Fun Days Holiday Playscheme

Inspection of Fun Days Holiday Playscheme Matthews Community Hall, Margravine Road, LONDON W6 8HJ

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This provision meets requirements

Staff create a safe, welcoming and stimulating environment, where children are immersed in play. Children explore a variety of activities that reflect their interests. They move freely between areas and make independent choices. Staff join in with enthusiasm, offering encouragement and celebrating achievements. This builds warm, trusting relationships and a strong sense of belonging, which helps children feel secure, valued and motivated to take part.

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This provision meets requirements

Staff act as positive role models, set clear expectations for children's behaviour and consistently reinforce agreed boundaries. Children follow established club routines, such as tidying up. They readily help to return toys and games to their rightful places. Children show kindness and respect towards each other. As a result, they develop positive attitudes, high levels of self-esteem and confidence.

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This provision meets requirements

The club has established a strong and valued partnership with the housing estate where it operates. This relationship plays an important role in widening access to the club and ensuring opportunities are available to all children. Together, they organise activities and trips, such as visits to the beach, and provide places for children who might otherwise be unable to attend. This partnership enables more children to benefit from new experiences and being part of the club community.

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n Leaders gather information about each child's individual needs before they start at the club. Parents provide details to help staff support a smooth transition, and leaders ensure this is shared with the whole team. As a result, staff are well prepared to meet children's needs from the outset, helping them to feel settled, secure and confident when they attend. n Leaders and staff are passionate about their roles. Leaders ensure regular staff supervisions are in place and support staff's well-being. As a result, staff are motivated, confident and provide consistently high-quality care for children. The team plans a wide range of age-appropriate activities that reflect children's needs and interests. For example, children enjoy making jewellery, tracing pictures and building complex structures. They demonstrate high levels of curiosity, concentration and enjoyment in their play. n The club places a strong emphasis on promoting healthy lifestyles. Children

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spend time outdoors each day, enjoying fresh air and physical activity. Staff provide a variety of healthy snacks, which children help to prepare, and drinks are readily available throughout the day. As a result, children learn to make healthy choices about what they eat and how they stay active and take responsibility for their own good health.

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5 August 2025 n Children manage their personal needs with confidence and understand the importance of regular handwashing. Staff are deployed effectively to supervise while allowing children to move to and from the bathroom independently. As a result, children develop self-care skills, independence and a sense of responsibility for their own care needs. n Children express themselves with confidence and show strong social skills. They enjoy talking to staff, visitors and each other, and are keen to share their ideas and experiences. They speak positively about their favourite activities, outings and staff members. These positive relationships, combined with opportunities to communicate freely, develop children's confidence, strengthen their social skills and support their emotional well-being. n Staff build positive relationships with parents and share information about what their children have been doing during their time at the club. Parents comment

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that staff work hard to provide interesting places to visit and new opportunities for children to explore the world around them. Parents feel well informed and confident in the care their children receive. n Staff promote children's understanding of how to keep themselves safe when away from the club. On outings, children wear high-visibility jackets and safety wristbands showing the club's contact details. Children know what the wristbands are for and explain how these help to keep them safe. These measures are in place for every trip and form part of the club's robust supervision arrangements.

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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 EY460213 Local authority Hammersmith & Fulham Inspection number 10407301 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 35 Number of children on roll 120 Name of registered person Fun Days Holiday Playscheme Committee

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reference number

Telephone number 07725 253120 Date of previous inspection 3 January 2020

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Information about this early years setting

Fun Days Holiday Playscheme registered in 2013. It operates from one large hall and a small room upstairs within Matthews Community Hall, Hammersmith, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. The playscheme is open each weekday from 8am to 6pm during every school holiday. The club employs 16 staff, 4 of whom hold qualified teacher status. A further two staff, including the manager, hold childcare qualifications at level 6. One member of staff holds a qualification at level 7, and five staff hold other relevant qualifications up to level 3.

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Inspection activities

n The inspector and manager completed a learning walk across all areas of the club to understand how leaders and staff organise the environment. n The inspector observed the interactions between staff and the children. n The inspector spoke with staff at appropriate times during the inspection and took account of their views. n Parents shared their views of the club with the inspector. n Children spoke to the inspector about what activities they enjoy doing at 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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