For many of the children at St Peter's out-of-school club, the highlight of the afternoon is tucking into hot toast and jam and then curling up on big pillows and having a snooze. This is not because the club's dull, but because weekdays are long for them, with some attending the breakfast club in the morning from 7.45am to 8.55am, followed by school and then the out-of-school club from 3.30pm to 6pm.
"Some of the four- and five-year-olds are really tired when they come to the club at the end of the day, so it's nice for them to have a little sleep," explains Linda Morgan, senior play leader at the Cardiff club, which caters for the local primary schoolchildren.
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