Pied Piper Great Walstead

Activities: Children are fully engaged in well-planned activities. They learn to risk assess for themselves while hunting for sticks in the woods under the watchful eye of staff.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Staff have high expectations and are excellent role models for the children. They develop consistent strategies that promote children's understanding of expected behaviour and, as a result, children behave exceptionally well.

Communication: Parents say that they are given exceptionally detailed information before camp starts. This information is also available in an activity pack so that children are familiar with the programme before camp begins.

Programs and Resources: Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities thrive in the inclusive environment. Staff complete additional training to ensure that they can fully meet children's medical needs.

Staff Training: Staff complete additional training to ensure that they can fully meet children's medical needs.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Staff are well supported by managers. They receive a rigorous induction which allows them to carry out their roles and responsibilities effectively.

Safeguarding Training: Managers have an extremely robust recruitment process, in addition to ongoing training, to ensure that children's safety is a priority.

Play and Learning Integration: Staff extend on children's ideas well. For example, when constructing a circus out of blocks, children collectively decided that they wanted to narrate and record what they had made.

Transition to Primary School: The setting helps foster highly positive relationships between children and staff, arguably supporting smooth transitions to primary school.

Child Safety Management: Daily risk assessments are carried out to make sure that the grounds and buildings are safe for the children.

Children's Safety and Security: Children demonstrate they feel safe in the staff's warm care. They follow the arrival routines with confidence as staff encourage them to independently put their own belongings away.

Happiness and Settling: All children are happy and settled.

Nutritional Menu: Staff remind children to drink water regularly during the day and talk about healthy choices at regular opportunities.