Great Kids Club

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

This provision meets requirements Children say that the club feels like a family to them. They show positive relationships with staff, such as holding conversations with them about football teams they support. Children show good teamwork when they ball games with staff and their peers.

Staff remind children to include all of their peers, who want to join the game, to ensure that they are included. Children are supervised well by staff, promoting their safety when they play indoors and outdoors. They say that one way in which staff keep them safe is to ensure that the gates are locked before they can play on the host school playground.

Children concentrate ...when they are engaged in activities that interest them. For example, when children use resources to build and construct, when asked, they tell staff that they have made a robot with eyes. This shows children's imagination and encourages them to share their views.

Children happily show pride in their achievements. For instance, they read their own poems to staff and receive praise for their efforts, helping to raise their self-esteem. Children play board games with staff, who help them to develop their knowledge of how to follow the rules in the game and to take turns.

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

The manager and staff also work at the host school. Therefore, when children first start attending, they are familiar with staff who already know them well. This contributes to children settling well and feeling emotionally secure in staff's care.

Staff support children to build on the learning they receive at school during the day. For example, they help children to complete homework and to develop their knowledge of sounds that represent letters of the alphabet, when children show an interest to share their knowledge.Children understand staff's expectations of the routine when they arrive at the club.

For example, they place their belongings in the allocated space and listen well when staff ask them to wash their hands, prior to eating. This contributes to promoting hand-hygiene routines.Staff encourage children to have a sense of responsibility, such as during snack times.

For example, they ask children to help hand out toast to their peers. Mealtimes are a sociable occasions, when all children sit together and talk about their home life and interests.The manager and staff offer children nutritious snacks, such as toast and fruit.

They talk to children about what contributes to a healthy breakfast. However, the manager and staff do not support children to understand the importance of oral health. This will contribute to their knowledge of how to keep their bodies healthy.

Staff encourage children to complete tasks on their own. For example, they make independent choices about what toys and games they would like to play with. Children say that they are able to get their own paper if they want to draw.

Children learn how they can keep themselves safe. For example, they practise fire drills with staff to help them understand the procedure of evacuating the building in the event of a fire. Staff talk to children about the importance of wearing appropriate footwear when they use climbing equipment.

The manager and staff reflect on the experiences they offer children in the club. Recent improvements include purchasing a bouncy castle to enable children to follow their interests to be physically active during the summer holidays.Parents say that their children love to attend the club and like how children know the staff team who also work in the host school.

They say that the staff team know the children well and are accommodating to their individual needs.The manager and staff have rules and boundaries in place to help children to understand what is expected of them. Children understand these and explain to visitors that to be helpful, they put the equipment away and bring footballs in from outdoors.

Children say that to be kind, they can help others.

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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