Before & after school care
You’ll find sKids at over 170+ schools across New Zealand. Before and after school each term, you can be sure they’re safe and secure, enjoying activities like arts and crafts, music and drama, sports and games, and teamwork challenges!
Creating the best start to the school day
Our before school care programme is now called ‘Rise Then Shine’, the perfect start to your child’s school day! We set the tone for a great day at school through an array of energising activities and some delicious and nutritious food.
Where friendships are made!
The fun continues after school at our ‘Stay and Play’ afternoon programmes. Kids can dive into more fun activities, building lasting friendships and creating memories beyond the classroom, all before heading home for quality family time.
Creating the best start to the school day
Our before school care programme ‘Rise Then Shine’, is the perfect start to your child’s school day! We set the tone for a great day at school through an array of energising activities and some delicious and nutritious food.
Where friendships are made!
The fun continues after school at our ‘Stay and Play’ afternoon programmes. Kids can dive into more fun activities, building lasting friendships and creating memories beyond the classroom, all before heading home for quality family time.
Flavour Fest
Explore the tasty world of food and nutrition through fun and interactive experiences created to develop healthy habits. Flavour Fest gives tamariki the chance to prepare a wide variety of tasty treats, meals and even design a menu!
Wellbeing Warriors
Discover a range of activities specially designed to help you feel good by boosting happiness, mindfulness, and wellbeing. Wellbeing Warriors focuses on mindfulness through activities that promote kindness, gratitude, happiness, and even random acts of kindness.
Super Sports
Super fun and sporty sessions designed to develop essential skills for a lifetime of active living. Super Sports brings out the inner athlete in tamariki by encouraging them to try a range of sports and physical activities.
Global Kids
Embark on a journey to become a better global citizen and protect our planet through developing essential life skills and exploring the world around us. Whether it’s learning about international foods, what people wear or amazing historical stories from faraway lands, Global Kids opens our minds to the amazing world around us!
Power Teams
Join in fun games, thrilling challenges, and exciting group activities to build team skills for life. Power Teams builds resilience, communication and problem-solving through team games, sports and activities in a fun, challenging environment where they can test a range of skills.
Creative Inventors
Let your imagination soar as we engage in creative activities that combine expressive arts, materials and crafts to fuel your inner inventor and unlock your hidden talents! Whether it’s a cool art piece, crazy costume, or a masterpiece for the living room wall – Creative Inventors is a kid’s guide to honing their craft and making it happen!
Brain Boosters
Crack codes, solve puzzles and engage in captivating games and science experiments. Explore the wonders of the world with hands-on STEM activities. Brain Boosters will help tamariki explore big ideas through fun games and experimentation.
Flavour Fest
Explore the tasty world of food and nutrition through fun and interactive experiences created to develop healthy habits.
Wellbeing Warriors
Discover a range of activities specially designed to help you feel good by boosting happiness, mindfulness, and wellbeing.
Super Sports
Super fun and sporty sessions designed to develop essential skills for a lifetime of active living.
Global Kids
Embark on a journey to become a better global citizen and protect our planet through developing essential life skills and exploring the world around us.
Power Teams
Join in fun games, thrilling challenges, and exciting group activities to build team skills for life.
Creative Inventors
Let your imagination soar as we engage in creative activities that combine expressive arts, materials and crafts to fuel your inner inventor and unlock your hidden talents!
Brain Boosters
Let your imagination soar as we engage in creative activities that combine expressive arts, materials and crafts to fuel your inner inventor and unlock your hidden talents!
What a term of after school care looks like
We want all kids to feel AWESOME about who they are, so our programmes have been designed to grow core capabilities in kids, so they flourish in life. Each activity in the week approaches one of the five selves of development which includes emotional, social, cognitive, creative & physical development. Our passionate teams plan activities for each school week and cater activities and afternoon tea for the kids in their sKids community.
What does a typical day look like?
Before School
Creating the best start to the school day
7:30am onwards children arrive (signed in by parents)
Breakfast of fruit, cereals and toast is available for anyone who hasn’t eaten at home
8am – 8.30am Games & organised activity
There’s time for some fun and a quiet area too, for kids who need to complete homework
8.30am Tidy up and children signed out for classes
After School
Where friendships are made!
3:00 – 3.30pm Roll call and Afternoon Tea
3:30 – 4.30pm Supervised activities
Homework, outside play as much as possible and group games
4.30 – 5.15pm Planned Activity Time
Emotional / social / cognitive / creative / physical development activities
5:15 – 6:00pm Clean up time and free play
Frequently asked questions
Our programme teams will send someone out to pick up new children from their classrooms until they are confident to do it on their own. We recommend you text our onsite teams to let them know your child is new and what their room number is before their first day.
Each programme is qualified to receive an OSCAR Subsidy. Qualifying families can apply through Work and Income New Zealand. To find out more on the OSCAR Subsidy and to check if you might qualify, visit our OSCAR Subsidy page.
Our teams are trained in behaviour guidance training to ensure they are well equipped to help a child in this situation. We have Supporting Positive Behaviour Plans in place, which will involve the child, parent/caregiver, and sKids Programme Manager. This requires a team effort by everyone involved to ensure the child is prepared for the development and improvement in behaviour.
If your child requires medication or has allergies our teams should be aware of, please ensure you add all the necessary details on the safety form when you make a booking. Any medication you give permission for our teams to administer or your child to self-administer will be logged and tracked for you.
After a 5 minute grace period, we charge $1 per minute for late pick ups.
Short sessions will be automatically charged at the longer session if the time exceeds 15 minutes.
- We will never leave a child alone and unattended. If your child is not picked up within 15 minutes of the programme closing, we will call parents/caregivers and emergency contacts. If we cannot reach any contacts within an hour of the programme closing, the Programme Manager/Franchise Owner will call the police and Oranga Tamariki for advice.
During the school term, we have different requirements depending on the school. Some sites may offer pickups/drop-offs for nearby schools. Please contact your local sKids team to find out more.
