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Behind the Inspection Rating: Club makes mess into a virtue

Encouraging children to make a mess enables a holiday club to achieve a "good" inspection rating.

Messy Monsters Holiday Club, Peterborough – Out-of-school provision – Inspected October 2013

The Messy Monsters Holiday Club lives up to its name. The club's owner Becky Dix is a strong believer in messy play and so making a mess is all part of the fun.

"Every child loves to be messy at some point, don't they? Whether it's with their food or play, so I just thought Messy Monsters and that was the vision," says Dix, who set up the club with her own money as a sideline to her term-time job as manager of Woodston Nursery. "We do a lot of messy play at my nursery and I wanted to bring that across so we have all sorts of messy play."

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