Boomerang

Activities: Staff use children's interests to plan activities. For example, children choose to make a bus out of large boxes.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Staff support children to develop their understanding of the natural world. For example, children find ice in the garden. Staff and children talk together about the ice forming.

Communication: The manager and staff talk to the different teachers when they collect children. This enables staff to pass on any necessary information to parents.

Community Building: Parents are very complimentary of the service the club provides. They appreciate the safe and secure environment and the wide variety of activities offered to their children.

Programs and Resources: Support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities is very good. Staff work in partnership with the host school and parents to ensure consistency.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Children are happy to attend this warm and welcoming club. Staff show a genuine and sincere interest in the children.

Safeguarding Training: The manager understands her role to ensure children's safety. She makes sure that all staff's relevant training is kept up to date.

Play and Learning Integration: Young children show high levels of motivation and problem-solving skills. Children work out to stand up and to shuffle the bicycle forward with their feet.

Transition to Primary School: Staff have very good relationships with the host school. They find out what children are doing in school and use this to guide children's ongoing development.

Child Safety Management: Staff teach children about road safety. They remind children to keep together as a group, to walk on the pavement and to wait until it is safe to cross the road.

Children's Safety and Security: Staff conduct daily risk assessments to ensure that the premises are safe and secure for children.

Happiness and Settling: Children are very sociable. They communicate well with each other and with visitors to the club.

Nutritional Menu: Staff obtain information regarding children's special dietary requirements and food allergies. Staff ensure there is no cross-contamination of food. For example, they use individual jugs for different types of milk.