Footprints Out Of School Care

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Children develop positive relationships with staff.

Staff create an accessible and safe indoor learning environment which is relaxed, fun, friendly and stimulating. Staff interact well with children. They effectively reinforce the skills children require for their future learning as they move through primary school and beyond.

• Staff are good role models. They encourage children to develop essential social skills and this is reflected in children's positive and respectful behaviour. Children enjoy linking up with one another during activities, sharing ideas and playing collaboratively.

They show good independence. • The manager, in clos...e consultation with the provider, evaluates and monitors practice well. This includes staff's performance.

The provider uses a good variety of self-reflection tools to help inform improvements. Children and parents are encouraged to share their views, for instance, through questionnaires and a suggestion box. • Staff effectively promote children's safety and physical well-being and give them clear messages about the importance of keeping themselves safe and healthy.

• The effective deployment of staff enables children to choose to move freely between indoors and outdoors. • Staff do not consistently gain purposeful information when children first start at the club to gain clear information about their individual needs and interests. Subsequently, children's key persons do not optimise information sharing with parents.

• Staff plan a broad range of interesting and educational outings during the school holidays to complement children's experiences. However, where children have a preference to play outdoors, staff do not make best use of the club's outdoor play area. • Staff do not consistently share precise information with staff from the school's Reception class to fully support children's moves between settings or to complement their experiences.

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