Lacey

London City Royals basketball team have a three week holiday club at Crystal Palace which caters for this age group. It?s not for the whole day (til 3pm I think) but our son will make own way there and back. https://londoncityroyals.com/2019/04/summer-camp-2019

There is also Bishop Thomas Grant which is co-ed and near Streatham

It does have a year 6 starting this year (when it opened it went up to year 2).

Deen city farm which is by Morden Hall does pony rides round a small area (?2 according to this link). It's a nice place (new play area for little ones) and walk to Morden Hall if you've not been. http://www.deencityfarm.co.uk/portfolio/things-to-do/

We searched for ages too. We found two sports based ones - Moving Matters at Elmgreen School in Tulse Hill and Dulwich Hamlet FC

There's a real disparity I think in the extent to which schools support working parents with wrap around care. Our closest school (in Lambeth) had no after school club on site and the breakfast club only starts at 8.30am (one of the reasons we didn't apply). At our boys' school, they are in breakfast club from 8am and ASC til 5.45pm and the school also runs a holiday club at Easter and in the Summer. The school's approach has been to expand the provision to meet growing demand in the years we have been at the school. Convex - if the school has a year long waiting list for ASC, could you (and other parents in the same boat) ask the school what plans they have to expand it to meet the demand that clearly exists (assuming there is the necessary space)?

We've lived in West Norwood for about 5 years and echo all of SLad's points. The transport links are actually v good as there are two stations bookending the High Street, giving access to Victoria, London Bridge and the Thameslink. On schools, I don't know about St Luke's, but Julians is very popular and well regarded - alongside the site on Wolfington Road mentioned above, it has a separate new build site on Leigham Court Road. Other schools that might be worth looking at, depending upon where your friends are looking to buy and the ages of their children, could be Hitherfield and Dunraven (Dunraven is now an all through school but the primary bit only goes up to about Year 2/3 at the moment).

My nearly 9 year old does badminton at Jags on a Tuesday evening (6pm). We've just started going but he seems to be enjoying it so far!

Lambeth did when we applied last year (ironically for a Southwark school...)

I've gone for sticker books in this situation before. The Usborne ones have been well received - easy to pack, lightweight and I'm sure they will do a London themed one.

The nail biting liquid didn't work for us either - our son simply became accustomed to it. We did contemplate buying a Thumbguard but it seemed a big outlay for something that might not work. He gave up naturally at around 5 without any huge stress as far as I can recall; he's now 8, and there are no obvious problems with his teeth as a result. Our 4 year old is a finger-sucker and that looks like it's going to be a lot harder to put an end to...

Brilliant! Well done to all the staff at Bessemer who do an amazing job. And well done to the children too; there are some really lovely comments about them in the report.

Dobble is a good game for a range of ages to play together (probably age 4 up).

I've just been away for 11 nights for work. We did FaceTime every day which made a huge difference. Tho I'm not sure the 3 year old really noticed I'd gone.

We've been a few times this year (got an annual membership on a deal so trying to get value for our money!) Our boys (7 and 3) love the Duplo splash and play area. Definitely need swim stuff for this. We tend to do it at the end of the day so not then carting around wet stuff. Agree to take food and snacks tho children do eat for free in some of the restaurants after 3pm (which means they are quite busy then). Also, check out the info re parent swap if you have a younger child who can't go on all the rides.