School age children are typically high energy learners and high energy players. After a day in school, they need time to let off some steam. They need time to think and process their day, time to do that mental filing that needs to be done for all they learned and were exposed to throughout the day. Most importantly they need time to play. 

At VGDS we provide structured homework time, and time to play through an indoor and outdoor schedule which includes free play, organized play, and activities with choices. Field trips are a regular and enriching experience that the children look forward to and help to plan.

School-agers love using their imaginations, organizing and leading others, researching special interests, making collections, playing board games, doing puzzles, working on crafts, using physical skills, and listening to music. Our SACC program offers a place to relax, have fun, be creative, make decisions, practice and master skills, do things with other children, and do things alone.  

School-agers enjoy planning and building their own play scenes. We provide materials and opportunity for these creative play activities. Children of all ages cooperate in their play scene, and sometimes it can include the whole group. Some build and play scenarios can last from an afternoon to several weeks. The children have plenty of space and indoors and outdoors to spread out, stretch and grow, or to find that quiet corner when they run out of steam.