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Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

This provision meets requirements Children thoroughly enjoy their time at the club. They look forward to attending and feel extremely valued, particularly as staff consider children's interests when planning activities.

Children enjoy playing and relaxing with their friends in the welcoming indoor area. Children benefit from having access to a wide range of resources, such as art and craft resources, that they can use during the free-flow session. Children have ample opportunities to practise developing their strength and coordination skills in the large outdoor spaces, where they run around and play different games with the friendly staff.

Covered outdoor... areas allow staff to teach children in small groups, such as doing planting activities.Staff are kind and caring. Children show that they feel safe and valued as their self-esteem grows.

Staff provide opportunities for children to chat with their friends and new adults. Children confidently talk about their time at the club as well as their experiences in school. They proudly discuss the models they build using different construction resources.

For example, they say, 'I made a heart, inspired by 'inspirational teachers' week that we celebrated at school'. Routines and staff's high expectations of children's behaviour and independence are thoroughly understood and followed by children. This ensures that children are always exceptionally well behaved.

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

Staff provide opportunities that incorporate children's interests to ensure that they are highly engaged in large-group activities. Children successfully work in partnership with their peers. They take turns and share ideas to complete the planned tasks.

This helps to develop children's self-confidence, social interaction, communication, and language skills further.Staff plan opportunities for older children to work in groups independently. For example, children play games, such as completing an obstacle course within a set time frame, and show delight in counting down from 10.

Children encourage and champion each other. They support their peers to feel valued and encouraged when completing the obstacle course. Older children also include younger children in their play.

They are kind, gentle and caring towards their younger peers and help them to complete the obstacle course. This enables children to build relationships and develop their independence skills further.Children understand the high expectations that staff have of them and demonstrate a positive and mature attitude towards their play.

They treat the resources with care. Staff join in with children's play and happily follow their requests. For example, children demonstrate excitement and joy as the staff lay on the ground and allow them to use chalk to draw around them.

This helps children to feel valued.Staff introduce children to a wide array of vocabulary and teach children the meaning of new words. They encourage children, following their planting activity, to give a verbal recount of the activity.

Staff then allow children who have completed their planting activity to take the lead and help their peers who are yet to complete this task. This enables children to develop their vocabulary, communication, language and independence skills extremely well.The providers maintain an ambitious vision for the club.

They continually reflect on the provision to improve the service that they offer. Staff supervisions are effective and enable leaders to identify training needs and set individual targets, thereby improving outcomes for children. Safeguarding procedures are rigorously monitored by the provider, who carries out stringent training and checks to ensure that children are safeguarded from risks exceptionally well.

Staff are complimentary of the provider and the leadership team and express that they feel well supported and valued.Staff ensure that parents are well informed about their children's time at the club. They provide opportunities for parents to give feedback in order to further the club's development.

Parents praise the staff for supporting their children to develop their reading skills through daily reading sessions.The provider is passionate about the care and support available for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). She communicates with the staff at the school that children with SEND attend to ensure that staff in the club employ strategies that are consistent with their school.

This supports children with SEND to have their individual needs met well.

Safeguarding

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