Schools Out Northwest

Schools Out Northwest Emmanuel Centre, 174 Langworthy Road, SALFORD, M6 5PN

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 16 August 2017 20 July 2016

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This inspection: Good 2

Previous inspection: Requires Improvement

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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

 Managers and practitioners have worked hard to improve the provision. They demonstrate commitment to achieving the highest standards. The manager ensures that practitioners complete all mandatory training.  Practitioners are friendly role models who clearly enjoy the company of children in their care. They establish consistent boundaries for children's behaviour. Children learn to be polite to each other and take turns. They listen to everyone's views and ideas.  Partnerships with parents are strong. Parents report that children like coming to the club. They are pleased that children make new friends and they feel well informed about children's care.  Practitioners demonstrate good knowledge and understanding of the learning and development requirements. This helps them to complement and extend what children learn in school.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 The regular appraisal of practitioners' interactions with children does not yet lead to specific and measurable targets that promote continuous improvement in their practice.  On occasion, practitioners do not make the most of opportunities to promote children's independence.

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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

 build on the systems for assessing the performance of practitioners so that plans for their professional development are sharply focused and drive rapid improvement  provide even more opportunities for children to develop the highest levels of independence.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of interactions during activities. She assessed the impact these have on children's well-being.  The inspector spoke with managers, practitioners and children as appropriate during the inspection. She looked at relevant documentation and evidence of the suitability of practitioners working in the club.  The inspector completed a joint observation with the club manager.  The inspector took account of the views of parents and carers.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

Children are happy and enthusiastic about attending the club. Arrangements for safeguarding are effective. Systems for recruiting practitioners are robust and the manager regularly checks that practitioners remain suitable to work with children. Managers keep up to date with changes to national and local requirements for child protection. They train practitioners to implement the club's safeguarding policy and procedures. Practitioners know what they must do if they consider that a child may be at risk of abuse or neglect. Managers identify and minimise risks to children and this helps to keep children safe. Managers seek the views of parents, children and professional partners when they evaluate the provision. They plan and carry out actions that improve children's care and experiences. For example, managers have strengthened the partnerships with schools that children attend. School practitioners praise the good organisation and

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

professional manner of practitioners when they collect children from school.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

Managers and practitioners demonstrate good knowledge and understanding of the learning and development requirements. For example, children take part in a craft activity that helps them to improve their early writing and scissor skills. While children are busy they talk with practitioners about a wide range of topics, such as events at home and holidays. This helps to promote children's conversational skills. Practitioners identify and extend children's interests effectively. For example, practitioners extend children's play with modelling dough and they make food to sell in a 'restaurant'. This helps to promote children's imagination and role play. In addition, children learn more about counting and money when they buy and sell the food.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Relationships between practitioners and children in the club are good and practitioners successfully promote children's positive behaviour. For example, children know the rule that if they bring toys from home they must share them. Practitioners remind children about the rule and praise them when they follow it. Children choose freely from a wide range of toys and resources. Practitioners organise the room so that there is space for quiet play alongside more physical play. As a result, children relax, read and talk as well as taking part in energetic activities that help to keep them fit. This helps to promote children's confidence and well-being. Children eat healthy meals and snacks. They know why they must wash their hands before they eat. Children with allergies to certain foods are safely catered for.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY480027 Local authority Salford Inspection number 1085454 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 - 11 Total number of places 50 Number of children on roll 16 Name of registered person Schools Out (Northwest) Limited

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Date of previous inspection 20 July 2016 Telephone number 07799017955

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Schools Out Northwest registered in 2015. The club employs six members of childcare staff. Of these, three hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3 and two at level 2. The club opens from Monday to Friday, all year round. Out-of-school club sessions are from 3pm until 6pm. Holiday club sessions are from 8am until 6pm.

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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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