4 Children And Families

Activities: Children mix flour, water, lotion, food colouring, and flavouring to make slime mixtures of different consistencies, colours, and fragrances. Children make origami 'chatterboxes'.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children engage in sensory experiences and discuss how they could alter them by adding different ingredients. They fold paper carefully, following a design, and then play with the chatterboxes together.

Communication: Staff work closely in partnership with parents and the host school, ensuring key information is shared.

Community Building: Parents speak highly of the staff and activities on offer at the club. They say that their children enjoy attending and often do not want to go home at the end of the session.

Programs and Resources: The key-person system is effective in ensuring all children are supported and settled in the club.

Staff Training: Staff access training in paediatric first aid, safeguarding, and health and safety, as well as specific training to meet the needs of the children.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Staff interact positively with children, playing fun games like hide and seek.

Safeguarding Training: Staff access training in paediatric first aid, safeguarding, and health and safety.

Play and Learning Integration: Children confidently count to 50 while staff hide a ball; staff then guide children to find the ball by saying they are either 'hot or cold'.

Child Safety Management: Following a recent incident, the security of the club has been improved. The provider and staff have worked closely with the host school and local authority to improve their risk assessments to ensure children cannot leave the premises unsupervised.

Children's Safety and Security: The school site is secure. When parents arrive to collect their children they ring a bell on the gate to alert staff who come and unlock it.

Happiness and Settling: Children show enjoyment in what they are doing as they smile and laugh with one another and staff.

Nutritional Menu: Children enjoy choosing what they would like to eat and select items to fill their own wraps. They wash their hands before eating, demonstrating good hygiene practice.