S4A Group Ltd@Grendon Underwood Combined

Inspection of S4A Group Ltd@Grendon Underwood Combined Grendon Underwood Cp School, Main Street, Grendon Underwood, Aylesbury HP18 0SP

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This provision meets requirements

Staff are highly successful at ensuring the club is a safe and welcoming space for children. They have robust arrangements in place to ensure a smooth and safe transition for children between their time at school and their time at the club. Staff greet them warmly and ask about their day. Children happily share their news and confidently enter the club environment. It is evident that children are pleased to be there. Staff understand that for the club to run smoothly children need to understand the rules and expectations for behaviour. Staff are excellent role models. They are polite and helpful, modelling the behaviours they expect to see from children. Children learn well to be cooperative, and considerate of each other and their environment.

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This provision meets requirements

Staff plan and deliver activities that help children gain new skills and practise skills they are developing elsewhere. They teach a wide variety of sports skills and encourage children to be physically active. In addition, they ensure children with other interests are catered for well. For example, children can explore craft material, or choose to play with construction toys.

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n Leaders develop positive working relationships with staff at the host school and with parents. Through these partnerships, they know about children's interests, friendships and if they may need any extra support to get the most out of their time at the club. Staff then make any adaptations needed to ensure this is the case. This helps ensure an inclusive environment for all children. n Staff teach children the skills they need to be able to play different sports and enjoy doing so. Children learn how to hold a basketball in ways that helps them accurately shoot and score. Children learn how to kick footballs with accuracy as well as power. Staff's enthusiasm and clear enjoyment for helping children in these ways helps ensure not only that children have lots of fun but that they feel proud of what they learn to do. n Staff interact well with children. They enter into thoughtful conversations about what they are doing. This helps build relationships as well as encouraging

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children to solve problems and hold back-and-forth conversations. It also helps children focus and concentrate on what they do. Staff are highly effective at building strong relationships with children, which supports children's emotional well-being. n Staff encourage children to share their ideas and help plan for the club. Children are confident to ask for different resources or to make suggestions about things they would like to do. Staff show an interest in children's lives and encourage them to demonstrate skills they are learning elsewhere, such as at other sports

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12 May 2025 clubs. This all helps build children's self-esteem and their sense of themselves as clever and competent young people. n Leaders have strong oversight of the club. They visit regularly, giving staff the praise they deserve for what they do well. They are always striving to improve the experience of children further still. For example, they recognise when some staff are more confident engaging with children at some types of activities than others. This then feeds into plans for staff's own professional development. This robust and detailed approach helps maintain high standards. n Staff speak very highly of their experience of working at the club. They know there is career progression and feel very well supported to develop their skills and gain new qualifications. This helps ensure a positive working environment, which benefits staff and children alike. It also helps with staff retention, which in

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turn provides good levels of continuity for children's care.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

There is an open and positive culture around safeguarding that puts children's interests first.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY550627 Local authority Buckinghamshire Inspection number 10398574 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 38 Name of registered person S4A Group Ltd

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reference number

Telephone number 07989467850 Date of previous inspection 30 October 2019

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Information about this early years setting

S4A Group Ltd@Grendon Underwood Combined registered in 2017. The club operates from the premises of Grendon Underwood Combined School, Buckinghamshire. The club is open from 7.30am to 9am and 3.15pm to 6pm, Monday to Friday, term time. The club is also open from 8am to 5pm for some weeks of the school holidays. There are two members of staff, of whom one holds a relevant childcare qualification at level 2.

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n The inspector had a tour of the premises and found out about the types of activities staff offer children. n The inspector carried out a joint observation with a representative of the provider. n The inspector observed how staff interacted with children, and evaluated the impact of these on children's engagement. n Parents and children shared their views and the inspector took these into account. n The inspector held a meeting with a representative of the provider to find out about the leadership and management of the setting.

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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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