Town & Country Kiddies

Town & Country Kiddies 8 Kilnwell Road, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, LN8 3BJ

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 9 March 2016 24 August 2009

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This inspection: Good 2

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Good 2

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This inspection: Good 2

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 2

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This inspection: Good 2

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 2

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This provision is good

 Teaching is consistently good with elements of outstanding practice. The qualified staff interact well with the children and are responsive to their ideas. They show a good understanding of how children learn. Children enjoy a wide range of different experiences that fully engage them. Staff support them skilfully as they experiment and investigate.  Staff have excellent partnerships with parents. They fully involve them in their children's learning and development. This includes providing interesting resources for parents to use with their children at home to extend their learning.  The environment is highly stimulating and inspiring, both indoors and outdoors. Children are motivated, eager to explore and develop a thirst for knowledge and learning.  The staff work well together. Together with the management team they demonstrate a strong commitment to maintaining a high-quality provision. Highly effective self-

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This provision is good

evaluation means they are continually building on the service they provide for children and their families.  Children behave extremely well and are very polite. Staff are positive role models. They constantly praise and celebrate children's achievements.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 Some staff are not as skilled as others at providing the optimum level of challenge to help all children achieve at the highest level.  Staff do not provide enough opportunities to build upon children's sense of responsibility and independence.

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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

 encourage all staff to have the highest expectations about what children can achieve and provide more challenge to enable every child to reach their full potential  provide children with more opportunities to take responsibility for age-appropriate tasks and build their independence.

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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 nursery pre-school manager.  The inspector held a meeting with the nursery pre-school manager. She looked at relevant documentation, such as the nursery pre-school's self-evaluation and evidence of the suitability of staff working in the nursery pre-school.  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 good

Arrangements for safeguarding are effective. Staff are confident about how to keep children safe from harm, and are knowledgeable about the procedures to follow if they have any concerns about a child's welfare. The manager offers staff regular opportunities to discuss individual children and more formal, scheduled meetings to identify professional development needs. The manager checks the progress made by different groups of children attending the nursery pre-school. She uses informative data well in order to identify gaps in children's learning and implement effective strategies, to ensure all children make at least good progress. Parents go out of their way to speak highly of the exceptional care provided. They are full of praise for the nursery pre-school and the progress their children are making.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

Good quality observations and accurate assessments are used to plan for children's next steps in learning. Staff have introduced a programme to skilfully encourage children to listen to and identify different letters and sounds which incorporates developing their physical skills. Staff help children to notice words that rhyme. Children enthusiastically invent words that rhyme with their own name. This contributes to children's very rapid progress in literacy. Staff actively promote children's understanding of people who have different beliefs to their own and come from different backgrounds. Children point to a wall display and recall practising carrying cups of water on their heads like the people in the pictures. Staff promote children's mathematical skills. Children compare the levels of water in bottle skittles. They recognise the numbers on the bottles and count the number of skittles they bowl over.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Staff build strong bonds and secure emotional attachments with children. This helps to promote children's well-being and self-confidence. Children have plenty of opportunities for fresh air and physical exercise. Outdoor learning is particularly well promoted. Children enjoy being outside and excitedly mix potions in a large cauldron. They explore and investigate using magnifiers and play imaginatively in the fairy den. Children make independent choices about where to play and what to play with, and show very good levels of interest and concentration. Staff place high emphasis on emotionally preparing children for their move to school. Children visit the feeder school with their key person every week from Easter.

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Outcomes for children are good

All children, including those who receive funded education, make at least good progress from their starting points and some make excellent progress. Additional funding is used well to improve outcomes for individual children. Disabled children and those with special educational needs receive good support from staff, so that they make significant progress in their learning. Children are emotionally prepared and develop the essential skills needed for the move on to school. Children are confident and keen to learn. They demonstrate particularly good concentration skills at group times.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY268945 Local authority Lincolnshire Inspection number 848528 Type of provision Full-time provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 3 - 4 Total number of places 51 Number of children on roll 39 Name of provider Town & Country Kiddies Date of previous inspection 24 August 2009 Telephone number 01673 844014

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Setting details

Town and Country Kiddies was registered in 2003. The nursery pre-school employs four members of childcare staff. Of these, one is qualified at level 4 and two at level 3. The manager has an early years degree. The nursery pre-school opens from Monday to Friday all year round. Sessions are from 9am until 3pm. The nursery 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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