St Newlyn East Pre School and After School Club

St Newlyn East Pre School and After School Club St. Newlyn East Primary School, Station Road, St. Newlyn East, Newquay, Cornwall, TR8 5ND

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 15 October 2015 23 June 2009

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1

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This provision is outstanding

 All children make very strong progress in relation to their starting points. This is a result of each key person carrying out extremely well-focused, concise, assessment and planning for children's individual learning needs.  Staff have highly successful partnerships with parents. They involve them in children's learning as soon as their children first start, and keep them well informed of their ongoing progress.  The manager makes very thorough use of the highly effective monitoring and tracking systems to evaluate children's overall development and progress. This enables staff to be extremely adaptable and responsive to children's needs and provide highly effective learning programmes to promote their progress.  The excellent organisation of the outdoor environments enables children to enjoy a wide range of experiences, which support their progress across all areas of learning, while their health and physical development benefit from the fresh air and energetic

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This provision is outstanding

activity.  The manager and well-established staff are highly supportive and welcoming of new recruits, ensuring that they quickly become familiar with policies and procedures so that they are confident and able to take a full role within the setting.

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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

 increase opportunities for staff to review and reflect on their own and others' practice to promote further their professional development.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector took account of the views of parents spoken to on the day.  The inspector carried out a joint observation with the manager.  The inspector observed activities in the playroom and the outdoor play areas.  The inspector held discussions with the chairperson and staff, including the manager who is also the special needs coordinator.  The inspector checked documents relating to the suitability and qualifications of staff and sampled documentation regarding planning and children's progress.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The management team has a robust understanding of all requirements. Having addressed their previous recommendation, effective planning is integral to their practice, enabling highly effective monitoring of the balance of their education programme. They ensure that all staff are extremely knowledgeable about safeguarding children's welfare. They use robust recruitment and vetting procedures to ensure staff suitability. Safeguarding is effective. The manager supports a culture of continual improvement, involving outside agencies in evaluating the quality of the provision. She encourages staff to share their knowledge from training with their colleagues at staff meetings. They make full use of this in their practice, especially their excellent use of daily routines and the outdoor environment. However, they do not always have opportunities to support each other to reflect on and enhance their very good practice.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff have excellent teaching abilities. They skilfully engage and maintain children's interests. For example, children learn about where food comes from as they become fully engrossed in the role play vegetable shop, equipped with real fruits and vegetables. Children label and price the goods with help from the staff, who challenge older children to identify and name different coins. Children develop balance and strength as they skilfully negotiate obstacle courses and climb in the outdoor play areas. Staff ably encourage learning about the world. They effectively question children about their observations during water play.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Staff plan daily routines extremely well. For example, at snack time they encourage even the youngest children to collect their crockery and cutlery, pour out their drinks, safely use knives to slice their fruit and spread butter on crackers. Children develop excellent independence skills and grow in confidence. Staff skilfully encourage children's communication skills as they talk about the benefits of different foods. Children develop exceptionally positive relationships with familiar staff. There is a highly effective key- person system and children feel safe. Strong links with schools and other providers mean they support continuity of learning extremely well. Staff are positive role models. Children treat each other with respect and behave very well.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

All children make significant progress. They learn to recognise their names and begin to recognise a variety of letters and numbers. Older children listen to instructions from adults and dress themselves for outdoor play. These skills prepare them well for future learning and moving on to school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY317196 Local authority Cornwall Inspection number 827273 Type of provision Full-time provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Age range of children 2 - 4 Total number of places 20 Number of children on roll 43 Name of provider St Newlyn East Pre School and After School Club Date of previous inspection 23 June 2009 Telephone number 01872 510755

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Setting details

St Newlyn East Pre-School is a committee run group that registered in 2005. It operates from its own building in the school grounds. It is open on Monday to Friday from 8am until 5.30pm.The pre-school provides funded nursery education for children aged two, three and four years. The setting employs seven staff; of these, one holds Early Years Professional Status, one has a qualification in early years at level 4, three hold qualifications at level 3, one has a qualification at level 2, and the apprentice is unqualified.

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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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