Little Oaks Out of School Club Limited

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

This provision meets requirements Children are happy and engaged. They excitedly enter the club after a busy day at school. Children show a firm sense of belonging and have strong bonds with all members of staff.

The manager uses daily risk assessments to ensure that all environments are safe and secure at all times. She is quick to adapt these risk assessments when potential harm is identified. This helps children to be able to explore and use areas independently.

Children have a good understanding of how to behave well and work with others. They are caring and are building good friendships at the club. Partnerships with parents are strong.

Paren...ts feel very supported and value the strong sense of community that the club creates. Younger children have a designated key person who supports their overall well-being. However, occasionally, staff do not organise themselves to ensure that they are quick to respond to children's changing needs and requirements.

Children enjoy nutritious snacks to help them to make good choices in the food they eat. However, staff do not always use consistent explanations to ensure that children follow healthy attitudes towards routines. Staff value the children's views to help them to plan exciting activities and experiences, and this helps to keep children engaged and involved.

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

Children have many opportunities to have access to the outdoors to support their physical development and to give them time to run around after their day at school. Children use large-scale equipment to climb and balance, and they use other resources such as bats and balls to build further on their coordination skills. Occasionally, staff do not organise themselves effectively to respond quickly to the needs and requirements of children.

Staff are supported through regular supervision to promote their well-being and discuss issues directly with the manager. Staff attend regular meetings with the wider staff team to share suggestions and ideas and develop a firm ethos and vision for the club.Staff help to build further on children's understanding of healthy eating and making good choices in the food they eat.

Children have access to nutritious snacks and help to make meals to involve them further in this important area of their development. However, not all staff use consistent explanations to help children to develop healthy attitudes towards the routines, for instance using the areas that are designated for eating snack and why this is important for their own self-care.Staff have opportunities to build on their continuous professional development.

The manager understands the importance of staff updating their knowledge and understanding, and how this directly affects the quality of the care they provide.Children are articulate and can express their own needs and wants. They enjoy involving staff in discussions about their day at school, and staff take a genuine interest in each and every child.

This helps children to build strong self-esteem and know their opinions are valued and respected.Self-evaluation is used well to identify areas for improvement. The manager values the comments of the staff team, parents and children in helping to inform further areas for change.

Children are creative and imaginative. They use resources to make jewellery and problem-solve together to figure out how to make a very long structure. Children spend lots of time concentrating and persevering on tasks of their own choosing.

This shows that children are content and self-reliant.Staff plan for different experiences to keep children entertained in their play. Children become immersed in large board games and show their increasing mathematical skills.

For example, they count the dots on the dice and move up and down the snakes and ladders. Children show their increasing social skills as they wait patiently for their turn.Children have a growing understanding of how to use early technology safely.

They can navigate their way around games and are careful in looking after resources that they use. This helps children to learn about being responsible for their own actions. Older children are kind and caring towards the younger children who attend the club.

They happily help them to learn new skills, and they show good levels of empathy and awareness of the needs of others around them.Children are developing a keen awareness of the wider world around them. Staff plan activities that help children learn about different festivals and cultures.

This helps children to learn about the differences and similarities between themselves and others. For instance, children enjoy creating pictures for Chinese New Year and use their creative skills to colour animal masks.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

Every effort is made to ensure that children and families feel safe and secure in the environment. The whole team is trained and vigilant around safeguarding and understands the responsibility to continually keep children safe. Staff are confident in how they would identify potential signs of abuse.

They understand the reporting procedures and what to do if they are concerned about the safety of a child. All areas are secured with locked doors and gates to keep children safe at all times. Recruitment procedures are robust to ensure the suitability of all staff who work directly with the children.

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