Wilstead Pre-School

Wilstead Pre School Playgroup Wilstead Lower School, Cotton End Road, Wilstead, Bedford, MK45 3BX

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 16 June 2015 16 October 2008

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Previous inspection: Outstanding 1 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

 The well-qualified, experienced staff plan a superb range of rich and exciting activities that engage children and stimulate their enthusiasm for learning. Consequently, children are highly motivated as they investigate, explore and lead their own learning. This leads to positive attitudes towards learning and is an excellent preparation for school.  Children at the pre-school make excellent progress in their learning and development, because of the high-quality adult support. Staff skilfully use excellent teaching techniques, such as open-ended questioning, modelling language, recalling and making links with previous learning.  There is a highly effective key-person system in place. Key persons know their children extremely well, and demonstrate genuine care and concern for each child and their family. Key persons skilfully and promptly put in place the support and experiences that children need, so that their care and learning needs are met. As a result, children thrive

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This provision is outstanding

in this nurturing and stimulating environment.  The large outdoor area is a particular strength of the setting and provides children with opportunities to climb and balance, to grow plants and flowers, to dig in the mud kitchen and to role play as bears on a bear-hunt. This means that children have access to an exceptionally broad and balanced curriculum, outdoors as well as indoors.  Staff receive regular safeguarding training. They demonstrate a very secure understanding of the procedures to follow in the event of a concern with regard to a child's welfare. This, together with rigorous safety and hygiene procedures, means that children's health and safety are exceptionally well promoted at all times.

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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

 extend the use of monitoring data to provide information on the progress of specific groupings and cohorts of children, so that managers have an even more precise overview of patterns of children's development over time.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed activities in the indoor and outdoor areas.  The inspector spoke to members of the staff and children, at appropriate times during the inspection and held a meeting with the manager, the deputy manager and the Chairperson of the management committee.  The inspector carried out a joint observation with the manager.  The inspector took account of the views of the parents spoken to on the day of the inspection.  The inspector looked at children's records, planning documentation, evidence of the suitability of staff working in the provision and a range of other documentation, including policies and procedures to safeguard children's welfare.  The inspector reviewed the manager's evidence of self-evaluation.

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who attend. This is outstanding

Staff are extremely well organised. They meet daily to discuss their plans for the session and to share relevant information. This means that all staff are fully informed about any issue that may have an impact on the children's learning and care, and all children receive a highly consistent approach. Children's emerging literacy skills are very well supported. The environment is print rich and there are a wealth of activities that promote the beginnings of literacy. Staff carry out insightful observations of children's learning and maintain extensive records of their achievements. They use this information to make extremely accurate and precise assessments of children's stages of development. Next steps in learning are clearly identified to ensure that learning opportunities are never missed. Planning truly reflects children's interests, both within the setting and at home, as parents are given every opportunity to share what they know about their child.

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who attend. This is outstanding

Consequently, all children, including those with special educational need and/or disabilities make rapid progress.

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outstanding

Children's behaviour is exemplary. They form very good relationships with staff and one another. This means that the atmosphere is calm and supportive for all children. There are superb displays of children's work in every area, celebrating achievement and recapping on the learning that has taken place. Partnership working with parents and other professionals are exceptional. All aspects of information sharing are excellent. In particular, staff effectively engage parents to contribute information about children's learning at home, so that they can support children to make the best possible progress. There are excellent procedures in place to prepare children for their move on to school, including planned activities and visits. These effective arrangements promote children's well-being and sense of security as they make the move on to their next setting.

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provision is outstanding

The pre-school is led by an inspirational manager and deputy manager, who work tirelessly in the drive for ongoing development and improvement. They are ably supported by a hardworking management committee, and by a highly skilled and dedicated staff team. The manager carries out extensive self-evaluation and quality assurance, which includes feedback from staff, parents and children. There are excellent monitoring systems in place for planning and assessment, which ensures that staff are extremely knowledgeable about the children's current levels of development, and can meet the changing needs of individual children effectively and promptly. There is scope to extend this system to include, the analysis of attainment data for specific groupings and cohorts of children. There are extremely effective practices in place to provide induction, supervision and training for all staff. This results in a highly motivated, highly professional

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provision is outstanding

staff who are capable of delivering a consistently high level of teaching and care to the children at this outstanding pre-school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY374254 Local authority Bedford Borough Inspection number 849743 Type of provision Full-time provision Registration category Childcare - Non-Domestic Age range of children 2 - 5 Total number of places 40 Number of children on roll 56 Name of provider Wilstead Pre School Playgroup Committee Date of previous inspection 16 October 2008 Telephone number 01234 742546

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Setting details

Wilstead Pre School opened in 1968. The nursery employs nine members of childcare staff. Of these, seven hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3 and two hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 4. The pre-school opens from 8am until 6pm, Monday to Friday, term time only. It also offers holiday care, with sessions running from 8am until 6pm during some weeks of the school holidays. The pre-school provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children. It supports a number of children with special educational needs and/or disabilities.

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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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