Castle care Club at Meadows School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff work well together and are a close-knit team.

They benefit from a strong management team and providers who are hands on and supportive. They reflect on and evaluate their practice to ensure they continually improve. • Strong and effective partnerships exist between staff from the club and the host school.

The manager regularly meets with staff from the school to share information with them. This ensures continuity of care and learning for all children. • Behaviour is exceptional.

Staff treat children with respect and teach them to respect others. Children use manners and are polite and courteous. Children are aware of the boundarie...s of the club and adhere to them.

For example, they know not to go behind the grass mound in the playground so that staff can see them at all times. Staff praise children and are interested in what they have to say. This promotes children's feelings of self-esteem and self-worth and develops their confidence.

• Children's health is well promoted. They have open access to outdoors where they can exuberantly, but safely, let off steam at the end of the school day. Children enjoy healthy snacks which include a variety of fresh fruit.

Staff sit with children during snack time and talk to them about what they have done during the day. • Methods for sharing information with parents about activities their child has taken part in, and future events within the club, are not always robust enough to ensure all parents are fully informed. • Children do not routinely access a wide enough range of resources, on a day-to-day basis, to ensure they consistently benefit from the best possible experience at all times.

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