PART 2

Good afternoon. My name's Mrs Carter and I run the before and after school extended hours childcare service.

下午好。我是卡特夫人，我负责上学前和放学后的延时托育服务。

I hope you've had a chance to have a good look around the school and talk to staff and pupils.

我希望大家有机会能好好参观学校，并与教职员工和学生聊一聊。

I know that many of you are interested in using our childcare service when your child joins the school, and perhaps you already know something about it, but for those that don't, I'll go through the main details now.

我知道，当您的孩子入学时，你们很多人都对我们的托育服务感兴趣。也许您已经对我们有一些了解。但对于那些不了解的人，我现在将介绍一下主要的细节。

We offer childcare for children from the ages of four to eleven both before and after school.

我们为4岁至11岁的儿童提供上学前和放学后的托育服务。

I know that many parents who work find this service invaluable.

我知道很多工作的父母觉得这项服务非常宝贵。

You can leave your child with us safe in the knowledge that they will be extremely well cared for.

您可以把孩子安全地交给我们，因为他们会得到非常好的照顾。

We are insured to provide care for up to 70 children, although we rarely have this many attending at any one session.

我们确保能够为多达70名儿童提供服务，虽然每次参与的人数几乎都达不到这么多。

I think we generally expect around 50–60 children for the afternoon sessions and about half that number for the breakfast sessions.

我认为，下午通常预计会有50-60个孩子，早餐人数大约是下午人数的一半。

Although we currently do have 70 children registered with us, not all of these attend every day.

虽然目前已有70名儿童在我们这里注册，但这些儿童并非每天都在。

It's ten years since we began offering an extended hours service and we've come a long way during that time.

从我们开始提供延时服务到现在已经十年了，在这段时间里我们已经走了很长的路。

When we first opened, we only had about 20 children attending regularly.

我们刚开业时，只有大约20个孩子定期参加。

We try to keep our costs as low as we can and we think we provide very good value for money.

我们尽可能地降低花费，我们认为我们提供了非常物有所值的服务。

For the afternoon sessions, which run from 3.30 until 6 p.m., it's £7.20.

下午三点半到下午六点的课程费用为7.20英镑。

But if you prefer, you can pay for one hour only, which costs £3.50, or two hours which costs £5.70.

但如果您愿意，你可以只付一小时的费用，为3.50英镑，或者两小时，费用为5.70英镑。

The cost of the childcare includes food and snacks.

托育费用包括食物和零食。

They'll be given breakfast in the morning and in the afternoon, a healthy snack as soon as they finish school.

早上会发放早餐，下午一放学就吃健康零食。

At 5 p.m. children are given something more substantial, such as pasta or a casserole.

下午5点，孩子们会得到一些更丰盛的食物，比如意大利面或砂锅菜。

Please inform us of any allergies that your child might have and we'll make sure they're offered a suitable alternative.

请告知我们您的孩子可能有的任何过敏症，我们将确保为他们提供合适的替代食品。

As you may know, the childcare service runs through the school holidays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

如您所知，在学校放假期间也有托育服务，从早上8点到下午6点。

We offer a really varied and exciting programme to keep the children entertained – we don't want them to feel as if they are still at school!

我们提供了各种各样令人激动的节目来让孩子们开心。我们不想让他们觉得自己还在上学！

It will also feel different because they'll get the chance to make new friends with children from other schools – spaces are available for them because a lot of our term-time children don't always attend during the holiday.

孩子们会觉得这里和学校不一样，因为他们将有机会与其他学校的孩子成为新朋友。因为许多在开学期间参与延时服务的学生假期的时候不常来，所以为其它学校的孩子提供了空位。

In the past, parents have asked if children over the age of 11 are allowed to come with their younger brothers and sisters – but I'm afraid we're unable to do this because of the type of insurance we have.

在过去，家长们曾问，11岁以上的孩子是否可以和他们的弟弟妹妹一起来。但由于我们的保险类型，恐怕我们无法为他们提供服务。

So now let me tell you about some of the activities that your child can do during the afterschool sessions.

现在让我给您介绍一些孩子在课后可以做的活动。

As well as being able to use the playground equipment, computers and the library, there is usually at least one 'special' activity that children can do each day.

除了使用游乐场设备、电脑和图书馆，孩子们每天通常至少可以做一项“特殊”活动。

For example, Spanish.

比如西班牙语。

We have a specialist teacher coming in every Thursday to give a basic introduction to the language through games and songs.

我们每周四都会有一位专家老师来，通过游戏和歌曲对语言进行简单介绍。

She does two sessions: one for the over 8s and one for the younger children.

她有两个课程：一个是针对8岁以上的孩子，另一个是针对年幼的孩子。

This is the only activity which we have to make an extra charge for – but it's well worth it.

这是我们唯一需要额外收费的活动，但它非常值得。

Once a week the children have the opportunity to do some music.

孩子们每周有一次机会感受音乐。

We're very lucky that one of our staff is a member of a folk band.

我们很幸运，我们的一名员工是一个民间乐队的成员。

On Mondays, she teaches singing and percussion to groups of children.

周一，她会教孩子们唱歌和打击乐。

We do rely on parental support for this, so if any of you sing or play an instrument and would be prepared to help out at these sessions, we'd be delighted.

我们确实需要家长的支持，所以如果你们当中有人会唱歌或演奏乐器，并准备在这些活动上提供帮助，我们将非常高兴。

Painting continues to be one of the most popular activities.

绘画仍然是最受欢迎的活动之一。

To begin with we weren't keen on offering this because of the extra mess involved, but children kept asking if they could do some art and so we finally gave in.

一开始，我们并不想要于组织这个活动，因为这会弄得一团糟。但孩子们一直在问他们是否可以做一些美术相关的事情，所以我们最终让步了。

Art is great for helping the children to relax after working hard at school all day.

艺术是帮助孩子们在全天努力学习后放松身心的好方法。

Yoga is something that we've been meaning to introduce for some time but haven't been able to find anyone available to teach it – until now that is.

瑜伽是我们一直想引入的内容，但一直找不到合适的教师，直到现在才找到。

So we'll see how this goes.

接下来我们会看看如何进行这项活动。

Hopefully, children will benefit in all sorts of ways from this.

希望孩子们能从中受益。

Cooking is another popular activity.

烹饪是另一项受欢迎的活动。

They make a different sort of cake, or pizza or bread each week.

他们每周制作不同种类的蛋糕、披萨或面包。

Although the younger children love doing it, we found that the mess was just too much, so we've decided to restrict this to the over 8s, as they are better able to clean up after themselves.

虽然年幼的孩子们喜欢这样做，但我们发现这太乱了，所以我们决定将年龄限制在8岁以上，因为他们能更好地打理他们弄脏的地方。