Smartys Breakfast and Afterschool Club

SMARTIES Breakfast and Afterschool Club St. Marys Primary School, Oakfield Road, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 7LX

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 31 January 2017 17 March 2014

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This inspection: Good 2

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Good 2

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This inspection: Good 2

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 2

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This inspection: Good 2

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 2

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This provision is good

 The club is managed well. The provider ensures the supervisor has the skills to lead the staff successfully. The supervisor provides a strong role model and effective support for staff. For example, she enables new and less confident staff to learn from the more experienced members, helping them to gain confidence and develop their skills.  Children arrive happy and excited to see each other. They are eager to choose from the wide range of resources. Children have strong, positive attachments to staff. They spontaneously go to them for cuddles and are secure to discuss their feelings. Children are polite and behave well.  Staff have good partnerships with parents and share important information to meet children's individual needs well. Staff speak to teachers when they collect the children, so they know what sort of day the children have had and how best to support them.  Staff provide good support so that children are independent and confident learners.

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This provision is good

They involve children in planning what they want to do and how they want to do it.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 Staff sometimes have music a bit too loud for children to hear and join in with conversations comfortably.  Staff do not provide a wide range of experiences to extend children's awareness of all aspects of people's differences.

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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

 review the noise levels to help children to be able to hear during conversations and engage fully in discussions  support children further in developing an awareness of people's differences.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed activities and the quality of teaching indoors and outdoors.  The inspector spoke with the staff and children, had a meeting with the supervisor, and carried out a joint observation.  The inspector spoke with children and parents, and took account of the club's self- evaluation.  The inspector checked safeguarding information and the safety of the environment.  The inspector sampled documentation, including policies and procedures, and information shared with parents and teachers.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

Safeguarding is effective. The supervisor and staff have a good understanding of their responsibility to safeguard children and follow their policies well. They know the procedures to follow if they have a concern that children may be at risk of harm. Staff collect the children from their classroom and escort them to the premises to ensure they arrive safely. They follow up any absences with the school. The supervisor makes good use of self-evaluation. Since their last inspection, staff ensure that children follow good hygiene routines. The provider values the views of staff, parents and children and continually looks for ways to keep improving. This has resulted in them revising snack time so that children have more time to spend on activities.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

Children are delighted when they see that staff have planned their requested activity, which motivates their learning further. For example, older children read and follow instructions on making play dough, adding colouring and glitter. Staff plan enjoyable, challenging activities and children learn well as they play. For example, they work out quantities, such as filling a half cup of flour twice to make a full one. Staff successfully help children with their memory by playing games. For example, they suggest that children make up a story to remember a list of items. Staff support children's language skills well. For example, they extend older children's vocabulary and knowledge of the world as they discuss what people did before electricity. Young children contribute their own ideas. Staff have had training to sign and support younger children and those who are learning English as an additional language to communicate. Children have good space

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

to play and be active, and they become competent in their physical development.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Children settle well in the happy environment and have a strong sense of belonging. The supervisor organises staff effectively so that children can make independent choices and receive good support wherever they choose to play. Staff effectively help children manage their own behaviour. For example, they divide the children into teams of mixed ages, which gain credits for positive conduct. The winning team gets to vote on what they would like staff to purchase for the whole club to enjoy. Children understand the staff's expectations and that some rules are for their own safety. Staff provide really good experiences for children to develop an important awareness of managing risks and keeping themselves safe. For example, children wear protective clothing as they learn to use real tools under close supervision. Staff provide children with nutritional snacks and children can help themselves to fruit, milk and water at any time.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY469406 Local authority Somerset Inspection number 1069802 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 4 - 8 Total number of places 35 Number of children on roll 13 Name of registered person Salant Ltd T/A Butterflies Day Nurseries Ltd

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Date of previous inspection 17 March 2014 Telephone number 07714232863

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Smartys Breakfast and Afterschool Club is one of six privately owned childcare provisions. The club registered in 2013 and operates from St Mary's Primary School, Bridgwater, Somerset. The club operates each weekday from 7.30am to 8.45am and from 3.15pm to 6pm during term time and runs a holiday club from 8am to 5.30pm during school holidays. There are five members of staff, three of whom hold an early years qualification at level 3.

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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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