Peek a Boo Childcare

Peek a Boo Childcare 7 Collaton Road, Torquay, TQ2 7HH

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 6 April 2016 Not applicable

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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

 The provider works well with staff to evaluate the setting regularly, in order to continually make improvements to their practice and provision to benefit children. For example, they have created a cosy area at the entrance of the playroom that helps them to comfort younger and new children when they arrive.  Staff carefully consider all children's next steps and plan a stimulating variety of activities that successfully build on their current stage of development. Children are enthusiastic and motivated learners, and make good progress.  Staff encourage children to be independent. Children confidently pour their own drinks, serve their food at mealtimes, and dress themselves. This helps them to develop skills ready for moving on to school.  Staff are very good role models and use a variety of effective teaching strategies to help children learn the boundaries and staff's expectations. Children behave well.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 The provider is exploring different ways of involving parents more in their children's development, to enable parents to extend children's learning at home. However, this is not fully successful to enable them to work effectively together.  At times, staff miss opportunities to introduce mathematical language to help children learn to count and recognise numbers.

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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

 strengthen the partnerships with parents, to fully involve them more in their children's development and experiences  develop opportunities for children to learn about and use numbers and counting.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed children's play in all areas of the setting, staff's interactions with them and planned group activities.  The inspector carried out a joint observation with the provider.  The inspector took account of the views of children, their parents and staff at appropriate times throughout the inspection.  The inspector held a management meeting with the provider and deputy manager.  The inspector sampled documentation including children's learning records, staff's suitability checks, and training and qualification certificates.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

Safeguarding is effective. The provider and staff team know what to do if they have any child protection concerns, including how to refer concerns to appropriate agencies. The provider implements robust procedures to recruit new staff and monitor their suitability. Staff have a clear understanding of their role and responsibilities, in particular, to provide a safe and secure environment for children. The provider's effective input to develop staff's skills, such as regular meetings, training and enabling the sharing of good practice with other settings, helps staff to provide children with good support. For example, training has successfully developed staff's skills to manage children's behaviour. The provider effectively monitors the progress that children make and uses this information well to identify any gaps in teaching.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

Staff engage parents well to identify children's starting points when they first attend. They complete ongoing observations of children's experiences and achievements to track their progress over time. Staff know the children well and engage them in well-planned activities that challenge them during their play. All staff focus effectively on developing children's language and communication. For example, they routinely ask children questions to develop their thinking skills and introduce new words during activities, such as 'compost' and 'grater', to help children label the items they use. Staff form strong links with other settings that children attend, and routinely visit and meet with key staff, to enable consistency in promoting children's learning.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Staff conduct a home visit before children start, to help initiate positive relationships with children and their parents. They have a welcoming and supportive attitude towards children. Children are happy and settle quickly; they demonstrate friendly, secure attachments. They are considerate and helpful, and learn good social skills that help them build positive friendships. For example, children offer to help each other to remove gardening gloves, and remind others how to use a knife safely to cut their food. Staff deploy themselves well and provide children with the right balance of support and guidance, to provide reassurance as children play and explore. Staff effectively teach children about keeping safe and following healthy hygiene routines.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children enjoy the many stimulating learning opportunities, and display high confidence and self-esteem. They develop strong literacy skills in preparation for later stages of learning. For instance, in small group activities, children learn to copy letters and match them with the corresponding sounds and letter names. Children have good social skills.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY479964 Local authority Torbay Inspection number 991737 Type of provision Full-time provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register Age range of children 2 - 4 Total number of places 40 Number of children on roll 68 Name of provider Alexandra Irene Bithell Date of previous inspection Not applicable Telephone number 01803614786

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Setting details

Peek a Boo Childcare registered in 2014 and is located in Shiphay, Torquay, in Devon. The setting is open each weekday from 7.30am to 5.30pm, all year round except bank holidays and Christmas. The setting receives funding to provide free early education for children aged two, three and four years. There are nine staff employed to work with the children, seven of whom have relevant early years qualifications to at least level 2, with two staff holding a level 6 qualification.

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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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