Bagworth Pre-School Ltd

Bagworth Pre-School Ltd Bagworth Community Centre, Station Road, Bagworth, Leicestershire, LE67 1BH

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 10 February 2016 15 September 2011

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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

 The key-person system is highly successful in engaging all parents. They are warmly welcomed into the pre-school. Information is continually shared to encourage and support children's learning at home. This partnership contributes greatly to children's achievements and progress.  The quality of teaching is of a consistently high standard. Managers and staff have an excellent understanding of how children learn. They use extremely effective strategies and techniques to capture and ignite children's interest in learning.  Staff know and support children exceptionally well and they form close bonds. They are highly skilled and sensitive in helping children to settle and feel confident. Staff give children time, strategies and emotional support to help them manage their own feelings and behaviour.  The arrangements for monitoring children's progress are highly effective. Staff take prompt and effective action to help children who require additional support. This

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This provision is outstanding

ensures that all children make the best possible progress.  Staff frequently and precisely observe what children can do. They accurately assess children's individual abilities. They meticulously plan an excellent range of interesting activities. Children are motivated and enthusiastic participants, who thoroughly enjoy themselves at pre-school.  The very experienced and established staff work exceptionally well together as a team. They demonstrate a strong commitment to maintaining a high-quality provision. Robust self-evaluation means they are continually building on the service they provide for children and their families.

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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

 explore new and innovative ways for children to learn about technology and how things work.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of teaching during activities indoors and outdoors and assessed the impact this has on children's learning.  The inspector completed a joint observation with the pre-school manager.  The inspector held a meeting with the manager. She looked at relevant documentation, such as the pre-school's self-evaluation and evidence of the suitability of staff.  The inspector spoke to a small selection of parents during the inspection and took account of their views.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. The manager and staff have an extremely high regard for children's safety and well-being. They are highly confident with and thoroughly understand child protection issues and procedures. The manager works alongside staff and regularly meets with them to coach and monitor their practice. Together, they seek out focused training opportunities to further enhance their knowledge and expertise. Managers and staff actively initiate shared practice with other professionals, in order to build on and maintain teaching at the very highest level. The manager carefully monitors children's learning and development, and the educational programme. Staff have recently identified the potential to offer children more innovative ways to investigate technology and consider how things work. Partnerships with other professionals are extremely well established and highly effective in supporting children and their families.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff have high expectations of all children. They provide timely support and intervention to enable all children to achieve. Staff play alongside children, offering superb levels of interaction. They place a high priority on supporting children's communication and language. They continually introduce new words during activities and everyday routines. Staff skilfully tailor the complexity of language to ensure the right level of challenge for individual children. All staff speak clearly and allow children time to respond. Sign language and visual aids are used extremely effectively to help children communicate and understand. Staff consistently promote children's mathematical skills. Children compare the lengths of strands of spaghetti during an activity. They talk about patterns they see in the environment and count the number of eyes on their play dough alien.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Staff make the absolute best use of the available space. The indoor and outdoor environments are extremely well resourced. Children arrive excited and eager to explore. They make independent choices and show high levels of interest and concentration. Staff are extremely positive role models. They constantly praise and celebrate children's achievements. Children are very well supported in learning to share and be kind to one another. Healthy lifestyles are promoted extremely well. Children are actively involved in the planning and preparation of nutritious snacks. They learn to use knives safely as they cut up fruit and talk about healthy food choices. Children benefit from outdoor play on a daily basis. They make full use of the available space, resources and equipment.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Highly effective monitoring systems and meticulous planning help all children, including disabled children and those with special educational needs, to make excellent progress relative to their starting points. Staff are fully committed to helping children to be emotionally prepared and develop the essential skills needed for the move on to school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY419745 Local authority Leicestershire Inspection number 850095 Type of provision Sessional provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register Age range of children 2 - 5 Total number of places 26 Number of children on roll 38 Name of provider Bagworth Pre-School Ltd Date of previous inspection 15 September 2011 Telephone number 01530 230628

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Setting details

Bagworth Pre-School Ltd was registered in 2010. The pre-school employs five members of childcare staff, all of whom hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3. The pre- school opens from Monday to Friday during term time only. Sessions are from 9am until 12 noon. The pre-school provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year- old children. It supports disabled children and those with special educational needs.

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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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