Have Fun Playscheme Club

Have Fun Playscheme Club Birkett House School, Launceston Road, Wigston, Leicestershire, LE18 2FZ

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 20 July 2016 20 July 2011

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1

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This provision is outstanding

 The manager demonstrates a very strong drive to continued improvements. She has high expectations of herself and the staff team. They are all extremely dedicated and committed to helping children to reach the highest level of achievement.  Staff are qualified and very experienced practitioners. They expertly use their knowledge and skills to support the individual needs of children. Staff ensure that children benefit from high-quality play experiences, have fun and enjoy themselves.  The manager is exceptionally well organised and ensures the environment and staff are well prepared prior to the scheme starting. She pays high regard to the deployment of staff and makes sure children receive extremely high levels of adult support.  Partnerships with parents are excellent. Highly effective arrangements are in place to ensure detailed information is gathered before children start. Parents are warmly

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This provision is outstanding

greeted on their arrival. They are actively invited to share their thoughts and consequently contribute to ongoing developments.  Children and staff build positive relationships in a short period of time. Staff are intuitive and sensitive to children's individual personalities and needs. They are highly skilled in helping children to feel confident, safe and secure.  Staff have realistic expectations of children's behaviour. They implement highly effective strategies to help children to understand rules and expectations. Staff are excellent role models and support children in learning to understand themselves and others.  A high priority is given to ensure that children's health and well-being needs are met. Children regularly enjoy physical activities and exercise indoors and outside. This includes sessions in the onsite hydrotherapy swimming pool.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

To further improve the quality of the early years provision the provider should:

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

 continue to build on arrangements for reflective practice in order to maintain the best quality provision and provide the highest levels of enjoyment and achievement for children.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector undertook a tour of the premises.  The inspector observed activities and staff's interactions with children indoors and outside.  The inspector sampled children's records and care information.  The inspector assessed the suitability of staff and discussed the management's knowledge and understanding of the early years foundation stage.  The inspector took account of the views of parents spoken to on the day of the inspection.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The manager is highly successful in leading the playscheme. She has an excellent knowledge and understanding of the requirements of the early years foundation stage. Arrangements for safeguarding are effective. A range of highly effective policies, procedures and risk assessments is in place, regularly reviewed and updated. Robust recruitment procedures ensure staff are suitable. The manager is very selective in her recruitment of staff, ensuring that they are experienced, qualified, confident and capable to fulfil their role from the outset. She maintains contact with established staff throughout the year. All staff attend training and planning meetings before the playscheme begins. This ensures that they are up to date with expectations and procedures and are confident to put them into practice. The manager plays an active role in the day-to-day activities. She moves between groups, engaging with children and observes and monitors staff

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

practice. The manager evaluates all aspects of the provision. She recognises the challenge of maintaining the excellent practice, given the nature of the provision and the limited time it operates each year.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff provide children with an excellent range of learning opportunities. Planning is highly effective and reflects children's individual needs and preferences. Staff are extremely responsive to children's changing interests. They encourage children to make choices and decisions. Staff introduce different resources over time to enable children to build on their ideas. Interactions between staff and children are excellent. Staff actively support children's engagement and enjoyment of activities. They skilfully tailor teaching strategies to enable all children to participate. Staff talk, use sign language and touch to communicate with children. Their animated voices and faces successfully capture children's attention. Younger children enjoy participating in art and craft activities. They develop their small-muscle skills, using glue sticks and pens to make a character made of sticks from a storybook that they have enjoyed listening too.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children's emotional well-being is a high priority for all staff. They work incredibly hard to ensure children settle quickly and enjoy their time at the playscheme. The highly effective grouping of children and deployment of staff supports excellent relationships. Where children need support with boundaries for good behaviour, staff work exceptionally well, both together and with parents to ensure a consistent approach is maintained. Younger children respond very positively to staff's clear and thoughtful guidance. Staff know the importance of supporting children's independence. Children show pride and a strong sense of achievement as they successfully complete simple tasks, such as sweeping up and tidying away after lunch. Staff help children to make healthy food choices from their lunch box. Mealtimes are a social occasion as children join together to enjoy each others' company.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY265150 Local authority Leicestershire Inspection number 1049978 Type of provision Out of school provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 3 - 19 Total number of places 45 Number of children on roll 73 Name of registered person Sarah Louise Cragg

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Date of previous inspection 20 July 2011 Telephone number 0116 2885802

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Have Fun Playscheme Club was registered in 2003 to provide care for children who have special educational needs or disability and operates from Birkett House School. It runs for two weeks each summer holiday, Monday to Friday, from 9am until 3.15pm. There are 40 members of staff working with the children, 24 of whom hold childcare qualifications, including four with qualified teacher status, two with level 6 and two with level 5.

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This inspection was carried out by Ofsted under sections 49 and 50 of the Childcare Act 2006 on the quality and standards of provision that is registered on the Early Years Register. The registered person must ensure that this provision complies with the statutory framework for children’s learning, development and care, known as the early years foundation stage.

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