FAIR PLAY OUT OF SCHOOL CLUB WAVERLEY ROAD

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

This provision meets requirements The provider and staff work hard to create a warm and welcoming atmosphere for children. Staff are gentle, kind and caring. Children's emotional and mental well-being are central to the ethos of the club.

Children are happy and confident. They laugh and joke with staff as they enjoy a wide range of games and activities. Children form strong friendships with each other.

They enjoy each other's company and are polite and respectful. Children develop social skills, which will support them in creating positive relationships in their future lives. For example, boys and girls enjoy imaginative play together, excitedly talking to... each other about the game they are playing.

Staff understand how to keep children safe and well. They constantly risk assess as children play. Children are encouraged to manage their own risks, working with staff to learn how to keep themselves safe during activities.

They understand the routines in place at the club. For instance, they listen carefully to instructions. Children respond well to the high expectations staff have for their behaviour.

They learn how to make healthy choices. For example, eagerly choosing from a wide variety of fruit and vegetables at snack time.

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

Children gain a sense of achievement, for instance, as they take part in craft activities.

Staff carefully plan activities which children can complete over a number of days. Children look forward to returning to complete their projects. For example, they make paper lanterns.

Children spend time decorating paper with paint and glitter. They practise using their fingers as they carefully cut the paper. Children concentrate as they learn to tie knots.

They build on skills they learn at school and develop new ones. Children become absorbed in what they are doing and concentrate for good amounts of time.Staff support children in enjoying outside play.

Children run, jump, roll and play with balls. Staff are invited to join in with their games. The provider considers different ways to encourage children's physical activity.

For instance, children are excited by being outside at dusk when the days are shorter. Their physical health is supported well.The provider understands not all children have the same advantages.

They provide resources and activities which children may not be able to access outside of the club. Staff are skilled at supporting children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. Children are asked for their ideas about how to create an inclusive environment.

Their suggestions and input into the club are important to the provider and staff.Staff say the provider places a strong focus on developing their professional skills and knowledge. They have regular meetings where they discuss, for example, keeping up to date on research around supporting positive behaviours in children.

The provider and staff regularly update their safeguarding knowledge. The provider works with a range of professionals to provide training for staff. They reflect carefully on the service they provide for children and their parents.

Parents are highly supportive of the staff and provider. They say they appreciate the strong two-way flow of information between them and the club. Parents highlight the careful balance staff provide between children having free time to play and planned activities.

They say this works well. Parents praise the care staff take to settle children into the club. They value the relationships they, and their children, build with staff.

Parents say staff keep their children safe.Children say they really like attending the club. They excitedly look forward to being read their favourite stories while they eat their snack.

Children enjoy the comfortable spaces staff create within the club, where they can sit quietly if they wish. There is a range of fiction and non-fiction books for them to look at and read. Staff provide soft toys and cushions.

Children can snuggle up if they are tired at the end of a long school day.

Safeguarding

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