Cestria Extra

Activities: Staff provide a varied range of resources and materials for children to explore creatively. Children concentrate well and are deeply involved in making and decorating models.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Younger children practise their counting and recognise colours when they play a 'four-in-a-row' game. Staff have clear expectations for children’s behaviour. Children behave very well.

Communication: Staff keep parents well informed about their children's time at the club, when they collect their children at the end of the day. The manager makes sure that parents are given information about the activities their children take part in.

Community Building: The manager values the views and opinions of staff, parents, and children. She asks them for suggestions as to how they could enhance the club further.

Programs and Resources: Staff welcome all children. They support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities very well. Staff follow and implement individualised strategies for children.

Staff Training: Staff support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities very well. Staff follow and implement individualized strategies for children, and provide extra support for those children that need it.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Children are happy, safe and settled in the club. They confidently chat to visitors and staff. Children tell the inspector that they enjoy coming and that staff provide them with lots of exciting activities.

Safeguarding Training: Staff have regular training opportunities to help to keep their knowledge up to date, such as broader safeguarding issues and first aid.

Play and Learning Integration: Staff play board games with children. They encourage children to take turns and learn the rules of the game. Younger children practise their counting and recognise colours when they play.

Child Safety Management: The manager makes sure that staff have a good understanding how to keep children safe. Staff know the procedures to follow should they have concerns about children's welfare.

Happiness and Settling: Children are happy, safe and settled in the club. They confidently chat to visitors and staff.

Nutritional Menu: Overall, staff provide children with healthy snacks. They cater well for children's dietary needs and allergies. Children serve themselves from fresh fruit and vegetable platters.