Kidspace Burbage Juniors

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

This provision meets requirements Staff treat children with kindness and respect. They involve children in making decisions about the activities they would like to take part in while at the club. Younger children are assigned a key person to ensure that their emotional well-being needs are met and to help them feel secure in the club environment.

Children know that they can talk to staff should they feel upset, worried or anxious about something. Younger and older children have established friendships. They play well together, cooperate and take turns with resources.

Children work as a team to build structures out of wooden bricks. They offer their friends... praise as they design and make junk model bird boxes together. Children of all ages enthusiastically tell the inspector that they really enjoy attending the club.

The staff are good fun, and they like being able to spend time with their friends and take part in sport and creative activities. Many children choose to spend time outdoors. Staff supervise children well as they use gardening tools, ensuring that they remain safe.

Children weed, dig and prepare planting boxes for herbs and vegetables. Staff support children's communication well. They encourage the children to recall previous experiences of gardening and growing vegetables.

Staff ask the children what they want to grow in the planting boxes and remind them to listen to each other's ideas. Children take turns in conversations.

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

Staff comment that they are happy working at the club and feel well supported within their role.

The provider ensures that new staff have a thorough induction and understand their role and responsibilities. Additionally, all staff have regular supervision and ongoing access to training opportunities. However, the provider does not focus professional development precisely enough to help staff develop their individual knowledge and skills.

Partnerships with the infant and junior schools that children attend are effective. Staff use drop-off and collection times to communicate with teachers and exchange important information about the children. This helps staff to meet the individual needs of children.

Staff ensure that dietary and medical needs of children are met. When children start at the club, staff obtain information regarding children's special dietary requirements, preferences and food allergies from parents. Staff provide children with a range of vegetables and fruit to eat as part of a nutritious, healthy after-school snack.

Staff remind children that they need clean hands before they serve their own snack, and they encourage children to use good table manners as they eat.Staff offer children plenty of opportunities to develop their physical skills and encourage children to develop active lifestyles. Children have the opportunity to play outside in the fresh air.

Children asks staff to set them physical challenges, such as to set them a course to walk while balancing a ball on a bat. Staff praise children when they are successful in their challenge and complete the course without the ball falling off their bat.Children understand and follow the rules of the club.

For example, they know that they cannot leave the school hall where the club is held. When a child wants to take a picture that they have drawn to their classroom to put it into a friend's tray, they ask a member of staff for permission. Staff remind them that they need an adult to go with them and ask them to wait until a member of staff is free.

Staff use walkie-talkies to communicate with each other, and they help ensure that they are deployed effectively to supervise children at all times, both inside and outside.Staff recognise that some children will be tired after a busy day at school. They provide quiet, cosy spaces for children who want to relax and unwind.

Some children choose to sit together and read books, while others quietly draw and colour in pictures.Staff build positive relationships with parents and carers. Parents speak highly of the staff; they say that they are friendly, helpful and know their children well.

Parents comment that they are happy with the service provided and that their children look forward to attending the club.

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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