Northowram Kids Club Ltd

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

This provision meets requirements Children enjoy coming to the club and spending time with their friends.

They happily engage in a wide range of activities that test out their physical skills, including table football, badminton and pool. Children cooperate well during team games and group activities, such as football, and staff ensure they understand the rules involved. Staff plan activities where children get to create and design from their imaginations.

They make turtles and robots from junk modelling and staff ensure they have all the materials they need to do so.Staff play enthusiastically alongside the children and deploy themselves well to ensure ch...ildren are safely supervised. Staff praise children's efforts and ask them questions about their creations.

Children have good relationships with the staff who care for them.Staff act as good role models for the children and manage children's behaviour in a calm and positive way. Staff help children to understand the importance of making good choices and to be kind to their friends.

Staff ensure children understand safe walking practices on the walks to and from school, which helps to improve their awareness of road safety.

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

Staff ensure all children are able to participate and be involved in the provision and the activities on offer. Staff take time to listen to the children and actively seek their views, ideas and suggestions.

This helps to shape the provision and enables staff to provide meaningful experiences for children.Staff support children of all ages to play well together and ensure they understand what is expected of them. Children show patience and kindness as they help to explain the rules of board games to the younger children and help them to count the number of spaces to move on the board.

Staff plan activities that encourage children to play cooperatively together. Children enjoy construction and talk to staff about their intentions for a train track, they tell staff that they are making a circular track with a bridge. They make a slide for the dinosaur figures and predict which size of dinosaur will go down the fastest.

They question if the cars will go down faster than the dinosaurs because they have wheels but tell staff the dinosaurs will go down faster because they are 'heavier'. Staff listen attentively to their predictions before encouraging them to test out their theory to see if it is correct.Children enjoy a range of healthy fruit and vegetables and chose from milk or water to drink.

Staff have been on oral health training and talk to children about the importance of living a healthy lifestyle. Children brush their teeth at the before-school club in the morning and understand the importance of oral health for their well-being.Children understand about road safety and explain to the inspector how staff keep them safe with a staff member at the front, middle and behind the group of children.

Children tell the inspector about how they enjoy spending their time while at the setting and recall their experiences of their favourite activities. They get excited as they show the inspector the different sea creatures they have made and explain what materials they have used and how these were decided upon. They explore shape and size, explaining to the inspector why they chose certain sized boxes for the body and more rounded ones for the head.

They demonstrate their ability to effectively problem solve as they explain how they added larger, flatter feet so they can make their robots stand up and not fall over.Safe recruitment procedures are followed when employing new staff and ensure all the relevant checks are completed. All required documentation is in place and contains the necessary detail.

Staff ask parents for a range of information when children first start in their care to ensure children settle in well. Parents report that they feel well informed about how their children spend their time and that their children enjoy coming.The relationship staff have with school is effective and parents report that channels of communication are good, with key information effectively passed on to them within a timely manner.

This supports continuity in the children's care and development.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.There is an open and positive culture around safeguarding that puts children's interests first.