Active Discovery Camps

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What is it like to attend this early years setting?

This provision meets requirements Staff welcome children into the club at the door. Children separate with ease from their parents.

A wide range of activities are available, indoors and outdoors, to capture children's interests. Outdoors, children can use their large muscles to play football or basketball with their friends. There are opportunities to learn new skills, such as twirling plastic hoops around their bodies.

These activities help to support children's physical development. Indoors, children access arts and crafts. They carefully use their fingers to dot paint inside pictures, which talented staff have drawn for them.

Children can acces...s sensory play as different textures and mixtures are placed in sealed bags. This allows children to feel and squish them and talk about colours and shapes. Children use their small-muscles skills as they manipulate play dough and pasta together.

This helps to support children to strengthen the dexterity in their hands and fingers, which supports skills for writing and pencil control.The club offers a different programme of events with a focused activity for each day. Children enjoy baking.

They enjoy working out the ingredients and mixing with exuberance. All children are supported to make their own fairy cakes. Children decorate their cakes to take home and talk about who they will give their cakes to.

They gain a sense of pride and accomplishment as staff praise them for their efforts. Children build very strong relationships with staff. They ask staff to sit with them at lunchtime and save a seat for them.

Children feel exceptionally safe and secure.

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

The provider and his staff are excellent role models. They promote an inclusive and respectful culture throughout the club.

Older children play games with the younger children and help them to understand the rules of the number card games. Children behave well. There is a calm and inviting atmosphere which helps all children to settle.

Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are supported and welcomed at the club. The provider and staff gather information about their individual needs. They fully support them to integrate and take part in all activities and to make the best possible progress.

A large, dark pop-up tent is provided indoors as a quiet space with reading books and sensory lights for children to access if they need time away. Outdoors, there is a reading shed which offers quiet space. This means that although children are having quiet time, they are still involved with what is happening around them.

The provider and his staff team support children's development. Staff skilfully interact with children as they access the activities on offer. They ask questions to support children's communication and language skills.

Staff also further enhance children's mathematical abilities. During activities, children are asked to think about how much more they make need to make 100, or how much they need to take away.Regular staff appraisals throughout the year when the club is operating, and effective supervision, ensures that staff keep up to date with training.

Reflective practice is encouraged. The provider and staff reflect on how well the activities were received by the children and what they may do differently. They involve children in making decisions about what they would like to do while at the club.

The provider and staff are experienced with working with children. For example, sport coaches lead the sporting activities on offer. Other staff are teachers or teaching assistants and some specialise in early years.

This means that children receive a good level of teaching. Staff adapt their teaching to meet the needs and understanding of the children. However, on occasion, group activities could be managed more effectively to allow children with less confidence to express themselves more.

The provider ensures that children can access their entitlement to any funding which is available. Activities promoting physical exercise and lunches are provided for children who are eligible.Children learn how to keep healthy.

Staff talk to children about sugar and the effect this has on their body and teeth. Children follow good hygiene practices. They wash their hands regularly, especially when completing baking activities.

Staff are diligent in ensuring that if fingers go near mouths or utensils, then children wash their hands again and new utensils are provided.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.The provider and his staff team receive training in safeguarding through their jobs as teachers and sports coaches.

However, the provider is diligent in his duty and staff are required to undergo safeguarding training as part the club. Staff recognise the signs and symptoms which may indicate children are at risk of harm. They know the procedures to follow to report concerns about children in their care.

Staff confidently explain what action they would take if they had concerns about any of their colleagues, to ensure children's safety. The premises are safe and secure. Children follow the rules of where they can play outdoors so that staff can constantly supervise them.

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