KIDZONE @ High Lane Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

This provision meets requirements Staff greet children warmly as they arrive. Children enter happily after their day at school and enjoy their time at the club.

Staff encourage children to practise good hygiene. Children wash their hands before eating snacks. This helps to reduce the risk of cross infection.

Children build friendships in the club. They talk away to each other about their day and their interests. Children have good social skills.

Staff encourage children to show care and concern for each other. For example, older children set up the train track and trains for younger children. Children are kind and caring.

Staff are good r...ole models for children. They encourage children to say please and thank you and to use good manners during their interactions. Children are polite and respectful.

Staff encourage children to take care of things they use. Children hang up their own coats and move their plates after they have finished eating. Children know where things belong.

They confidently select the toys they want to play with. Children engage deeply in the activities they undertake. Staff provide children with lots of praise and use sticker charts to re-enforce what children have done well.

This helps children to grow in self-esteem. All children behave well.

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

Staff build positive relationships with children and have conversations with them about what they are doing.

Staff talk with children about the pictures they are drawing and the models they are making. Children feel listened to and explain their ideas as they know they are valued.Staff focus on supporting children's good behaviour.

They display pictures and models that children have made for others to see. Staff get down to children's level and support them to engage positively with others. This supports children to understand how to interact well with others.

Staff support children to understand the routine of the club, so that they know what is expected of them. Staff explain to children what is going to happen next, that children can play outdoors and what activities are available indoors. This helps to create a calm environment, where children participate in the things they enjoy doing.

Staff provide regular opportunities for children to engage in physical exercise and to be outdoors in fresh air. Children ride bikes, use bats and balls and chase each other outdoors. This helps children to be physically active and supports engagement in healthy lifestyles.

Staff talk with school teachers about children's time at school. They find out what children are learning at school and what they need to learn next. Staff use this information to guide children's experiences in the club.

School teachers identify that children would benefit from developing their strength in their hands. The club provides activities where children manipulate dough in order to develop these skills. The good relationships with the school help children to receive a consistent approach to meeting their needs.

Staff swiftly respond in a calm manner when children need assistance. When children have accidents, staff give them the emotional reassurance they need and provide the appropriate first aid. This helps children to feel safe, secure and well cared for.

Children are developing good levels of independence. They use the toilet independently and wash their hands before they go out to play. Children are competent at managing their health and self-care needs.

Staff build effective relationships with parents. Staff keep parents up to date about what children do while at the club. This helps to provide a consistent approach to meeting the needs of children.

Staff teach children about difference. They find out about different festivals and try foods from different countries. Children engage in conversation about disabilities.

This helps to develop children's understanding of diversity.Leaders work closely with staff to support them in continuously developing their practice. Staff have undertaken safeguarding training, food hygiene and paediatric first-aid training.

This helps staff to develop their knowledge of how to create a safe environment for children.

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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