Happy Days Club

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

This provision meets requirements Children and staff have friendly relationships.

As they arrive at the club, they chat away. The children appear confident and comfortable with the staff, who they know well. Even new children settle in well and very quickly pick up the routine.

On arrival, they put away their belongings and go to wash their hands. Staff maintain the established daily routine, which helps children to keep track of their belongings and use appropriate hygiene practices to help maintain good health.Children are settled and secure.

They have plenty of activities that they enjoy and rapidly settle into their chosen play. The older and ...youngest children play together, enjoying moulding figures and playing with kinetic sand. They explain that their 'kingdom is on an island' and that the 'fortress is protected by piranhas and sharks'.

The children are imaginative and communicate their ideas to one another. They make friends at the club and gain pleasure in playing together. They are clearly comfortable and at home in the club.

Children's behaviour is very good. Staff make a significant contribution to this aspect of children's care. They calmly communicate the high expectations that they have for children's behaviour, and children live up to these expectations.

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

Staff successfully help children to lead a healthy lifestyle. Children choose from a range of a healthy options, shared during a sociable snack time. Staff talk to children about the nutritional benefits of eating fruit and not having too much butter on crackers.

Children help themselves to their preferred snack and show friends what they have chosen, comparing choices.Children's physical development is promoted well. Children have copious opportunities to run, jump, skip and hop as they complete obstacle courses outside.

Staff play games such as hide and seek with children. This helps to develop children's large-muscle movements. Children thoroughly enjoy their time at the club.

Leaders support staff to extend their professional development. Staff complete mandatory training, such as safeguarding and first aid, to help them to update their knowledge about how to keep children safe.Children who speak English as an additional language are supported well.

Books in their home languages are shared, and staff and children learn how to say hello and goodbye in these languages. This helps children to feel accepted and included.Parent partnerships are strong.

Parents comment on how much children enjoy coming to the club. They praise the club for the home-from-home environment that they create. Staff discuss what children have eaten for snack during handover times.

They also ensure pertinent messages from school are passed on to parents. This helps to provide continuity in children's care.Children benefit from a well-planned club.

They are encouraged to make choices about what they want to do. Staff respond positively to children, encouraging them to get out toys and resources independently. This supports their independence well.

Staff support children's speaking skills well. Children share their ideas and thoughts with confidence and happily talk about what they have done at school with their friends. They listen to each other with interest.

Staff engage in deep conversations with the children. They use these conversations to get to know about children's experiences and their home lives. This is evident as they talk about their experiences of places they have visited and what they did over the weekend.

Children benefit from the staff knowing them well. Staff provide opportunities for the children linked to their interests. They recognise when some children have been at school and then at the club and need to relax, so they provide a cosy area where children can sit and watch a film.

Staff are positive role models. They encourage children to use good manners and praise them. This helps to build children's self-esteem.

Staff encourage children to think about others and their community. For instance, they discuss the uniqueness of each child's family. Staff promote fundamental British values as they help children to share, take turns and wait patiently.

This helps children to develop respect for 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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