Casa Club

Casa Club St Joan's Hall, St. Polycarps RC Primary School, Waverley Lane, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 8BQ

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 17 January 2018 9 December 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

 Leaders and managers coach and support staff effectively to improve their professional development. For instance, regular discussion and training has enabled all staff to skilfully promote children's very good behaviour and social skills.  Staff provide a wide range of activities that motivates children to play when they arrive at the session. For instance, children use their imagination while playing with modelling dough and dressing up. Children confidently use their ideas to initiate games with their friends. For example, using play swords and a balloon.  Staff are good role models for children to copy. They interact and communicate with children in a very positive way and provide them with good challenges. For example, staff challenge children's physical skills while playing team games, such as grandmothers' footsteps.  Staff promote children's good health and independence effectively. Staff have recently

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This provision is good

improved the variety of healthy food available to children attending for breakfast or at the after-school club. They organise snack time well and support children's good table manners. Children eat well and help to clear away their plates when they have finished.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 Sometimes, staff working at the after-school club put the resources away early before children go home. This reduces the variety of play opportunities available to children at the end of the session.

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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

 evaluate and improve the organisation of the latter part of the after-school club session to help ensure children still continue to have a broad variety of activities available throughout the session.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed indoor and outdoor activities.  The inspector completed a joint observation with the manager.  The inspector sampled documentation and discussed self-evaluation.  The inspector talked with children, staff, leaders and managers.  The inspector met with parents and took account of their comments.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

Safeguarding is effective. All staff complete safeguarding training and regularly update their already good understanding of child protection procedures. They know what action to take if they are concerned about a child's safety. The staff all work effectively as a team and they supervise children, risk assess activities and keep children safe. Since the last inspection, staff have improved their communication to help ensure they are effectively deployed. Leaders and managers continually evaluate and improve children's care overall. Staff observe and share examples of good practice, such as in the staff appreciation book. Staff establish effective communication with parents and teachers in the school and this helps them to meet children's individual needs well. Parents spoken to during the inspection make positive comments about the setting. For example, they say that the staff are genuinely friendly and helpful, and provide weekly emails about special events and

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

clubs that are available during the school holidays.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

Staff are very observant of the choices that children make and support them to achieve their aims during their play. Staff extend and complement what children do in school. They recognise what children like to do and provide good opportunities for them to be creative. Since the last inspection, staff have improved the opportunities for children to be active. Children play energetically outdoors. For example, they thoroughly enjoy games of hockey with staff and other children. Staff remind children to pass the ball to everyone so they are included. Staff make these games challenging and exciting for the children. Staff promote children's good friendships and awareness of similarities and differences in society well.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Staff provide a welcoming and stimulating play environment that motivates children to play. They are well deployed to supervise children and keep them safe at all times, indoors and outdoors. Staff warmly welcome the children and support them to express and manage their emotions in an appropriate way. For instance, they encourage children to identify and say if they feel happy or sad, and express the reasons for this. Staff are good role models for children to copy. They skilfully gain children's attention. For instance, children immediately stop playing and listen when they hear staff say 'one, two, three, listen to me'. Children sometimes use this rhyme themselves to gain their friends' attention. Staff teach children how to keep themselves safe. For instance, they remind children to keep the hockey sticks below their knees while playing team games and explain why. Children particularly enjoy being creative and concentrate well while writing

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY334033 Local authority Surrey Inspection number 1070779 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 - 7 Total number of places 50 Number of children on roll 46 Name of registered person Casa Clubs Limited

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Date of previous inspection 9 December 2014 Telephone number 01252 727 000

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Casa Club registered in 2006. It is one of four out-of-school clubs registered under the same organisation. It is located in Farnham, Surrey. The club is open Monday to Friday, during term time, from 7.45am to 8.50am and from 3.15pm to 6pm. During school holidays it is open Monday to Friday from 8am to 6pm. There are eight staff employed to work with the children. Of these, four hold appropriate qualifications, with one at level 4, two at level 3 and one at level 1.

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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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