Blackboard Schooling Support & Solutions Ltd

Blackboard Schooling Support & Solutions Ltd Unit 8, Hedgend Industrial Estate,shuart Lane, St Nicholas At Wade, Birchington, CT7 0NB

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 16 March 2018 18 October 2017

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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 exceptional leadership qualities. She has worked extremely hard to rapidly transform and improve the excellent professional practice of staff, and to develop the learning environment.  Children are extremely happy and relaxed in the club. Their excellent behaviour towards one another helps all children to feel settled and respected.  Children are collected from school by a 'walking bus'. This provides a superb opportunity for them to enjoy fresh air and vigorous exercise after a day at school. Planned games and songs motivate children to run, walk and skip excitedly through the countryside.  The nurturing and extremely caring staff support children's emotional well-being very successfully. Their remarkable energy and enthusiasm encourage children to try new experiences and have plenty of fun.  Partnerships with parents are exceptionally effective. Parents are wholly confident in

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This provision is outstanding

leaving their children in the safe and welcoming environment. They value the excellent communication and information sharing, which helps to fully support children to transfer easily between school, the club and their home.  Staff know the children extremely well. They plan an extensive range of activities that totally absorbs and inspires the children to explore and play.

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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

 maintain the highly effective evaluation process, to continue making excellent progress in improving practice.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed children playing indoors.  The inspector walked with the children from their school to the club.  The inspector held a meeting with the manager.  The inspector spoke with staff, children and parents at appropriate times throughout the inspection and took their views into account.  The inspector looked at a wide range of documentation, including children's records, staff recruitment, improvement plans, policies and procedures.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The manager is a calm and inspirational leader who has worked tirelessly to make significant changes to the club. She uses the views of staff, children and parents exceptionally well, to help her set accurate targets for improvement and to analyse their impact. She plans to extend this practice further to maintain the excellent standards. Recruitment and induction of new staff are extremely thorough. Staff receive outstanding and regular support to develop their professional knowledge and skills, through targeted training, meetings and mentoring. For example, following training all staff have an excellent understanding of safeguarding and child protection. Safeguarding is effective. Staff instantly know how to respond if a child's welfare is at risk. They are highly vigilant of children's safety when collecting them from school. The manager works closely with the local authority and with other professionals, to extend her skills. She is excited about

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

continuing to develop the club in even more innovative and inspirational ways.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff fully understand the importance of purposeful and energetic play. They interact exceptionally well with the children by providing activities that offer extra challenge and enormous fun. Children can instantly settle to their favourite activities when they arrive from school. For instance, some go straight to the art area while others enjoy playing at the pool table. They have excellent opportunities to be independent and to choose what they would like to do in the week or 'in the moment', and staff carefully incorporate their ideas into their highly effective plans. Staff provide exciting resources to skilfully extend children's concentration and focus. For example, they find new materials for children to use on the Easter activity they have brought with them from school.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

All children know the routines and rules of the setting extremely well. The respect they show for one another is wonderful. For example, children playing physical games do not interrupt those who want quiet time. They thoroughly enjoy the superb walk back to school where they engage in activities such as scavenger hunts and games. They also notice and comment on the changing environment. For example, children point out the blossom forming on the trees. Children are encouraged to look after themselves extremely well. They develop excellent hygiene routines, such as washing their hands before eating. They competently serve themselves with nutritious food at snack time, and fresh drinking water and fresh fruit are always readily available. Children learn about the lives of others, as they share pictures and write about their own family. They learn about different festivals, such as Chinese New Year and Christmas, as they think about communities

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

within and beyond their own experience. Children have a real sense of belonging in the club and their confidence in social situations is excellent.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY491547 Local authority Kent Inspection number 1116877 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 30 Number of children on roll 29 Name of registered person Blackboard Schooling Support And Solutions Limited

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Date of previous inspection 18 October 2017 Telephone number 01843 841222

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Blackboard Schooling Support and Solutions Ltd registered in 2015. The out-of-school provision is based in Birchington, Kent. It offers care from 7.25am to 8.55am and from 3.10pm to 5.30pm on Monday and Tuesday and from 3.10pm to 6pm on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, term time only. There are four members of staff, one of whom holds qualified teacher status.

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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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