Fairways Childcare Centre

Activities: Children regularly go for walks in their local area and participate in exciting activities in the local woods, or at the park. They visit the adjacent church and church yard, often collecting items of natural interest or taking a rubbing of the various textures they find.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Staff promote children's learning well during adult-led activities. For example, while making penguin pictures from hand and foot prints, staff talk to the children about penguins. They discuss where they live, how they walk, what their young are called and what they like to eat. Staff introduce new words to enhance this learning, such as 'toboggan.'

Communication: Parents speak very highly of the staff and management. They comment on how well their children settled at the setting and how supportive they find the staff.

Programs and Resources: Staff know the individual children very well and use the information gathered about their progress to help them to plan effectively for children's next stage of learning.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Parents state that their children love coming to the setting and are often disappointed if it is a day that they are not attending.

Safeguarding Training: Staff regularly update their safeguarding knowledge, for example through appropriate training and research. Managers test the staff's safeguarding knowledge regularly and put in place training where gaps are identified.

Transition to Primary School: Children make good progress from their starting points.

Child Safety Management: Staff demonstrate a good understanding of safeguarding issues. They recognize the symptoms that might suggest that a child's welfare is being compromised or that they are not safe.

Children's Safety and Security: Children enter the childcare centre confidently. After a hug from parents and carers, they immediately engage in their chosen play.

Happiness and Settling: Children form caring relationships with the staff, who respond kindly to them. They are on hand to give a reassuring hug whenever needed, or share a joke.