Kids@Play Preschool

Kids@Play Preschool Ilford Methodist Church, Ilford Lane, Ilford, Essex, IG1 2JZ

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 17 March 2016 11 February 2013

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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 well-qualified and highly ambitious staff team provides children with an exceptional range of equipment and materials to explore and investigate, indoors and outdoors. Children are highly motivated and eager to learn.  Staff are skilled teachers who are highly responsive to children's individual learning needs. All children make rapid progress from their starting points.  Staff build exemplary partnerships with parents and other professionals, which helps to ensure great consistency in children's care and learning. Staff involve parents fully in every aspect of their children's education and give them exciting ideas for how to support their learning at home.  Staff and managers use rigorous observations, assessments and tracking of children's progress to inform their highly detailed planning. Children who may be slow to learn are swiftly identified and given highly effective support to catch up.

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This provision is outstanding

 Children acquire excellent communication and language skills. Staff are extremely skilled at helping children to understand how to use language, and they regularly introduce new vocabulary. They provide excellent support for children who are learning English as an additional language.  Children show high levels of self-control and respect for each other; their behaviour is exemplary. Staff act as excellent role models for them.

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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

 build further on the already strong opportunities for children to develop their independence and do small tasks by themselves.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector spoke to parents to gain their views of the setting.  The inspector observed children in all areas, including the four play rooms and the garden.  The inspector carried out a joint observation with the manager.  The inspector viewed documentation, including staff suitability checks and training certificates.  The inspector spoke to staff to gain their knowledge and understanding of safeguarding.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Managers use rigorous performance management systems to carry out incisive evaluations of staff practice. They identify and target any professional development needs, and all staff have excellent opportunities to complete regular training which benefits children. Safeguarding is effective. Staff are highly skilled in identifying the signs that may cause concern for a child's welfare and referring their concerns promptly. They maintain partnerships with parents exceptionally well as they actively seek, evaluate and act on their views to drive continual improvement. The staff have developed an excellent and rigorous self-evaluation programme which has successfully identified areas for improvement. For example, security in the pre-school has vastly improved.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff use precise information from assessments and their comprehensive knowledge of each child to secure timely interventions and support. This helps to ensure that all children make rapid progress. Staff provide a highly stimulating environment and a wide range of activities which help to ensure that children are exceptionally well motivated and very eager to join in. For example, children are intrigued by a mixture of jelly beads; they relish exploring and squashing them, and show delight as they pop and splatter. Staff have very high expectations for children and are exceptionally effective at extending children's individual learning. For example, they build on children's interest in the sensory tent by encouraging them to observe flickering lights and explore different textures.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Staff are highly skilled in developing children's self-esteem. For example, when a child sang in front of everyone else, staff clapped and cheered him for his achievement. Children are incredibly sociable and play alongside each other, showing care and respect for others. They use an extensive range of resources that help them learn about differences, including cooking utensils from different countries. Staff ensure that children have every opportunity to play in the excellently resourced outdoor space whatever the weather. They give high regard to the value of outdoor play and the benefits of exercise and fresh air. Children learn exceptionally well about keeping safe when they carefully use outdoor play equipment. Overall, children operate independently, but staff do not always build further on the varied opportunities for them to do tasks by themselves.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children thrive. For example, they show a sense of awe and wonder as they make an 'ocean' in a plastic bottle using water, oil, glitter and food colouring. They offer their own ideas to extend the activity by adding plastic fish to the mixture and watching it mix and separate. Children are extremely well prepared for the move to school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY447449 Local authority Redbridge Inspection number 1027884 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 40 Number of children on roll 80 Name of provider Kids@Play Preschool Partnership Date of previous inspection 11 February 2013 Telephone number 07553289241

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Setting details

Kids@Play Pre-school registered in 2012. It is based in Ilford, in the London Borough of Redbridge. The opening hours are Monday to Thursday from 9am to 3.30pm and Friday from 9am to 12 noon, during school term time only. The pre-school is in receipt of funding for free nursery education sessions for children aged two, three and four years. There are eight members of staff, seven of whom hold appropriate early years qualifications.

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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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