Which TWO facts are given about the school’s extended hours childcare service: (actual test)

Part two. You will hear the manager of a

child care service at a primary school

talking to parents at an open day about

the school's child care service offered

before and after school. First, you have

some time to look at questions 11 to 15.

Now listen carefully and answer

questions 11 to

15. Good afternoon. My name's Mrs.

Carter and I run the before and after

school extended hours child care

service. I hope you've had a chance to

have a good look around the school and

talk to staff and pupils. I know that

many of you are interested in using our

child care service when your child joins

the school and perhaps you already know

something about it, but for those that

don't, I'll go through the main details

now. We offer child care for children

from the ages of 4 to 11, both before

and after school. I know that many

parents who work find this service

invaluable. You can leave your child

with us safe in the knowledge that they

will be extremely well cared for. We are

insured to provide care for up to 70

children. Although we rarely have this

many attending at any one

session, I think we generally expect

around 50 to 60 children for the

afternoon sessions and about half that

number for the breakfast

sessions. Although we currently do have

70 children registered with us, not all

of these attend every day. It's 10 years

since we began offering an extended

hours service and we've come a long way

during that time.

When we first opened, we only had about

20 children attending

regularly. We try to keep our costs as

low as we can, and we think we provide

very good value for money. For the

afternoon sessions, which run from 3:30

until 6:00 p.m., it's

£720. But if you prefer, you can pay for

1 hour only, which costs

£350, or 2 hours, which costs £5.70.

The cost of the child care includes food

and snacks. They'll be given breakfast

in the morning and in the afternoon a

healthy snack as soon as they finish

school. At 5:00 p.m., children are given

something more substantial such as pasta

or a casserole. Please inform us of any

allergies that your child might have and

we'll make sure they're offered a

suitable alternative.

As you may know, the child care service

runs through the school holidays from

8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. We offer a really

varied and exciting program to keep the

children entertained. We don't want them

to feel as if they are still at school.

It will also feel different because

they'll get the chance to make new

friends with children from other

schools. Spaces are available for them

because a lot of our termtime children

don't always attend during the holiday.

In the past, parents have asked if

children over the age of 11 are allowed

to come with their younger brothers and

sisters, but I'm afraid we're unable to

do this because of the type of insurance

we have.

Before you hear the rest of the talk,

you have some time to look at questions

16 to 20.

Now listen and answer questions 16 to

20.

So now let me tell you about some of the

activities that your child can do during

the after school

sessions. As well as being able to use

the playground equipment, computers, and

the library, there is usually at least

one special activity that children can

do each day. For example, Spanish. We

have a specialist teacher coming in

every Thursday to give a basic

introduction to the language through

games and songs.

She does two sessions, one for the over

eights and one for the younger

children. This is the only activity

which we have to make an extra charge

for, but it's well worth it. Once a

week, the children have the opportunity

to do some music. We're very lucky that

one of our staff is a member of a folk

band. On Mondays, she teaches singing

and percussion to groups of children. We

do rely on parental support for this.

So, if any of you sing or play an

instrument and would be prepared to help

out at these sessions, we'd be

delighted. Painting continues to be one

of the most popular activities. To begin

with, we weren't keen on offering this

because of the extra mess involved, but

children kept asking if they could do

some art, and so we finally gave in. Art

is great for helping the children to

relax after working hard at school all

day. Yoga is something that we've been

meaning to introduce for some time, but

haven't been able to find anyone

available to teach it until now that is.

So, we'll see how this goes. Hopefully,

children will benefit in all sorts of

ways from

this. Cooking is another popular

activity. They make a different sort of

cake or pizza or bread each week.

Although the younger children love doing

it, we found that the mess was just too

much. So, we've decided to restrict this

to the overates as they are better able

to clean up after

themselves. That is the end of part two.