Hopscotch Kids Club

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

This provision meets requirements Children eagerly enter from the host school and are greeted by nurturing and friendly staff. Children instantly feel relaxed, safe and a sense of belonging as staff show genuine interest while listening to children talk about their day. Clear and consistent routines provided by staff support children's understanding of what is expected of them.

Young children who have recently started show an abundance of confidence and increasing independence when hanging up their coats and belongings on their peg upon arrival, before helping themselves to the healthy snack provided. Children are enthusiastic learners and talk passionately about t...he joyful and exciting experiences they have at the club. Resources consider children's interests and seasonal themes.

They are regularly rotated and cover all areas of learning. Arts and crafts are a firm favourite for many children. They freely access a wide range of craft materials and relish the freedom to be creative in their own way.

Children play happily together. Older children delight in inviting their younger peers to join in their outdoor ball games. Children enjoy the snuggle area where they can wrap up in a blanket and read a story or play a game of choice with their peers.

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

The manager and staff have a reciprocal and highly effective relationship with teachers at the host school. Working together and daily communication ensures staff plan activities that complement learning experiences at school and promote children's overall well-being at the club, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities.The manager attends positive behaviour training alongside the host school.

This cumulative approach means that positive behaviour strategies are consistently reinforced and embedded in the culture of the school and the club. As a result, children frequently show how they can regulate their own behaviour exceptionally well. They understand and accept the needs of others, such as when writing their name on a list to wait for their turn with a popular toy.

Children build secure relationships with staff and peers. Staff encourage positive attachments by being frequently responsive to children's needs. Children are extremely kind and polite.

Staff are excellent role models as they gently remind children to say 'please' and 'thank you' and consistently praise their good manners.The manager explains how she ensures the indoor and outdoor environments are safe, through robust, daily risk assessments of the club. Children's individual health care needs are prioritised.

Daily procedures are securely embedded in staff practice and care plans regularly reviewed with parents. For example, a meticulous and safe process is in place at mealtimes with a fun plate system, ensuring children with dietary, or food allergies have their personal needs met.Staff report great well-being and praise the support they have from the manager.

The manager is passionate about continuously improving the club together with the staff team. She ensures staff maintain secure safeguarding knowledge and most staff hold a paediatric first-aid certificate. Staff know the children in their care remarkably well.

They are vigilant when children are not feeling themselves and act appropriately and with empathy to ensure their well-being.Children develop healthy food choices and lifestyles. They show they have a good understanding of hygiene routines when washing their hands independently before eating.

Younger children thrive from the endless opportunities available to them to become increasingly independent in learning new skills. At mealtimes, staff provide them with the right amount of support, and meaningful praise that empowers and successfully enables them to make their own sandwich like their older peers.Parents are extremely complimentary about the dedicated staff and excellent care their children receive at the club.

They appreciate daily face-to-face communication and report on how flexible and accommodating staff are such as enabling children to attend the setting after their extra-curricular activities at the link school.

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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