The Lime Trees at Parkdale

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

This provision meets requirements Children are encouraged to persevere when they face difficulties. One example of this is when children say that they cannot use a knife to butter a scone. Staff provide hand-over-hand support and show children how to spread butter on one half safely.

Children then butter the second half of the scone on their own. Children are supported to follow their interests. In the garden, when children want to use chalk, staff play alongside them as they choose to play a game of noughts and crosses.

Children are supported to understand the rules of the game and to take turns with staff. Children are inquisitive when they use bubble mi...xture, asking staff about the colour of the liquid. Staff help them to understand that the liquid is clear and it is the colour of the bottles that makes the liquid look like different colours.

Children laugh with staff and their peers as they watch the bubbles float into the air. Staff suggest they try to catch the bubbles in containers, encouraging them to concentrate. Children are able to revisit their interests from previous days.

For instance, they make 'battle vehicles' on one day and are able to access these the following day from a cupboard, where staff have kept them safe.

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

The manager talks to parents daily about their children's experiences in the club. He passes on information to parents from teachers at school.

Parents appreciate the information they receive from the manager about activities their children enjoy. They say that their children love attending and often do not want to leave.The manager and staff make improvements to the experiences they offer children.

One change includes adapting the daily routine to provide children with opportunities to play outdoors in the host school playground, when other children are not present. This is to help promote their safety.Staff are supported by the management team with their well-being.

For example, they have a well-being officer who they can contact if they need support. Staff receive supervisions to help them reflect on their practice. They attend safeguarding training to keep their knowledge current about how to identify the signs of abuse and where to report their concerns.

The manager liaises with teachers at the host school to find out what children are learning during the day. Staff use this information to help complement the experiences children receive. For example, they provide activities to help children understand the concept of more and less.

Children show positive relationships with staff. This starts from when children first attend. Staff find out about children, holding discussions with them and providing toys that they know they are interested in.

Children give their drawings to staff to take home and take an interest in staff's lives.Children are keen to share their thoughts with staff and visitors. However, staff do not encourage them to share their views about some aspects of the club, such as behavioural expectations and food they are provided with.

This will contribute to children feeling more valued and being able to influence how the club is run.Staff help children to learn how they can keep themselves safe. For example, staff practise fire drills with children, helping them to understand the procedure to follow.

Staff sit with children to research information on the internet to help promote their safety. They support children to learn about how they can keep themselves safe when they use the internet at home.Staff plan exciting activities that children enjoy.

For example, staff hide Easter eggs in the garden for children to find. Children are asked to work as a team to find the eggs and to share these with their peers.Staff offer children daily opportunities to play outdoors for fresh air and exercise.

They offer children healthy snacks to promote a nutritious diet.

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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