it is essential for staff to continue with their professional development as this ensures your children get the best care possible. Aside from this, our team are happy, enthusiastic, caring, kind, bubbly, a little crazy (in a good way), and absolutely committed to ensuring your child gets the best care possible.
Sam
Sam is the founder of Child’s Play and a mum to three children. She has worked extensively with children from newborn up until 12 years of age.
She has an NVQ Level 3 in childcare and development and has been an invaluable classroom assistant, special educational needs support practitioner, children’s transition officer and early years’ development play worker during her career in childcare and education. This experience will help to shape the setting and create a wonderful environment that children love to spend time in.
Sinead
Sinead is our Setting Manager, she has been working in Childcare for over 9 years and has Level 6 Degree in Early Childhood. Sinead has previously worked at our St David’s setting and is happy to now be working at Penclawdd where she grew up and lives.
Helen
Helen is one of our Playworkers. She have been working for Child’s Play for almost 4 years. She is a mum to two children. Her son Will runs Will’s Farm in Three Crosses. Her background is in Health and Social Care and she achieved her CCPLD3 in Childcare as well as a playworks qualification. Helen has built a great relationship with our families since being in our Penclawdd setting.
Services provided
Afternoon playschool including Sociable lunch | 11:20am-3:10pm
Your little one can join us for a sociable lunch session before their afternoon playschool session begins. We like our lunchtime to be a social experience for your little ones, and we assist the children in laying out their lunch boxes on tables in social groupings.
We ask you to send your child in with a healthy, balanced lunch box. We will always put any uneaten food back into lunch boxes so you can monitor what is and isn’t popular.
Please remember that Child’s Play is a nut free zone.
We invite little ones from 2-4 years to enter our world of imagination and creativity in afternoon playschool. We create wonderful learning opportunities using our lovely, well-resourced base room and our outside areas.
Flying Start Session 12:30pm-3pm
We are delighted to offer 2.5 hours of funded childcare to children age 2 in any Swansea postcode.
For further information see www.swansea.gov.uk/flyingstartchildcareeligibility or call Swansea family information services on 01792 517222.
After school activity club | 3:10pm – 4:30pm
We have a range of exciting activity clubs running across the week including:
Monday – Cooking Club
Tuesday – Art Attack
Wednesday – Games Night
Thursday – Explorers & Investigators200
Friday – Film Friday