All Kids Ltd

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

This provision meets requirements Children arrive at the club and readily follow the routines for storing away their belongings. Staff set out activities and resources that they know interest the children, which helps them to settle quickly.

There is a happy and calm atmosphere at the club, where the session flows seamlessly. Children understand the rules of the club. For example, they explain about being kind, honest, gentle, working together and listening.

However, children know that the most important rule is to have fun. Staff explore children's understanding even further, such as asking for an example of kindness. This makes children think carefully a...bout what this means and helps embed the rules and reasoning for them.

When staff need to make an announcement, they clap and click their fingers in a rhythm. Children promptly copy this and call a halt to what they are doing. This brings the group together quickly and children show great respect, stopping and listening to the instructions from staff.

Children explain that they like attending the club and that their favourite activities are always ready for them. They also comment that they can ask for other resources and activities. Children report that they have many friends at the club, and this includes children from other classes across the school.

Children receive effective support from staff. This helps them to resolve any minor conflicts they have and to learn about compromise.

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

Leaders provide a clear training programme and meet daily with the staff, to provide guidance and support.

This helps staff to develop their skills to enhance the experiences they offer to children and their families. Leaders follow safer recruitment procedures to help ensure that staff are and remain suitable in their role of working with children.Staff seek information from parents to ensure that they have relevant details.

This enables them to adhere to children's dietary and medical needs. They also gain information about children's family backgrounds which staff use during their conversations with them. This helps to enhance children's sense of belonging at the club.

Children have a keen interest in music, which the staff actively join in with to enhance children's enjoyment. Children accompany music with a variety of instruments and staff show them how they can play the spoons. This intrigues children and extends their knowledge of creativity.

Staff recognise when children need to be physically active and suggest a quick game of football in the outdoor area. Children relish this idea and promptly put on their coats, locate the football and head to the outdoor covered area. Children know to ask staff if they can go and retrieve the ball when it goes over the fence to the school playground.

Children talk with staff about being pen pals with other children across the country and world. They explore what they would tell others about life in England and then highlight similarities and differences. This helps children to learn about and understand the needs of others.

Children enjoy teatimes, which are a social occasion where they sit with staff and talk about their home lives. Staff show a clear understanding of children's family backgrounds and those important to them. This helps aid effective conversations and children's understanding of the lives of others.

Children are considerate and show good manners. For example, when wanting to pass staff and children talking in the doorway, they wait patiently for the conversation to end. They then move through, and staff praise them for waiting and not interrupting.

Children show great pride in their achievements, which staff celebrate with them. This helps to boost children's confidence and self-esteem. For example, they make bracelets from tiny beads, showing immense dexterity for their age.

They take great delight in showing this to the staff and others, and explain how they made it.There are clear procedures in place for supporting children with special educational needs and/or disabilities and their families. They liaise with the school, parents and other professionals involved in children's care and education.

This enables them to adopt strategies that are consistent for the child, helping them to feel safe and secure.Staff foster effective partnerships with parents. Parents comment that their child 'really loves coming to All Kids after school and gets excited for it every week'.

Others report that they find staff friendly and personable and that their children enjoy attending.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.There is an open and positive culture around safeguarding that puts children's interests first.

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