JB’s and Earlybirds Out of School Care Club

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager is passionate about meeting the needs of children and their families.

Self-evaluation is robust. The manager actively seeks views of children, parents and staff to improve and drive forward further changes. • Staff provide a warm and stimulating environment.

The outdoor area is at the core of the setting. Children have continuous access to the outdoor space, which offers an abundance of different learning experiences. They relish opportunities to create a café in the mud kitchen, adding lavender and flowers to their wonderful mud cakes.

• There is an extensive range of good-quality resources for children to freely access and ...make choices about their play. Children settle quickly and become highly engaged with the exciting array of activities on offer. • Children are happy and enjoy their time in the club.

They demonstrate confidence as they interact freely with adults, including visitors. Children understand behaviour expectations well. They are kind and considerate and their behaviour is very good.

• Partnership working is strong. Staff work closely with the host school and parents, sharing information about the children in their care. This creates a consistent approach which complements children's learning.

• Although procedures are in place for monitoring staff practice, supervision is not yet focused precisely enough to support individual staff members to raise the quality of their practice to an outstanding level. • Staff regularly complete relevant training. However, the knowledge gained is not always embedded effectively into everyday practice to raise their already good standards to an even higher level.

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