4 Community Trust Uplands and Breakaway Club

Activities: Staff provide a range of quality activities and the children make choices about what they want to play with.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children are practising their fine motor control in school, and at the provision they enjoy cutting and sticking, and drawing with coloured pens. This is helping them to improve their writing skills.

Communication: Staff share information with teachers about the children and pass messages to parents. Staff routinely inform parents about their children's achievements. Parents access the live online app, which gives them daily information about events in the club.

Community Building: Parents feel very well supported and well informed. They like the online app. Parents describe staff as 'friendly, approachable' and 'helpful'.

Staff Training: All staff hold paediatric first-aid and safeguarding certificates.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Staff greet children warmly. Parents describe staff as 'friendly, approachable' and 'helpful'.

Safeguarding Training: All staff hold paediatric first-aid and safeguarding certificates.

Play and Learning Integration: Children enjoy playing an interactive dance and movement game. They dance and move their bodies.

Transition to Primary School: Children make efforts to find out what children are learning in school and they support this learning in the provision.

Diversity Management: Children have opportunities to develop an awareness of the diverse world they live in.

Child Safety Management: Risk assessments are completed daily before the children arrive to ensure the environment is safe.

Children's Safety and Security: Children show a good understanding of the club rules and follow them well. They are confident to share their views.

Teaching Personal Safety: The inspector observed staff interaction with the children indoors and spoke to staff.

Happiness and Settling: Children enjoy attending this welcoming after-school club and know they can relax after the rigour of the school day.

Nutritional Menu: Children benefit from a healthy snack as they make their own wraps with a choice of fillings, such as ham, chicken or cheese, and a selection of cucumbers, lettuce and tomatoes. For desserts, children have a selection of fruits and they know they can help themselves to drinks.