Out of School Clubs
Including breakfast clubs, after school and holiday playschemes
186 topics in this forum
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Inspection Without Eyfs
by Guest jenpercy- 7 replies
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We wre OFSTEDed twice recentlyand eventually got a satisfactory. Last year we had 10 EYFS. So far this year we have only one, who is dropped off by parents around 4 and picked up about 6 twice a week. So this prompts my questoin. How on earth would I have proved my capabilities with EYFS if that inspection had been when no EYFS were registered to us.
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Help please! We have a child about to join our after school club who is likely to soil himself at some time whilst with us. The play leader has said that changing a child does not come into a playworkers remit. This child is 5 and will need help. What do you think?
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Sef For Out Of School
by Guest jenpercy- 2 replies
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OK how do I fill in all this stuff about how the children do EYFS when we do as little as possible? I got hold of a local authority (Essex) SEF form for after schools, which was a very cutdown version, very suitable, taking into account the fact that we are different. however, when we were inspected, she was very dismissive of the fact that that that was what I had submitted and didn't refer to it once, even though we had been led to believe that the Inspectino would revolve around what we had submitted in our SEF. we got 3 throughout, and I got the definite impression that you can't get any better unless you blow your own trumpet
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Register, Snack, Planning Etc Etc
by Guest- 3 replies
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Hi all! Im preschool background and so having spent 3 nights at school club just want to know how others do things, if what i have experienced is the norm??!! Register How do you take yours? Kids wander in from classes (apart from rec, and yr 1 which are collected). Manager then does visual check. I caught kids wandering in and out to the toilets wjhilst this was happening. Noise was awful!! Surely they should all stay in room and answer reg? Makes it quicker??? Snack Was 40 kids in the same room!!! This week they have split it so yrs rec to 3 stay in have snack and reaminder outside then swap. This all happens in the club room and to get through the 40 ki…
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What To Do?
by Guest- 22 replies
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Just go!t back from my hols feeling relaxed and now back into it... Have tried to recruit deputy and lev 2 for school club over the school holidays. Got 4 applications set up interviews for all and only2 turned up. One i used to work with last year...agency was our deputy at my old preschool, left area, moved back to area, not stuck a job longer than 6 months, lev 3, first aid. Awful interview, did not know any child protetion procedures, couldnt tell us anything about EYFS...scored 7/40 on our interview scale...has worked for club before...previous committee said she was lazy! At pre-school the children loved her. Other applicant lives miles away, African wit…
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Deputy And Qualifications
by Guest- 2 replies
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Hi Struggling to get any level 3 to be depuyt. can we have a good experienced level 2 who will be willing train? Got no other level 3 except manager. Also go good candidate who has a qualification from Holland. She hasNVQ3 in Social Pedagogy . Anybody know if this is a suitable qualificatioN/ Thanks
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Staff Ratios
by Guest- 2 replies
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Hi All Does anyone know where i can find the literature that explains the adult to child ratio for after school and holiday clubs?
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Ridiculous!
by Guest- 6 replies
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Hi all Well to be honest I losing patience with OFSTED. Chair has received a letter today to say that our Manager is unsuitable as they she has not sent in a CRB form and that they have tried to contact her on numerous occassions. This has been going on for a year! Our manager has sent in 3 CRB forms (the 4th one going recorded delivery today!) and she has phoned them on occassions to chase her application/CRB up!! Do they know what they are doing over there?!! Here's to expecting an inspection any day now (4 and half years since last one!) because of this. Recruitment is not going very well....interviewed a level 3 experienced (works in pre-school) candidat…
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Suitable Qualification
by Guest- 2 replies
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Hi Had a lovely lady apply for position at school club however she is qualified teaching assistant level 2. I have checked the CWDC website and it states its not a suitable qualification (she would have to do NVQ). Seems silly to me as this is all down to wether she is suitable to work with early years when she has actually more suitable to work with the older children which make up a higher proportion of our users! So i a actually asking if that the suitability from the website is applicable to school clubs? (Got a feeling it is which is annoying as we need qualified staff) Thanks all
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We are luck enougn to be moving to a new site in the local primary school after christmas. At that time we are also going to take over the breakfast club and start an after school club. Can anyone give me any advice about what this will involve with things like policies, planning, training, SEF etc? Or even suggest some useful information available from anywhere? The other problem is that the breakfast club is currently making quite a big loss so we need to find some way to make it more successful? So any suggestions about that would also be fabtastic. Jane
