Club St Michael’s

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

This provision meets requirements Children are happy at the club and develop close friendships with others. They play cooperatively and demonstrate good social skills. Children proudly recall and share with staff their daily experiences from school.

They display positive attitudes and show keen interest in the resources. Children are clear about their own interests. They freely choose what they want to do and ask staff for resources that are not easily accessible to them.

Children show high levels of independence and confidence. They learn to manage small responsibilities on their own, such as washing their hands and feeding themselves. Staff plan for chil...dren to use the school's outdoor playground before going to the club, to ensure they enjoy rigorous activities and exercise to help support their physical skills.

Children develop good mobility, balance and coordination. Staff have high expectations of children's behaviour and act as good role models for them to learn right from wrong. This helps to promote children's positive behaviour.

Children are polite and show respect to others. Staff encourage them to use 'please' and 'thank you' at appropriate times. Staff provide healthy food for children to eat, and support their growing awareness of the benefits of eating healthily.

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

Staff take into consideration children's views when planning play activities, to motivate them and keep them fully engaged. These include craft materials for them to make creative designs and a range of tools to mould and cut play dough into different patterns.Children learn to express themselves effectively.

They listen attentively and demonstrate a good understanding of simple instructions and questions. Children learn to socialise and make relationships with other children. For instance, they are kind and helpful to others and they willingly share and take turns to use the resources.

Staff support children's personal development well. For example, they encourage children to make decisions about their play and support their self-awareness and confidence. Staff support children to recognise their own achievements.

Staff demonstrate to children how to safely use a range of tools, such as scissors to cut tissue paper to make flowers. They supervise and support children appropriately. This helps children to handle equipment and tools effectively.

Staff provide opportunities to support children's growing understanding of similarities and differences in people. For example, they use group discussion to talk about the countries and origins of children's parents, and through creative play children develop an awareness of different cultures, festivals and celebrations.Staff set clear expectations for children's behaviour.

They offer regular praise and rewards for them to consistently demonstrate positive behaviour.Staff greet children positively when collecting them from school, showing them respect and addressing them using their name. Staff participate and interact effectively with children during their play to help maintain their interest.

Children demonstrate a good understanding of the daily routines. They know what to expect next and adapt quickly to changes. Staff support children to develop their health and physical well-being.

They help children to understand the importance of exercise and living a healthy lifestyle.Staff develop close partnerships with parents and other providers that children attend. Information is shared with them regularly to enable continuity in children's care.

Parents speak positively about the club. They believe that children are happy and enjoy attending the club.Leaders monitor staff's practice and their workload.

They complete regular supervision meetings to ensure that staff fully understand the club's policies and procedures and implement their responsibilities effectively. Leaders also identify areas for professional development. As a result, staff attend the required statutory training and implement the safeguarding requirements of the early years foundation stage appropriately.

Leaders work closely with staff to evaluate and improve their practice. They consider feedback from parents and children when providing activities and opportunities, to ensure children have positive experiences at the club.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

Leaders ensure that staff attend safeguarding training and are familiar with the club's safeguarding policies and procedures, to ensure children are safe. Staff have a secure understanding of child protection and wider safeguarding issues. They know how to report any concerns about children's safety to the relevant authorities.

Staff are alert to risks to children, especially when walking to and from the club, and put appropriate measures in place to keep children safe. For example, they are vigilant and teach children about road safety and 'stranger danger'. Rigorous recruitment processes are in place to ensure suitable staff are recruited to work with children.

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