Lask Childcare

Activities: Staff identify that children like creative activities.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children ask staff for help when needed, for example when placing beads onto a board. When engaging in art and craft activities, children are encouraged by staff and display high levels of engagement for sustained periods.

Communication: Daily discussions take place between staff and parents when parents drop off or collect their children. Parents say that this handover reassures them as they know what their children have been doing.

Community Building: Parents like the regular newsletter that the manager sends with useful updates.

Programs and Resources: Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are supported well. Staff know children's individual needs and adapt the provision as needed.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Staff have strong relationships with the children they care for. They know the children very well.

Safeguarding Training: Staff complete the local authority safeguarding training as part of their induction before they start at the club.

Play and Learning Integration: Children are encouraged to be independent.

Transition to Primary School: Staff sensitively inform parents if a child has been a little upset or unsure during the session.

Child Safety Management: There are clear procedures in place if staff have safeguarding concerns.

Children's Safety and Security: Children demonstrate that they feel safe and secure.

Happiness and Settling: Staff find out about children's likes and dislikes and what activities they enjoy. This helps the quieter, less confident children to settle quickly at the club.

Nutritional Menu: Children make healthy wraps, talking about the different food they choose to put inside. Fresh drinking water is available throughout the session and children help themselves to this, as well as fresh fruit.