Happy Faces Out Of School Club

Activities: Children enjoy being creative as they make 'ice creams' with craft materials.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children are encouraged to count and record what they have found in the water tray 'rock pool' and are supported to describe what they see.

Communication: The club has highly successful strategies in place to involve parents in the two-way sharing of information. Staff schedule regular meetings and facilitate an improvement group for parents to attend.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Staff interact with children exceptionally well. They show a genuine interest in children's play. They consolidate learning and extend children's creativity and thinking extremely well.

Safeguarding Training: Staff receive regular child protection training which is monitored extremely closely. They confidently demonstrate an excellent understanding of the club's comprehensive policies and know what to do if they have any concerns about a child's welfare.

Play and Learning Integration: Children are highly involved in the planning of activities and initiate many experiences themselves through skilful guidance and assistance from staff.

Child Safety Management: Staff use highly effective communication with each other to ensure children are always closely supervised. For example, the use of walkie-talkies helps ensure children's safety.

Children's Safety and Security: Children display an exceptional understanding of themselves and how to keep safe. For example, they talk confidently about the importance of wearing sun cream and a sun hat if they want to play outside.

Happiness and Settling: Children thrive in this high-quality setting. They have a very clear sense of belonging.