Amazing Me was a week long biology themed holiday club for primary aged children held at St Mary’s Church, Eaton Socon
The date for next year’s holiday club will be available soon.
General holiday club information –
- Booking is first come first serve and the last couple of years we have been full and had a waiting list so book early to guarantee your child’s place.
- If you haven’t been to holiday club before, this vimeo should give you an idea of what went on in 2023: https://vimeo.com/852117503
- Children will be split into age appropriate groups with 2+ adults per group of 12 children with the youngest children having junior helpers in their group as well. Over the course of the morning they rotate in their groups between doing crafts, games, themed activities, thinking time in their small groups and refreshments. They will begin and end their morning in an altogether time with all the groups where we have singing, videos, tell jokes, stories and sometimes get a bit messy!
SEN provision: St Mary’s aims to be an all inclusive holiday club, therefore we do our absolute best to work with you to enable your child to attend. We have a sensory chill out area, use visual timetables, choosing boards, have team members who are familiar with Makaton and using PECS and welcome families to come and have a look round the space beforehand to help their child settle on day 1.
If your child has a special educational need or disability which may require 1-1 support please get in touch BEFORE booking. This is a change to previous years due to the amount of adults we have available for 1-1s and the amount of potential children requiring them. Unfortunately a 1-1 is not guaranteed and will be provided on a needs basis. Please do get in touch to discuss this as there are various options we can use for children who need additional adult support.
We also welcome children attending with a PA if the child would get on better with a familiar adult (this adult would need a DBS to be on site).
Funded Places: We have a limited amount of funded places or reduced fees places available for families whose children would not be able to attend otherwise due to cost. Please get in touch BEFORE booking if you feel this applies to you. If you are in a position to be able to “donate a day” to enable another child to attend, please click on this link to do so: Pay it forward for Amazing Me (28-Jul-2025) · ChurchSuite Events
Any questions, please email Liz on cfcw@eatonsocon.org
At the bottom of the page is a gallery with some photos from our 2024 holiday club (Secret Agents)
Below are some quotes from parents which reflect what they thought of holiday club.
“Thank you to a very successful holiday club! For the first time [child] was excited to be going each morning, no usual anxiety with change of routine for her! I cannot thank you enough for the well thought out time she had this week.”
“[Child] has just loved her time with you all! Thank you so much for everything! We look forward to Sunday!”
“[Child who required a 1-1 at holiday club], and so many of the children with additional needs who attend, simply would not get to experience a holiday club if it wasn’t for this. The benefits are almost immeasurable – the confidence it gives [child], the skills she learns and the opportunity for independence…..I have never seen inclusion – true inclusion – anywhere like we see at St Marys. It tells [child], her sister and our family that we DO belong. And it also shows everyone else that everyone is of value and everyone SHOULD be welcome.”
Our detective agency
Our investigation board – we added to this every day with the children’s drawings, riddles and jokes
Twice a day we gather together for songs, stories and lots of upfront fun
Making friends is one of the best things about holiday club
Lots of different codes to solve!
There were lots of codes around the room to solve. These gave the children further information and sometimes extra groups points!
Children are split into age appropriate small groups
Game time!
Challenge during altogether time
We had to disguises ourselves as part of our secret agent challenges
Craft time – making secret spy glasses
Craft making – making bags to keep our secret agent kit in (and to take everything home from holiday club in)