Progressive Sports

Progressive Sports

Unique reference number (URN): 2792066 Address: Gorton Mount Primary School, Mount Road, Manchester, M18 7GR Type: Childcare on non-domestic premises Registered with Ofsted: 09/08/2024 Registers: EYR, CCR, VCR Registered person: Progressive Sports South Manchester Partnership

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Safeguarding standards met

The safeguarding standards are met. This means that leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfil their specific responsibilities and have established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon and managed. As a result, children are made safer and feel safe.

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How we evaluate safeguarding

When we inspect settings for safeguarding, they can have the following outcomes:

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How we evaluate safeguarding

Met: The setting has an open and positive culture of safeguarding. Not met: The setting has not created an open and positive culture of safeguarding. Not all legal requirements are met.

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Children's welfare and wellbeing Strong standard

Leaders and staff prioritise children's welfare and wellbeing at the club. They successfully provide calm, attentive care and respond quickly to children's emotional and physical needs. Children benefit from secure relationships with staff, who offer reassurance, encouragement and support throughout the day. Leaders and staff place positive focus on supporting children to learn about leading healthy lifestyles. This is evident when they plan a range of activities to help children to understand about nutrition and the importance of low sugar in their diet. Children benefit from extremely healthy snacks and lunches to ensure their energy levels sustain throughout the day. Furthermore, children are fully encouraged to be active throughout the day. This is apparent as they play a range of team games and sports that helps to develop their physical skills and coordination.

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Children's welfare and wellbeing Strong standard

Leaders and staff work closely with external agencies to help children learn about their personal safety. For instance, they organise talks for older children about the risks and danger of knife crime and arrange oral health practitioners to talk about developing healthy oral health routines. Children display positive levels of independence at the club. They enjoy making choices about their play, support with tidying up and manage their personal care very well.

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Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routines Expected standard

Children demonstrate desirable behaviour and show a clear understanding of the club's high expectations and routines. They engage with excitement and enthusiasm in a broad range of activities, creating a calm and harmonious atmosphere. Children are polite, respectful and considerate of others. They listen to each other, wait patiently for their turn and express their ideas and intentions with growing confidence. Overall, staff are positive role models that engage children in discussions about their favourite sports, activities and plans for the holidays. They are encouraging and attentive to quieter children that need a little more encouragement to express themselves in a group.

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Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routines Expected standard

Children show clear understanding of the routine and structure of the day. They respond very well to the timetable that builds in time to be active, alongside some downtime to relax as well. The holiday club promotes children's punctuality and positive attendance. There are procedures in place to follow up with families if children do not attend when expected. This helps to keep children safe.

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Inclusion Expected standard

Leaders and staff create a welcoming and supportive environment and strive to meet all children's individual needs. They are proactive in trying to gather key information when children join to best support their individual requirements. They then use this information to make adjustments and make every effort to include all children. Leaders and staff make thoughtful adaptions throughout the day. They use different strategies, such as considering the length of different activities and the group size. Staff also ensure children have lots of choices to best support them to be able to participate based on their interests and abilities.

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Inclusion Expected standard

Leaders and staff generally display a caring approach to help children understand about their uniqueness and differences. They recognise the children that attend are from a range of different backgrounds. Staff have frequent discussions with children about celebrating each other's similarities and differences. This helps to foster children's awareness of respect and diversity. Leaders use government funding in a highly effective way. They invest in high- quality equipment and resources to make the day varied and to capture children's interests. In addition, leaders use funding superbly to invest in healthy and nutritious meals and snacks. This successfully improves children's health, wellbeing and daily experiences during their holidays from school.

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Leadership and governance Expected standard

Leaders and staff are committed to providing high-quality care that makes a difference for all children. Leaders make sound evaluations of the strengths and areas for development of the club. They are always looking at ways to make improvements and have a proactive and ambitious style of leadership. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and those that may face other barriers to their wellbeing are supported extremely well. Leaders and staff seek information from parents and carers and also children's schools to best support their needs.

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Leadership and governance Expected standard

Leaders prioritise staff wellbeing and professional development. Staff participate in a thorough induction that covers a wealth of training to help them succeed in their roles. They also have regular meetings and daily briefings to promote their personal effectiveness and help the club to run smoothly. Although there is focus on staff training, leaders do not have fully effective arrangements in place to measure the impact of this training. This means, on occasions, some staff lack a depth of knowledge around some policies at the setting. Children state that they love attending and enjoy the interesting and varied activities. They also speak highly of the staff and say they are kind and make the day fun.

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Compulsory Childcare Register requirements

This setting has met the requirements of the compulsory part of the Childcare Register.

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Register

When we check if settings meet the Compulsory Childcare Register requirements, they can have the following outcomes:

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Voluntary Childcare Register requirements

This setting has met the requirements of the voluntary part of Childcare Register.

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Register

When we check if settings meet the Voluntary Childcare Register requirements, they can have the following outcomes:

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What it's like to be a child at this setting

Children show that they feel extremely happy and safe at the club. They enthusiastically participate in a wide array of fun and exciting activities. This is evident when children play mini-golf, which supports their concentration and hand-eye coordination. Children also show positive engagement as they join in with archery, which fosters their attention skills and spatial awareness skills. Children receive support to develop their turn-taking skills, strength and stamina as they participate in rubber axe-throwing experiences. Furthermore, they have lots of fun and work collaboratively as they play football rounders and do other target sports

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About this setting

Unique reference number (URN): 2792066 with beanbags and hoops. Consequently, children develop a wealth of new skills, strengthen their listening skills and build on their physical development throughout the day. Staff plan different opportunities to focus on active play, discovery, wellbeing and arts and crafts during the day. They offer a range of resources and activities, such as board games, colouring, books and table football. This ensures there is a positive balance between children being active and having time to relax.

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About this setting

Leaders and staff place huge focus on helping children learn about healthy lifestyles. This is apparent as children join in with fun quizzes. These test children's knowledge about different fruits and vegetables and supports them to consider how much sugar is in different drinks. Children also show excellent focus as they make fruit and vegetable kebabs. They discuss how the different foods taste and the nutritional value. Children show positive behaviour throughout the day. They respond extremely well to the rules and expectations of the club. Children frequently wait for their turn and play cooperatively. They also help each other and offer encouragement to each other during team sports. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and those that may face other barriers to their wellbeing receive attentive and tailored support. The club is highly inclusive and positively promotes

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About this setting

better outcomes for all children that attend.

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Next steps

Leaders should review arrangements to more precisely reflect on and monitor the impact of staff training.

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About this inspection

The inspector spoke with leaders, staff and children during the inspection.

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About this inspection

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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Address:

Gorton Mount Primary School Mount Road Manchester M18 7GR

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Address:

Type: Childcare on non-domestic premises

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Address:

Registered person: Progressive Sports South Manchester Partnership

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Address:

Operating hours: Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday : 09:30 - 15:00

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Facts and figures used on inspection

This data was available to the inspector at the time of the inspection.

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Exceptional

Practice is exceptional: of the highest standard nationally. Other settings can learn from it.

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Strong standard

The setting reaches a strong standard. Leaders are working above the standard expected of them.

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Expected standard

The setting is fulfilling the expected standard of education and/or care. This means they are following the standard set out in statutory and non ‑ statutory legislation and the professional standards expected of them.

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Needs attention

The expected standards are not met but leaders are likely able to make the necessary improvements.

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Urgent improvement

The setting needs to make urgent improvements to provide the expected standard of education and/or care.

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Urgent improvement

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Urgent improvement

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Urgent improvement

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