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 25/10/2012. 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 15/05/2012, we sent you a welfare requirements notice.

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Outcome of the visit

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 improve 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

Monitoring visits were carried out on 9, 27 July and 25 October 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 satisfactory improvement overall.

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Overall effectiveness of the improvement and outcomes for children

Overall the progress made since the last monitoring visit continues to be good. The improvements noted at the previous monitoring visit have been sustained and developed.

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Overall effectiveness of the improvement and outcomes for children

Systems are established for maintaining accurate documentation, this means that permissions from parents is in place for all children attending, risk assessments cover all areas of the nursery and the organisation of records to demonstrate how staff’s suitability has been assessed is easily accessible. There is an effective safeguarding procedure in place which is known to staff.

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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 planned for. All staff are included in the planning of activities for children to help them progress and the next steps for children's learning. Resources reflect the needs of the children attending including the provision for reading materials and resources to promote home languages. Children attending are happy and involved in the activities provided. Staff interact with the children on their level and manage children’s behaviour taking into consideration children’s age and level of understanding.

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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 satisfactory improvement. The next visit will be a full inspection.

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Next steps

I hope that you have found the visit helpful in promoting improvement in your setting. 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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