Bright Sparks Preschool

Bright Sparks Preschool Bright Sparks Pre School, St. Marks Road, LEAMINGTON SPA, Warwickshire, CV32 6DL

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 27 April 2016 23 April 2012

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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

 Robust staff recruitment, performance and development procedures ensure the managers and staff are well qualified and highly skilled. Their teaching and care are outstanding. The managers and staff work extremely well together to promote children's health and safety and to ensure they enjoy varied, exciting and suitably challenging activities.  Exemplary relationships with parents ensure children's needs are fully understood and met. Parents' views about their children's abilities and achievements are welcomed. They regularly talk to staff about their children's progress and agree plans for their future learning. Parents appreciate the manager's and staff's suggestions regarding their children's routines, behaviour and learning at home.  The managers and staff are tireless and innovative in the way they create a most stimulating, very well equipped and safe environment for children's care and learning.

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This provision is outstanding

Children thoroughly enjoy exploring their surroundings. They choose from an excellent selection of books, toys and equipment, and imaginatively use these resources to enhance their ideas, investigations and discoveries.  Children are highly motivated learners. They are confident and keen to join in, try hard and do well, responding to the manager and staff's consistent encouragement and praise. Staff celebrate children's experiences and successes at home. They frequently discuss and review children's work with them and highlight what they have achieved.  Children behave extremely well. They readily respond to staff's requests and share, take turns and play cooperatively with other children. The managers and staff very successfully promote children's tolerance and respect. They value children's backgrounds and experiences and use interesting resources and activities to help children understand more about other people's customs, languages and lives.

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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

 review the planned changes to provide even more opportunities for children to use a wide range of information technology, and evaluate the impact on their learning.

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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 one of the managers.  The inspector held a meeting with one of the managers and spoke to staff and children during the inspection.  The inspector looked at relevant documentation, including the provider's plans for improvement and evidence of the suitability of staff working in the pre-school.  The inspector spoke to a small selection of parents during the inspection and took account of the views of other parents from their written feedback to the provider.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The managers and staff are passionate about providing a high-quality service. Their well- targeted improvements have a positive impact on children's care and learning. New resources and improved organisation of activities have enriched children's role play and enjoyment of books. The managers intend to further develop children's use of information technology. Their close relationships with schools and innovative activities help children to be ready for school. The managers promptly contact providers and agencies involved with some children. This ensures consistent approaches to promoting children's well-being and progress. Arrangements for safeguarding are effective. The managers and staff have a thorough knowledge of abuse and neglect. They attend safeguarding training, carefully monitor children's welfare and take prompt action if they have concerns about a child.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The managers and staff complete precise assessments and carefully track children's development so they know exactly how well children are progressing. They skilfully follow up children's abilities, next steps for learning and interests in their planning and teaching. The managers and staff interact extremely well with children, promoting their purposeful learning and high achievement. Their very effective use of resources, questions and explanations enhances children's skills and understanding. The managers and staff adeptly help children to make connections between their current experiences and other activities. After children help to act out a well-known story, they plant beans and depict aspects of the plot in their craft work. When children play with toy animal figures and draw pictures of snails, staff remind them of other creatures they observed during another activity.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children are nurtured and thrive. The kind, attentive managers and staff give them time, encouragement and reassurance so children soon settle and become confident. The managers and staff work conscientiously with parents and other professionals to ensure children's care, health and dietary needs are understood and met. Children readily make healthy choices about what to eat and drink during very well-organised snack times. They independently see to their personal care. Children relish being outdoors and being active. They balance, climb and move with control as they use apparatus and wheeled toys. Children show they fully understand how to safely handle and store toys, equipment and resources during activities and when they very efficiently put away toys.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children make outstanding progress in relation to their starting points. This includes children who speak English as an additional language and children who have special educational needs or disability. Children are extremely enthusiastic, confident and resourceful learners. They listen attentively and are competent, articulate speakers. Children count accurately and readily solve number problems. They imaginatively tell and act out stories and confidently recognise and use letters and sounds.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY436610 Local authority Warwickshire Inspection number 1042034 Type of provision Sessional provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register Age range of children 2 - 4 Total number of places 28 Number of children on roll 33 Name of provider Bright Sparks Pre-School (Leamington) Ltd Date of previous inspection 23 April 2012 Telephone number 07528672396

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Setting details

Bright Sparks Preschool was registered in 2011. The pre-school employs five members of childcare staff. Of these, four hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 2 or 3, including the provider, who has qualified teacher status. The pre-school opens from Monday to Thursday during school term time. Sessions are from 9.15am until 3.30pm Monday to Wednesday and from 9.15am to 1pm on Thursday. The pre-school provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.

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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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