Sarah Hammond is after-school club manager with Acorn Childcare, based at Meadowside Primary School in Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire. She helped set the club up nine years ago and helps manage another after-school club in Corby. Sarah is also a higher level teaching assistant and pastoral assistant at Meadowside Primary School.
She says, 'We usually have about 20 children and about three staff. My day starts at 7.30am and we open the doors to parents and children at 7.45am. The children come in and help themselves to breakfast.
'When we are ready to go, we sit on the carpet and have discussions or games. At 8.45am we all go to school. If there are any issues when I drop the children to their classes, the teachers and I will speak then.
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