Pamphill Pre School Nursery

Pamphill Pre School Nursery Pamphill Green, Pamphill, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 4EE

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 25 February 2016 21 October 2010

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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 teaching is outstanding. Staff make exemplary use of extremely detailed assessments to make certain they provide challenge to all children. Children constantly have chances to engage in relevant and meaningful learning opportunities and make exceptional progress.  Staff are highly skilled and ensure that children develop secure emotional and social skills that prepare them extremely well for school. Children forge highly positive relationships, their behaviour is exemplary and they are consistently motivated to learn.  The pre-school team is highly committed to improving the setting. It works very closely with parents and children to identify ways to continually improve and sustain the excellent standards of care, teaching and learning. Leadership and management of the setting are exemplary.  Staff consistently promote children's awareness and sense of safety with meticulous planning and preparation. For instance, children learn how to use real tools

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This provision is outstanding

competently and safely. Safeguarding is a priority.  Partnerships with parents and with outside agencies are especially strong. Staff involve parents in every aspect of their children's learning and development. Staff share valuable information to help them build extremely well on what children learn elsewhere.

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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 even more opportunities for children to understand that words carry meaning.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the children during play inside and outside.  The inspector sampled a wide range of paperwork, including risk assessments, policies and procedures, children's learning journals and the self-evaluation document.  The inspector carried out a joint observation with the manager.  The inspector discussed the provision with the staff, children and spoke to parents at appropriate times during the inspection.  The inspector spoke to the committee chairperson at the start of the inspection.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. All staff have a confident and extremely secure understanding of how to protect children from harm. The manager monitors staff training extremely effectively to ensure teaching is of a consistently high quality. She successfully monitors and tracks the progress of individual and groups of children to ensure staff can swiftly close any identified gaps in learning. The highly committed staff team works effectively together and receives excellent support from the manager to improve the quality of their practice. The impact of this professional development shows in the enthusiasm and proactive attitude of the team. Up-to-date and frequent training has an extremely positive impact on outcomes for children. Recent training has enthused staff to develop more effective storytelling skills to enhance children's language development.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff provide an extensive range of learning opportunities. They are highly skilled at providing just the right amount of challenge, or standing back to encourage independent learning. For example, children competently and independently set up simple programmes on the computer. Staff provide a vast array of opportunities for children to practise their early writing skills. For example, children keenly combine the use technology by writing and making marks on an interactive white-board. They enthusiastically make lists on clipboards and write with chalk, pens and crayons in all areas of the setting. Opportunities to help children learn that words carry meaning are less extensive, however. Staff are highly responsive to children's changing interests, tailoring activities to meet children's individual needs. They focus sharply on children's communication and language development. For example, they implement recognised national strategies highly

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

successfully to enhance children's vocabulary and speech.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children develop exceptionally strong attachments with the caring and highly attentive staff. They respect others, work cooperatively, behave extremely well and are very polite. Children flourish in this encouraging and empowering environment. They have extensive opportunities to challenge their physical skills in the exceptionally well-resourced outdoor area.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children make significant progress across all areas of their learning. They are active, confident learners who thrive as they learn the key skills they need in readiness for school. They demonstrate high levels of independence and proudly care for their learning environment. For example, they are eager to volunteer and work enthusiastically together to tidy up.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 144301 Local authority Dorset Inspection number 825849 Type of provision Sessional provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 2 - 4 Total number of places 25 Number of children on roll 32 Name of provider Pamphill Pre-School Nursery Committee Date of previous inspection 21 October 2010 Telephone number 01202 883008

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Setting details

Pamphill Pre School Nursery registered in 1992 and is an integral part of Pamphill First School which is located on the outskirts of Wimborne, Dorset. The pre-school operates from the school hall and is open Monday to Friday during term time, from 8am until 8.45am as a breakfast club and from 8.45am until 11.45am as a pre-school. The pre- school provides funded early education for children aged two, three and four years. There are four members of staff, all of whom are qualified at levels 2 and 3 in childcare and education.

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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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