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Activities: Children choose where to play and spend time completing games and challenges. For example, children work as a team to carefully balance blocks to build tall towers.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Staff provide extra support to help close gaps in children's learning, For example, staff provide fun activities to help improve children's pencil control and listen to them read.

Communication: Staff give parents plenty of information about what their children do at the club.

Community Building: Parents feel involved in their children's club.

Programs and Resources: Children in receipt of additional funding and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities are well supported. Leaders liaise closely with staff at the school that children attend, to understand and support children's specific needs.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Staff meet the needs of children well. Some staff work within the host school, so they can provide children with better support and consistency.

Safeguarding Training: All staff receive regular safeguarding training and have a good understanding of how to recognise that a child may be at risk of harm. Staff know the procedures to follow should they have concerns about a child's welfare.

Play and Learning Integration: They take care of resources and are polite to each other. Children choose where to play and spend time completing games and challenges.

Transition to Primary School: The club operates a 'buddy' system, where the oldest children help their new friends settle in and spend time playing with them. This helps children quickly feel safe and secure in their new surroundings.

Diversity Management: Children learn about festivals such as Diwali with their friends at the club. They learn about the different types of families that their friends have.

Child Safety Management: All staff receive regular safeguarding training and have a good understanding of how to recognise that a child may be at risk of harm. They are aware of all types of safeguarding issues, including how children can be exposed to extreme or radical views.

Children's Safety and Security: Children show that they feel safe and comfortable as they confidently chat to staff.

Teaching Personal Safety: There is a strong focus at the club on emotional literacy. Staff help children to manage their emotions and talk about their feelings.

Happiness and Settling: Children of all ages are well behaved, listen carefully and respond to instructions. Children feel a sense of belonging at the club.