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Year Round Care Service
At the Edinburgh Academy Junior School you can, if you choose, have your child looked after from 8am till 6pm every day throughout the year with only a few exceptions.
During term time we offer an Early Bird service form 8am and, after class/nursery, we offer a mixture of after school activities and after school club till 6pm.
To the children we offer a safe, structured and caring environment where the emphasis is on helping each other to enjoy the time spent at Mackenzie House. To the parents we offer peace of mind to go about your business, knowing we take our "in loco parentis" responsibilities very seriously. On a typical afternoon the after-school care staff collect the boys at the end of their school day. The short walk from the Junior School building to Mackenzie House (or indeed the short drive from Henderson Row for the Senior boys) allows them to leave their workday behind and get on with the serious business of having fun. Once they have demolished a mountain of toast, a heap of jam sandwiches and a gallon of milk, they are refuelled and raring to go.
Holiday Club
Holiday Club covers all bar a few days of the school holidays.Booking forms are sent home with the children at the relevant times. Please contact Shelagh Sharp on 624 4908 or for further information.
Year Planner
A year planner has been produced to help parents plan what leave they need to take to cover the small number of gaps in our service. The year planner may be downloaded in Word format.
Booking:
By form sent home with your child at the relevant time during the term.
By phone to Mackenzie House (552 4197) or the School Office (552 3690 Junior) (556 4603 Senior).
By email to
What are our facilities?
At The Edinburgh Academy we are very lucky to have Mackenzie House in Kinnear Road as the location for our After School and Holiday Club. Formerly used for boarding, it is a self-contained and spacious house perfectly suited to providing a secure and comfortable environment where children can relax after a hard day's work in the classroom or Nursery. As a Holiday Club it has everything under one roof.
EARLY BIRDS from 8 a.m.
There will be supervised indoor or outdoor play depending on the weather till 8.30 when they can go to their classroom. The service is also available to nursery children who will be looked after until 8.45am then taken to Nursery. There is charge of £20 per term for P1-6 and £30 per term for Nursery. |
AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES from 3.20 p.m.
The activities run every school day from 3.30 –4.30pm. There is a mix of free and paid activities each day. |
Mackenzie House for the 3-6 year olds
The “art” area with paper, paints, glue and all the messy stuff is always popular, and there is a quiet area with chairs and beanbags where a child can flop with a book if that's what he wants. There is also a small room where the P2 boys can escape to play mini snooker, Lego or just sit back with the “Beano” or “Dandy” for some quiet reading when they have had enough of the “wee ones”! |
Mackenzie House for slightly older boys
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Mackenzie House Quiet RoomNext door is the inappropriately named "Quiet Room ", host to many a cry of " Who stole my treasure?" from the boys playing with the Playmobile pirate ships to " I think it was Mrs. Bashford in the dining hall with the lead pipe" from the boys playing Cluedo. In one corner of this room there is a largely ignored TV and video, which we use once a month for “Cinema Friday”. Close the curtains, bring out the popcorn and settle down to watch a good Disney classic. |
Mackenzie House Homework Room
This can be very important sometimes! |
Henderson Row Pupils
It is great to have the contact after they have moved on from the Junior School and to see them mature into decent young men. |
GardensOutside we have the use of not one but two gardens. One is the Mackenzie House garden where the goalposts reign supreme. The other is accessed by a gate to the adjoining Scott House where we use their nursery garden for our little ones to play safely without getting caught up in a penalty shoot out --- or is it golden goal? The boys know what they are doing! On certain days we can go out our back gate to run around in the Playing Fields, which is great for us, but I'm sure it is a headache for the groundsman who carefully tends the hallowed cricket square. |
Those of you who like to start the day early can leave your child at the Junior School from 8am. .jpg)
When classes end at 3.20pm, that is by no means the end of the day at the Junior School. Some would say life begins at 3.30pm when a host of 
For the 3-6 year olds, there is a very large room on the ground floor, cosily laid out with many exciting things: train tracks, castles, house corner, cars with roads and garages and lots of jigsaws games and puzzles. 
Upstairs is where the even bigger boys (7 – 10 years old from the Junior School and 10 – 14 year olds from the Senior School) hang out. There are four rooms for them to use. The larger is a games room with a snooker table, a table tennis table, a football table and mini basketball. Off this room is a small area with two Playstation consoles. The boys are limited to 15 minutes on a Playstation, which they do accept calmly. (Do NOT try this at home unless you want to start a mutiny!) Actually, 15 minutes of interactive games on an “Eye Toy”, where you have to do the motions not use a handset, is usually enough to wear out even the most active boy! We have an art area on this floor too and the boys have made some wonderful things from papier-mâché models of the Alps to face masks and heavily glittered Christmas cards. We are always on the look out for cereal boxes and sticky-backed plastic! 
The fourth room is set out as a quiet area where the boys can do homework if either they (or their parents) wish.
Another room is reserved for the senior schoolboys from Henderson Row. They have their own lounge, which is equipped with a snooker table, computer, XBox with games, various board games and arty stuff if wanted. (See the arrangements in the right hand panel.) This page is: Edinburgh Academy / juniorschool / afterschool /index.htm
