School's Out

Activities: Children have many opportunities to make choices in their play from the wide range of activities that are on offer. Their work is prominently displayed, which gives children a positive sense of belonging.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children immediately engage in motivating play opportunities that staff carefully plan for them.

Communication: Staff obtain information from parents and teaching staff before children start attending the after-school club. This enables them to provide activities based on children's interests.

Community Building: Parents are happy with the service provided and feel that staff are very successfully meeting their children's needs. They say that their children are at times reluctant to leave at the end of the day because they are having fun.

Programs and Resources: Children who have additional needs are supported well and staff work closely with teachers and parents to ensure they get the support they need.

Staff Training: The manager completes mandatory safeguarding and designated person training. She ensures that staff also complete child protection training and have a clear understanding of safeguarding issues and how to respond to concerns about a child's welfare.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: All staff know the children very well and have warm and secure relationships with them.

Safeguarding Training: She ensures that staff also complete child protection training and have a clear understanding of safeguarding issues and how to respond to concerns about a child's welfare.

Child Safety Management: Effective risk assessments are in place to minimise risks to children within the environment, and staff check the building daily before children arrive.

Happiness and Settling: All children are happy and settled at the club.

Nutritional Menu: Staff promote children's good health and social skills. For example, they provide children with a variety of healthy snacks and children have consistent access to fresh fruit and water. Mealtimes are a social occasion where children sit together to prepare their own snacks and engage in conversation with their friends.