Wembley Central Nursery School

Store Street Manchester M1 2WD Telephone: 0300 123 1231 Fax: 0300 123 3159 Minicom: 0161 618 8524 Email: enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk Web: www.ofsted.gov.uk

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Saint John's Nursery School St John's Nursery School Community Hall 1 Crawford Avenue, Wembley Middlesex HA0 2HX Our Reference EY438041

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Outcome of monitoring visit for provision judged as inadequate

An Ofsted inspector, Pauline Nazarkardeh, carried out a monitoring visit of your provision on 27/07/2012. This visit follows on from your inspection where the provision was judged to be inadequate.

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Outcome of the visit

As a result of our inspection on 17/05/2012, we sent you a welfare requirements notice.

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Outcome of the visit

As a result of the inspection you were issued with ten notices to improve. These notices identify the need to improve the systems for obtaining and storing documentation for assessing the suitability of staff; for gaining necessary information from parents and for carrying out risk assessment. In addition you were asked to improved the quality of care by ensuring that staff are able to safeguard children by implementing a clear safeguarding procedure; to put in place effective systems to ensure that the individual needs of all children are met; plan and organise systems to ensure that every child receives an enjoyable and challenging learning and development experience that is tailored to meet their individual needs and that children were not disadvantaged because of their home language and also to develop partnerships with parents.

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Outcome of the visit

A monitoring visit was carried out on 27 July 2012. It was found that all of the welfare requirement notices and the notices to improve have been met.

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Outcome of the visit

Having considered all the evidence, the inspector is of the opinion that at this time the setting is making inadequate improvement overall.

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Overall effectiveness of the improvement and outcomes for children

Overall the progress made since the last monitoring visit is good. Consequently, the outcomes for children have improved and the setting is meeting the requirements for registration.

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Overall effectiveness of the improvement and outcomes for children

Systems for maintaining accurate documentation have been improvised, this means that permissions from parents is now in place for all children attending, risk assessments now cover all areas of the nursery and the organisation of records to demonstrate how staff’s suitability has been assessed is easily accessible.

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Overall effectiveness of the improvement and outcomes for children

There is an effective safeguarding procedure now in place which is known to all staff and this information is easily accessible, staff continue to develop their knowledge of this information.

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Overall effectiveness of the improvement and outcomes for children

Good progress has been made in the delivery of the curriculum, both the outdoor and indoor areas are now included in an appropriate system for planning. Staff carry out regular observations of the children and these are used to plan activities for children to help them progress and the next steps for children's learning are identified. Resources reflect the needs of the children attending including the provision for reading materials and resources to promote home languages. Observation of the children attending show that they were happy and involved in the activities provided. Staff interact with the children on their level and show that they can manage behaviour taking children’s understanding into consideration by reminding them of rules, discussing conflict or removing children from the situation.

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Overall effectiveness of the improvement and outcomes for children

A further monitoring visit is to take place to ensure the provider is able to maintain improvements.

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Next steps

Having considered all the evidence the inspector is of the opinion that at this time:

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Next steps

 The setting has made inadequate progress in addressing the points for improvement. The next visit will be a further monitoring visit.

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Next steps

If you have any further queries please contact us on the number at the top of this letter.

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Next steps

Susan Gregory HMI National Director, Inspection Delivery

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