Premier Wrap Around Club @ Deer Park

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

This provision meets requirements Children enjoy their time at this welcoming before and after school club.

They arrive eager to share information about their day with their friends. Children know the routine and place their bags and coats on benches. Staff provide opportunities for children to do things for themselves.

For example, children create their own wraps from a variety of healthy options available. Staff offer help to younger children, supporting them to position their knives correctly so they can butter their own crackers. Children carefully carry plates to the table so they can sit and eat with their friends.

This supports children's g...rowing independence. Children thoroughly enjoy taking part in circle games. Staff are positive role models and carefully explain the rules of a game to children.

Children focus as they take turns throwing balls back and forth with staff. Staff present further challenges, adding additional tasks that must be completed before each throw. Children concentrate as they recall if they need to bounce the ball or clap their hands together.

They giggle when they forget and are 'caught out'. Children happily follow the rules and sit down as they know they can join the next game. This helps foster children's developing resilience.

When younger children struggle to remember the rules, staff provide support to help them recall these and persevere to keep trying.

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

Leaders and managers ensure all staff undertake regular training to keep their knowledge up to date. For example, staff maintain certificates in paediatric first aid and food hygiene.

In addition, they complete regular safeguarding training. Managers ensure staff attend weekly 'huddles' to ensure ongoing support.Staff provide a variety of resources and activities to support children's creativity.

For example, children carefully use wooden craft sticks to scratch thin black layers of paint from cards to reveal the vibrant colours underneath. Other children use pencils to draw intricate images on paper, which they carefully cut out with scissors. Staff offer praise and encourage children to talk about their ideas.

This motivates children to show off their creations.Staff understand the importance of supporting children's health and well-being. They ensure children have access to fresh drinking water, fresh fruit and vegetables at all meals.

During snack time, children talk freely to staff and friends about what they have been learning at school. This helps children practise important social skills as they take turns and listen to one another.Staff provide an abundance of activities to suit the needs of each child.

Some children prefer to play one-to-one games with a chosen friend, while other children create bigger games where everyone is included. Staff stand back and do not take over children's play. They intervene when children require help or when they can add value to an activity.

For example, children struggle to determine which toy car will travel the furthest. Staff help them set up cones as a starting point, and children are encouraged to take turns to release their cars. Children quickly pick up the rules, allowing staff to step away.

Children behave well. Staff provide support to help children follow the routine, take turns and share resources. All children are actively engaged throughout the session, and the room is full of excitement and laughter.

Staff provide gentle reminders to help children keep themselves and others safe. For example, children are reminded to keep the walkways around benches clear so their friends do not trip. This helps children learn how to play safely.

Overall, children are positive about the provision. They say they enjoy the games and the craft activities that the staff provide. Children say they get to play with their friends, and it is also a chance to make new friends.

However, children say they do not always get to play outdoors as much as they would like.

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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