The Village Care Club

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

This provision meets requirements Children enjoy spending time at this happy and relaxed club. They feel safe, secure and valued here. This reflects in their behaviour as they are friendly and welcoming to both visitors and their peers.

Children take part in a range of activities in the spacious outdoor environment. For example, they play football and table tennis and practise their throwing and catching skills. Staff provide children with healthy and nutritious snacks.

Children enjoy choosing fillings and making their own wrap at snack time. Staff ensure that they cater for children's dietary requirements.Staff have high expectations of children.

...>They are positive role models for children. Children play well together, taking turns and sharing equipment. Their behaviour is good.

Children listen to the instructions given by staff and understand what is expected of them. Staff model and encourage children to use good manners. Furthermore, they praise children for their excellent listening skills.

This helps to raise children's self-esteem. Staff provide opportunities for children to find out about different cultures and festivals. This helps them to gain an awareness of the wider world.

Many of the procedures implemented specifically as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic have now been relaxed. However, children still follow stringent arrangements with regards to handwashing.

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

Children's physical development is promoted well.

Staff support children to practise skills they are taught in school. They model how to hold scissors correctly. This helps to develop children's small-muscle movements.

Children enjoy balancing and climbing on the larger equipment outside. This helps to develop children's large-muscle movements.Staff have built effective working relationships with the host school.

They use these professional partnerships to ensure continuity of care for all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities. Staff work closely with teachers to support what children need to work on next. They complement learning that takes place in school to help children consolidate their skills.

Staff ensure that all pertinent information from school teachers is passed on to parents.Parents are thrilled with the service provided. They praise the club for being flexible and accommodating parents' working hours.

They are grateful for the homely environment that staff have created for children.The manager includes children's, parents' and staff views in her self-evaluation of the setting. She uses this information to identify areas for improvement that further promote children's interests and experiences.

She has recently established a children's suggestion box to enhance the ways in which children can voice their ideas.Staff are supported well. Leaders carry out regular observations of staff during supervisions and staff attend frequent meetings.

Staff are encouraged to contribute their ideas through informal discussions and evaluations. They complete mandatory training, such as safeguarding and first aid. However, training opportunities are not yet focused on further enhancing staff's skills.

Staff are interested in children's news and their day. They have developed positive relationships with children. Staff encourage children to respect each other and to celebrate their similarities and differences.

As a result, children are keen to interact with all staff members. Older children are considerate towards younger children. For example, they help them to pour their own drinks.

Children meet their own care needs as they wash their hands before eating. They carry their own plates to the bin when they have finished eating at snack time. These opportunities help to enhance children's growing independence.

Children are confident to express their own ideas. They make choices about what they would like to do and what they want to play with. Clear routines provide children with a good structure to their time spent at the club.

This keeps them well occupied and ensures their needs for rest and refreshment are addressed.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.Staff recognise the signs and symptoms which may indicate a child is being abused.

They know the steps to take should they feel concerned about the welfare of a child. Staff attend training in safeguarding and have a good understanding of safeguarding matters. They complete risk assessments and prepare activities which are suitable and safe for children.

The premises are secure and children are safe. Robust recruitment procedures include rigorous background checks to help ensure that children are always cared for by suitable adults. Staff have appropriate fire procedures in place and regularly practise fire drills.

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