Kids Collective @ Bowdon

Inspection of Kids Collective @ Bowdon Bowdon Church School, Grange Road, Bowdon, ALTRINCHAM WA14 3EX

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This provision meets requirements

Children enter the breakfast club happily. They are greeted by friendly, familiar staff and quickly become engaged in conversation and activities. This demonstrates that they feel secure. Staff plan experiences that help children to learn and develop. Children carefully wheel a dolls' pram around the busy room. This promotes their physical development and coordination. Children talk about and enact what they already know about caring for babies. Staff listen to children and join in with the role play, helping children to build on and extend what they know about the world.

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This provision meets requirements

Children know the daily routine. They work together to write the 'club rules' and know the high expectations for their behaviour. This helps everyone to establish a settled, purposeful atmosphere. Some children play together. Some children spend the time before school absorbed in individual play or quiet reading. Children elect the members of the club's children's council. Staff help council members to seek ideas from the group. One recent outcome was the purchase of a wider range of balls for sports and games. Children sometimes make decisions by voting. This teaches children about fairness and democracy.

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need to do better?

n Leaders and staff receive supervision that promotes their professional development and improves the provision. Leaders observe staff's interactions with children and provide feedback that helps staff to continuously improve their performance. Managers and staff say that they feel supported to develop their professional skills and knowledge. This reflects the provider's vision and ambition for everyone in the team. n The leader describes clear intentions for what children experience at the club. At breakfast time there is lively music, as children busily get ready for the day in school. After school, the music is gentler. This helps children to make a calm transition from school time to club time. It demonstrates a caring attention to detail that helps children to feel welcome and valued. n The key-person system is well developed. This particularly benefits younger children, who are settling into a new daily routine. Key persons use information

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about children's interests. When children show an interest in dinosaurs, staff plan activities about dinosaurs. In another example, staff sensitively support children to leave 'comfort toys' at home, when they are ready. n Staff use their own skills and knowledge to promote everyone's learning. For example, they introduce children to paper folding. This improves children's hand- to-eye coordination, as they practise precision folding. Children hear about the origins of the art. They learn about shape, fractions and angles while they create

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18 November 2022 three-dimensional models. n Staff, parents and carers share information that promotes children's welfare. Staff who greet children at the door find out which children require breakfast. Breakfast time is carefully supervised. Staff guide children to make healthy choices. Children learn to eat enough, but not too much. n Staff skilfully incorporate learning into play activities. Children look closely at a play-dough cutter and think about what animal shape it is. They decide it is a bird, but are not sure what sort of bird. Their ideas include 'penguin' and 'dove'. Staff playfully support the debate. The conversation promotes children's confidence in putting forward suggestions. It adds to the number of words that children know and use. n Children learn to think about and help other people. They sell cakes to raise money for BBC Children in Need. They take part in activities associated with

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World Kindness Week. Staff help children to understand, relative to their age, that some people experience disability and disadvantage. This encourages children to become compassionate and caring citizens. n Parents like the varied activities for children of all ages. They welcome the opportunities that children have to mix with children from other classes and year groups. Children comment that they like playing with their friends at the club. Parents particularly praise the staff's hard work and commitment during the COVID-19 pandemic. They say that this helped them to feel reassured that children were safe.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

Training in child protection matters is regular and effective. The provider checks that everyone knows and understands the safeguarding procedures. Staff in the club and the school work together to protect children. They share relevant information, via a secure online system. They deliver consistent messages to children. For example, children learn that 'no means no' and that speaking up about concerns is the best way to deal with them. Record keeping and organisation is excellent. The attendance register is kept constantly updated during club sessions. Staff communicate effectively with parents, and with staff in school. When children of Reception age sustain an injury at the breakfast club, staff write the details in the class message book and telephone the parents. This helps everyone to promote children's safety and welfare.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 2598632 Local authority Trafford Inspection number 10251497 Type of provision Childcare on non-domestic premises

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Registers

Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Day care type Out-of-school day care

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inspection

Total number of places 80 Number of children on roll 312 Name of registered person Kids Collective Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 07931345856 Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Information about this early years setting

Kids Collective @ Bowdon registered in 2020. The club operates within Bowdon Church School. It employs seven members of childcare staff. Of these, one holds a qualification at level 5, and two hold qualifications at level 3. The club opens from Monday to Friday, term time only. Out-of-school sessions are from 7.30am until 8.45am, and from 3pm until 6pm.

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Inspection activities

n This was the first routine inspection the club received since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The inspector discussed the impact of the pandemic with the provider and has taken that into account in their evaluation of the setting. n The club leader and the inspector completed a learning walk of the club. The leader explained the ways in which routines and activities promote children's learning and well-being. n The inspector observed activities and carried out a joint observation of one activity with the deputy club leader. She spoke with staff and children about the club. n The inspector held a leadership and management meeting with the group manager, the operations manager and the deputy club leader. n Three parents spoke with the inspector. The inspector read email feedback from parents. She took account of parents' views. n The inspector looked at relevant documents and reviewed evidence of the suitability of staff working in the club.

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We carried out this inspection 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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