Elm Cottage Out of School at Didsbury Road

Elm Cottage, Didsbury Road Primary Didsbury Road Primary School, Didsbury Road, Stockport, Cheshire, SK4 3HB

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 2 April 2015 22 June 2009

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Previous inspection: Good 2 How well the early years provision meets the needs of the range of children who attend Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

The contribution of the early years provision to the well-being of children Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

The effectiveness of the leadership and management of the early years provision Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

The setting meets legal requirements for early years settings

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This provision is outstanding

 Leadership and management have an excellent understanding of the Early Years Foundation Stage and children's progress is rigorously monitored and assessed. Children's needs are extremely well met and they are well prepared for school.  Staff consistently demonstrate high quality teaching skills and provide a rich, varied, challenging and imaginative range of play and learning opportunities. As a result, children are highly motivated and eager to explore and learn.  Exceptional partnership work with the school ensures a consistent, collaborative approach to supporting all children's learning and development needs. This includes children who speak English as an additional language and children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. As a result, children are extremely well supported and make very rapid progress from their starting points.  Highly effective partnerships between parents and staff ensures parents are extremely

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This provision is outstanding

well informed about their child's progress.  High expectations and effective collaborative working between staff, children and the school results in children having a clear understanding of routines and boundaries. Children's behaviour is exemplary.  Staff demonstrate a thorough understanding of how to keep children safe in line with their robust safeguarding policy. Children's welfare is extremely well protected. Additionally, children are kept safe and are supported by highly skilled staff to manage risk.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

To further improve the quality of the early years provision the provider should:

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

 provide more opportunities for mark making outdoors to further enhance the already extensive range provided indoors for children.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of teaching and the impact this has on children's learning, both inside and out.  The inspector completed a joint observation with the club manager.  The inspector spoke to school staff, and a small selection of parents and children during the inspection, and took account of their views.  The inspector looked at children's records, planning documentation, evidence of suitability of staff working in the provision and a range of other documentation, including policies and procedures.

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who attend. This is outstanding

Staff are deployed effectively to enthuse and engage children in high-quality, stimulating and challenging activities. Although, access to mark making activities are not consistently available outside. Children are extremely confident and highly motivated. Staff use highly effective teaching skills to engage and support children who speak English as an additional language. For example, in an exciting cake decorating activity, children develop their communication and language skills when staff skilfully repeat words, ask open questions and allow time for them to respond. When staff challenge children to work out how many cakes they will need, children are effectively supported to work out how many children there are and how many cakes they will need if they have two each. Children are developing their understanding of mathematical language extremely well. For example, staff are highly skilled in motivating children to persevere in a challenging basketball

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who attend. This is outstanding

game, when they are not able to get the ball into the target area. Staff continuously praise, ask open questions and extend learning by using mathematical language, such as 'How high can you throw the big ball?' Children persevere and are enthused, excited and continue engaging in challenging play opportunities.

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outstanding

Children have exceptionally strong, positive relationships with all staff. There is a significantly effective key-person system for the youngest children, which supports their emotional well-being extremely well. New children settle quickly as staff support them through highly effective partnerships with parents and school staff. Children are developing physical skills exceedingly well as they explore the adventure playground and take part in a wide range of physical activities provided by staff. Children's understanding of keeping healthy is promoted fully by staff who provide an excellent range of healthy snacks, which children help themselves to throughout the session. Children's independence skills are developing extremely well.

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provision is outstanding

Leadership and management is visionary and inspirational. For example, leaders have developed highly effective systems to monitor staff closely and provide regular opportunities for supervision, reflection and sharing of innovative practice. There is a strong ethos of continuous improvement across the setting. Staff hold relevant qualifications and are extremely well supported with their continuous professional development. This leads to consistency of high-quality teaching practice across the setting supporting children to be highly motivated and confident learners. There is a range of highly effective, robust policies and procedures to support children's good health, safety and well-being. Exemplary, effective partnership work with the school ensures staff are fully involved in relevant meetings where plans are made to keep the most vulnerable children safe. As a result, children are safeguarded extremely well and their welfare is

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Setting details

Unique reference number 501470 Local authority Stockport Inspection number 869135 Type of provision Out of school provision Registration category Childcare - Non-Domestic Age range of children 0 - 17 Total number of places 65 Number of children on roll 65 Name of provider Elm Cottage Limited Date of previous inspection 22 June 2009 Telephone number 0161 442 9946 and 07748 075 030

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Setting details

Elm Cottage, Didsbury Road Primary was registered in 1991 and is part of the Elm Cottage group of childcare provision. The out-of-school club is housed within Didsbury Road Primary School's building located in the Heaton Mersey area of Stockport. It operates every day during school term-time from 7.45am until 9am and from 3pm until 5.45pm. There is a full day holiday club during most school holidays. Of the seven staff who work at the club, six hold relevant qualifications equivalent to level 2 and 3.

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Setting details

This inspection was carried out by Ofsted 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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Setting details

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Setting details

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Setting details

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