Kidscape at Livingstone Primary Federation

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

This provision meets requirements Children arrive happy and keen to attend. They move around freely, choosing activities for themselves and finding friends who they chat to and cuddle. Children enjoy a good range of activities in the two playrooms.

These include games, construction and imaginative play, reading and creative activities. Outdoors, children join in running and ball games, and time one another on obstacle courses.Children benefit from positive staff role models who have high expectations of children's behaviour.

Staff help children to understand the group's 'golden rules', such as sharing, respecting one another and listening to others. Childr...en develop very good social skill, include one another kindly and comfort anyone feeling sad. Older children guide the younger ones to help them learn what is expected.

Children learn about British values, such as what democracy means to develop positive attitudes.Staff have adapted their practice to protect the health of children and families and to keep them safe throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. For example, they station hand sanitiser on the entrance for anyone arriving and all children and staff wash their hands on entering the premises.

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

Staff develop successful partnerships with the children's schools. They meet regularly with teachers to exchange information about children's needs and well-being. Staff find out about children's learning needs to help them complement children's development in school.

Staff plan activities each day to provide interesting sessions for children and to reflect any topics and events in the school. This helps to build further on what children are learning. For example, children use books and the internet to find out facts about cheetah's as part of international cheetah day.

They discover how fast the animal travels, the 'purr' sound they make and create drawings of the animal.Staff provide children with challenges to encourage their problem-solving skills. For example, children play games in which they work out how to remove blocks from a tower without it collapsing.

Staff teach children the rules of exciting group games to play to broaden their interests. However, on occasions, some large-group activities become overcrowded when lots of children try to join in. At such a time, some children cannot get involved and lose interest.

Staff form good relationships with children. They provide a warm welcome and children enthusiastically include them in their play. Staff encourage children to suggest activities each week to ensure their ideas and interests are valued.

This helps to ensure children enjoy their time at the group. They provide lots of opportunities for children to listen and talk. For example, they bring children together for a register time to encourage them to talk about their day and join children at sociable snack times to ask them about their lives.

Children's well-being is closely supported by staff. Staff encourage children to talk about anything negative from their day at school. They have created a quiet space for children to go and reflect on how they are feeling and find ways to manage their emotions.

This includes strategies for managing feelings of anxiety or sadness.Partnerships with parents are good. Parents share positive feedback about the care of their children.

For example, they state they cannot praise Kidscape highly enough, that their children have lots of fun with the constantly changing activities and staff are extremely professional and polite.The provider and staff evaluate the quality of the provision effectively to make ongoing improvements. The provider monitors the quality of staff's knowledge and skills successfully and provides supervision and development opportunities to help them meet the needs of children well.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.The provider follows effective recruitment procedures to ensure that all staff are suitable to work with children. Staff demonstrate a secure understanding of their safeguarding roles and responsibilities, and the risks to children.

They are clear of the procedures to follow in the event of any concerns about a child in their care to keep them safe. The provider and staff keep up to date with new guidance and safeguarding issues within the community to help protect children from harm. Staff maintain safe and secure premises and help children to learn about keeping themselves safe, such as playing ball games safely to ensure no one gets hurt.

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