Stay And Play After School Club

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

This provision meets requirements Staff support children's personal, social, and emotional development well. They encourage children to share resources and take turns, for example, when they play games and colour pictures. Older children are encouraged to help and play with younger children.

This helps them to feel confident, included and part of a team. Children's behaviour is good. They are happy and relaxed at the club.

Children clearly enjoy their time at the club, which complements their day at school well. Children take part in activities such as playing pool and designing buildings using bricks. Younger children particularly like the opportunity to ...take part in craft activities.

Staff interact well with children as they play together, decorating crowns and making objects using dough.Staff know the children well. They are mindful that some children, especially the youngest, may need extra support or reassurance.

Children are confident and happy to ask staff for help when they need it. They are growing in independence. For example, children put away their coats when they arrive and clear away their own dishes after snack time.

Staff encourage children to make simple choices and decisions. This motivates children to be respectful to others.

What does the early years setting do well and what does it need to do better?

Staff are well deployed and supervise children's activities successfully.

Children know to register on the peg board before moving between the indoor and outdoor areas. Staff ensure children's safety is given high priority. For example, they use walkie-talkies and communicate with each other when children are moving between the indoors and outdoors of the club.

This ensures children are supervised during their time at the club.Staff work well together and the actions set at the last inspection have been met. The new management team provide support to staff through supervision meetings, appraisals and personal development plans.

They evaluate staff's training needs and support them to keep their knowledge and skills up to date. Managers implement robust recruitment and induction procedures to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children.Children are enthusiastic and talk with confidence to visitors to the club.

For example, they show them the animals they are helping at the animal hospital. Children explain the different illnesses that the animals have. Children display enjoyment and motivation for the different activities on offer.

Staff seek the views of the children and encourage them to play a part in the planning of activities at the club. For example, children enjoy baking and making pizza for snack. Children know which resources are on offer and make choices about what they want to play with.

However, the provision of resources could be enhanced to provider further enjoyable activities in the outdoor area. Children enjoy learning about different cultures. Staff plan activities to celebrate specific festivals, such as Chinese New Year, Easter and Ramadan.

This helps children to develop an understanding of the world around them.Parents speak highly of the club and staff. They express how happy they are with the care their children receive.

Parents comment that they have had several of their children attend the club over the years. They particularly like it when children are taken to the local park. Staff gather a range of information from parents before children start at the club.

This information helps them get to know the children before they start. It also helps to identify important information about the children and understand if they may need additional support.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

Staff have taken part in safeguarding training. They understand their role and responsibility in protecting children from the risk of harm. Staff are familiar with the signs and symptoms that may indicate that a child's welfare is at risk.

They are confident about who to report concerns to, including concerns about their colleagues. Staff conduct daily risk assessments to ensure that the premises are safe and secure for children. They have regular discussions with children about road safety, so that children know how to keep safe when walking from school.