Drayton After School Scheme (PAWS)

Drayton After School Scheme (PAWS) Drayton Primary School, Hilliat Fields, Drayton, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 4HP

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 8 January 2018 7 February 2017

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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 staff have a very clear understanding of their safeguarding roles and responsibilities. As a result, children's welfare is effectively promoted.  Children thoroughly enjoy their time in the setting, describing it as 'really fun'. They confidently follow their own interests, which helps them to develop their learning and self-esteem.  Staff are consistently well deployed to promote children's safety and to support them in their play and learning. This means that children are safe and their individual needs are effectively met.  Children behave extremely well. They play cooperatively with their friends and build very positive relationships with the friendly, caring staff.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 Managers have identified that staff would benefit from further training. The programme for staffs' professional development is not embedded into practice and so does not fully help to increase their skills to better promote children's needs.  The setting does not consistently use effective methods to seek the views of staff and parents, to help evaluate the effectiveness of the setting and to support further improvement.

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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

 develop the programme for staffs' professional development to enable them to enhance their skills and knowledge and support them in meeting children's needs  develop ways for staff and parents to further contribute to the evaluation of the setting's effectiveness, to assist the setting's continued improvement.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector had a meeting with the provider.  The inspector looked at relevant documentation, including children's care plans, attendance registers, medication and accidents records.  The inspector spoke to members of staff and children at appropriate times during the inspection.  The inspector took account of written feedback provided by parents on the day of the inspection.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

Since the last inspection, leaders, managers and staff have worked together effectively. There have been significant improvements made to the quality of the setting. The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. Staff communicate well and work very efficiently as a team. They know the children, their families and their individual home circumstances extremely well. Staff are very nurturing and are alert to children's differing needs, both in the setting and elsewhere. There are appropriate arrangements to ensure that all adults working with the children are suitable to do so. This means that children are safe and well cared for. Staff liaise closely with parents and carers, such as through newsletters, notice board displays and regular discussion. The parents are highly complimentary about the setting. For example, they comment that staff are considerate, very caring, are incredibly supportive and treat each child as an individual. This effective

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

partnership between the staff and parents and carers helps to promote children's well being.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

Staff plan wide ranging experiences to support children's learning and development. They have a clear understanding of children's differing interests. Staff actively encourage children to contribute their own ideas to the planning of activities. For example, following a request for clay modelling, children become engrossed as they use the material to enthusiastically build their own artistic creations. Staff find imaginative ways to enhance children's learning. For example, when children make models using old computer discs, staff comment that their designs appear similar to the work of the expressionist movement they have been discussing at school. Staff support children well in their play. They remind children how to handle scissors correctly and use modelling tools safely. As a result, children learn ways to help keep themselves safe.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

The environment is safe and welcoming. Staff carefully complete risk assessments to help ensure the provision is suitable for children to use. Children help to decide the setting's displayed rules of behaviour. This means that children know what is expected of them when they attend the club. Staff promote children's healthy lifestyles whilst at the setting. Children have regular opportunities for fresh air and exercise within the school grounds. Staff encourage parents to provide their children with healthy tea time snacks. Staff remind children to drink water to keep themselves hydrated. They have a secure understanding of children's varying dietary and health needs, which are well supported. For example, when children make fruit smoothies, staff speak to parents prior to the activity, to check that the ingredients are suitable for all children to sample.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 133415 Local authority Oxfordshire Inspection number 1116476 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 - 11 Total number of places 25 Number of children on roll 26 Name of registered person Drayton After School Scheme (PAWS) Committee

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Date of previous inspection 7 February 2017 Telephone number 01235 531316

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Drayton After School Scheme (PAWS) opened in 1995. It operates in Drayton Primary School in Drayton, near Abingdon, Oxfordshire. Children have access to the school playground, adventure area and toilets. They sometimes use the school hall. The club is open each day from 3pm until 5.30pm, during term time only. Four members of staff are employed. Of these, three hold relevant qualifications.

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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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