leave 8 year old at after school club ! too anxious

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dont know from where to start but I have to start work and leave my 8 year old at the club for just 1 hour but i am getting too anxious about it .AIBU

My 8yo specifically asked us if she can go to after school club. My DH doesn't work, so she doesn't need to, but she wanted to so much that we signed her up one day a week. She loves it. So will your DD.

My 5yo goes once a week and enjoys it. They sing dance and spend time with each other playing. Wants to go more but it's not required. Not as much a fan of breakfast club but needs must.

Works well in most schools...class teachers (I am one 👍) has a list of children going to After School Club on each day. At pick up time, those children wait until the ASC staff are on the playground and are then sent across. It's a straightforward hangover procedure OP (I've never lost a child yet 👍)

Your child will be fine...try not to let your anxieties transfer onto them if you can, so that they are looking forward to the new experience.

🤣 *handover!!! (I definitely don't teach with a hangover, I promise!! 🤦‍♀️😳🤦‍♀️)

We have a similar set up in our village, the nursery workers know exactly what goes on at the school and how to pick up as they've been doing it for years! She will be fine.

Mine went to an outside provider from Reception age and were collected from school. I am a primary teacher and we have several children that also go to an outside provider. We have photos of the staff so we can identify them but it tends to be the same ones each time so we recognise them easily.

At 8 she is old enough to walk back her classroom or the school reception and let someone know if some reason she doesn’t get picked up.

If its not attached to the school, make sure you tell the school who is picking her up and when. At least then the school can make sure she goes with the right person too.

I used to use a childminder for after school and told the school who was picking them up. The CM was well known to the school and I would imagine so are the after school collection staff.

Ours is on the school grounds but not run by the school.

Teachers have a list of who is picked up at school finish time and a list of who goes to after school club. All the children that are going to after school club get taken to the school hall and collected by the ASC staff and walked across the car park to their building.

The procedures are strict. If we want to collect direct from school we have to ring the school before 12 (where possible) and let them know so they don’t send them down to the hall.

It really is a well oiled machine. It can’t really go wrong at that age because they can’t be left to walk home alone anyway.

Personally I think anxiety about one hour of ASC at 8 is a bit OTT

Teacher here. Tell your child’s teacher that they are being collected by after school club at the end of the day. Teacher should ensure an 8 year old child is handed to correct adult. My experience is that the same adult will be collecting a handful of children and the teacher will likely know who that adult is. An 8 year old is more than capable of coping with this scenario.

Op you do realise that millions of children are in childcare from far younger than 8 and it is completely normal.

Mine went to offsite after school club from reception to mid year 2. There was an issue one day where they were late picking him up. He stayed at school until they got there. The same as would have happened if I was late picking him up.
They’re not going to abandon a child in the playground

Thanks 😊 my child just went to after school club .I did a trail this week and he was super happy