Southeast Kids Camps

Southeast Kids Camps

Unique reference number (URN): 2825017 Address: St. John's C Of E Primary School, Cunningham Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN4 9EW Type: Childcare on non-domestic premises Registered with Ofsted: 09/01/2025 Registers: EYR, CCR, VCR Registered person: Southeast Martial Arts Ltd

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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 Expected standard

All children are happy, settled and confident. Staff have successfully created safe and welcoming play environments to ensure that they support children to feel safe and excited to come to the camp and happily engage in their play opportunities. Children enjoy the company of staff and are keen to seek them out to join in with their games and activities. They are excited to show each other what they are proud of and enjoy receiving and giving praise and reassurance. This is evident when children take it in turns to celebrate their skills in the camp talent show.

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Children's welfare and wellbeing Expected standard

There is an effective key-person system in place for early years children, which supports all children to feel safe and secure. Children play happily with staff and staff know children well. This helps them to plan and provide play opportunities that they know children will enjoy, such as team games such as basketball and quieter activities, such as creative play.

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Children's welfare and wellbeing Expected standard

Children have opportunities to be active and exercise and rest and participate in calmer activities. Children are provided with healthy nutritiously balanced meals. Children know the importance of following health and hygiene practices, such as completing thorough handwashing routines.

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Inclusion Expected standard

Leaders and staff have a clear understanding of how they quickly identify the needs of all individual children, including children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. This includes getting to know children when they start at the camp and getting to know what makes them unique and how they can adapt practice to meet their individual needs. This includes closely monitoring children's time at the camp. Staff make effective adaptations to support all children. For example, staff have recently reflected on the organisation of the room. As a result, they have implemented a quiet space to provide children with a place, where they feel safe and can engage in calm and quieter activities if they become overwhelmed.

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Inclusion Expected standard

Staff and leaders establish effective links with families. This includes sharing key information about children and their day, such as what they have enjoyed participating in. Staff are confident that they would know who to seek advice and support from if they ever become concerned regarding a children's development and wellbeing.

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Leadership and governance Expected standard

Leaders have a comprehensive knowledge of their roles and responsibilities and effectively implement safe and appropriate practice. This includes ensuring that all policies and documents are thorough and are shared with parents and staff. Leaders prioritise the mental health and wellbeing of staff, offering support and regular meetings. The leaders ensure that staff's workload is manageable. All staff establish positive relationships with parents and

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Needs attention

keep them informed about their children's day at the camp and what they have enjoyed doing.

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Needs attention

All staff carry out regular reading and research to help keep up to date and learn and implement new and exciting activity ideas. Staff attend training beneficial to their practice. This includes how to adapt activities to ensure that they meet the needs of children of all ages and abilities.

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Needs attention

Leaders recognise the need to develop staff's confidence in managing new challenging behaviours that have arisen in the camp and intend to take swift action to support staff to manage challenging behaviour effectively and consistently. Leaders have a highly positive attitude towards the areas to develop further and intend to ensure that staff complete behaviour management training as a priority.

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Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routines Needs attention

Staff do not confidently ensure that high behaviour expectations are consistently embedded. This is demonstrated when staff do not support children to fully understand the consequences of their actions. For example, children throwing objects, using inappropriate language and being disruptive are simply told 'no thank you'. Although unwanted behaviour is addressed by staff, high expectations are not swiftly and consistently explained and, therefore, some poor behaviour is observed as a result.

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Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routines Needs attention

Staff are skilful in promptly identifying how to support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. For example, staff engage children in smaller and/or quieter activities instead of large-group activities that they may find overwhelming.

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Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routines Needs attention

All staff establish positive relationships with children. Children seek out staff for comfort and reassurance and enjoy showing them their achievements. Children enjoy the company and playful interactions with staff. Leaders ensure that they record and monitor attendance in relation to the intended booking patterns and follow up any absences to ensure they are mindful of any potential safeguarding concerns.

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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 are happy, settled and confident in the inviting and safe camp. Children are engaged in their play opportunities. They have an active role in adding to the camp activity plans. This helps ensure that all children have a sense of ownership and enjoy their activities during their time at the camp. For example, when children talk about skateboarding, children enjoy making their own mini skateboards and having 'finger skating' races and competitions. Children's individual personalities are known well by all staff, including their abilities and what makes them unique. This helps ensure children have activities and resources that will keep them interested in their play. This includes, art and craft materials, board games and sport activities, such as tag rugby, basketball and football. All children develop skills to support their future learning. This includes building on what they already know and enjoy. Children are encouraged to be independent and meet their own

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

needs. This is demonstrated when children choose their own play and find a quieter space to rest and engage in reading activities, when they are tired from more active activities, such as gymnastics.

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

Overall, children listen to staff who try and successfully enforce the rules and boundaries. This includes recapping the camp rules daily. The majority of children behave well. For example, children help to tidy up during changes in routine, and are happy to help each other. Children play well together on the whole. However, at times, some children test the boundaries, including throwing objects, using inappropriate words and disrupting others. Although staff do intervene and stop the behaviour, they do not consistently support children to fully understand why they are being asked to stop and reinforce the expectations of behaviour. As a result, not all children behave accordingly.

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

All children get the most out of their play opportunities, which are skilfully extended or simplified by staff, so that children of all ages and abilities can participate. Staff work hard to ensure that children enjoy and engage in their play opportunities. Children have a wide range of interesting play opportunities, both indoors and outdoors. This includes large team games, such as tennis, and smaller activities such as making paper aeroplanes and going on to have flying competitions.

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Next steps

To meet the requirements of the Early years foundation stage and Childcare Register the provider must take the following action by the assigned date:

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Action Completion Date

support staff to ensure they confidently and consistently set appropriate expectations for behaviour to support children to fully understand what is expected of them 28/09/2026

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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:

St. John's C Of E Primary School Cunningham Road Tunbridge Wells TN4 9EW

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Address:

Type: Childcare on non-domestic premises

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Address:

Registered person: Southeast Martial Arts Ltd

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Address:

Operating hours: Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday : 08:00 - 16:00

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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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