Our Lady and St Edward's Pre School

Our Lady and St Edward's Pre School Our Lady & St. Edwards School, 495 Price Street, Birkenhead, Merseyside, CH41 8DU

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 6 May 2016 28 June 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

 Highly committed management and staff all contribute to the goal of maintaining excellence. They have continued to improve and build on their previous outstanding performance.  Children form particularly secure attachments with their key person. Staff are calm and sensitive, have high expectations and are exceptionally positive role models. Children's behaviour is very good.  Children who have special educational needs and those who speak English as an additional language are given superb support. Programmes of support, including those from external agencies, are implemented swiftly. The use of additional funding is exceptionally well targeted, further accelerating children's progress.  The well-qualified staff demonstrate consistently strong teaching skills. They have high expectations of what each child can achieve. Children make rapid progress in all areas of learning from their starting points.

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This provision is outstanding

 Planning of challenging and exciting activities is supported by the use of excellent resources, both indoors and outdoors. This helps to encourage children to make independent choices in their learning and have every opportunity to progress with their learning. Staff place high priority on promoting children's personal, social and emotional skills and physical development.  Partnership working with parents and with other professionals is exceptional. Staff provide innovative resources for parents to extend children's learning at home. Regular information sharing helps ensure that parents are entirely involved in their children's learning. Parents are highly complimentary about the pre-school.

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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

 continue to review the impact of changes and improvements made to the provision.

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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 pre-school manager.  The inspector held meetings with the pre-school managers and nominated person. She looked at relevant documentation, such as the pre-school's self-evaluation 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 their views.  The inspector spoke to staff and children throughout the inspection at appropriate times.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. All staff have an excellent understanding of safeguarding issues and prioritise children's welfare. Comprehensive procedures are in place for staff to follow should they have any concerns about a child. Staff encourage parental participation at all levels and times. This means all parents have a thorough knowledge and understanding of their children's learning and development. The nursery managers demonstrate very high expectations of the staff team. They provide highly effective systems of support and performance management based on incisive monitoring of staff practice. Managers place a high importance on continuous professional development to strengthen the practice of the staff team. This helps to ensure staff continue to enhance children's learning and welfare. The manager has an excellent understanding of the need for reflection on the provision and intends to continue to review

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

practice, in order to maintain high standards. Staff, parents and partners are involved to help improve outcomes for every child.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Highly effective systems of observation and planning are implemented with excellent results. Children's natural curiosity and exploratory instincts are very well fostered. Their learning environment supplies them with a wealth of challenge. Children gain an understanding of the world around them, and develop skills in readiness for school, through real-life experiences and wonderful play opportunities. For example, children grow seeds in the outdoor area. Their early mathematical skills are promoted strongly as they learn about time through daily watering of their own plants and measuring the growth of the seedlings. Children's creative thinking is supported very well indeed. They take great delight in designing and decorating their own model houses using recycled materials. Staff promote the development of communication and language skills through purposeful questioning and ongoing commentary to introduce new vocabulary.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Staff and other professionals have an excellent understanding of children's needs and interests. They frequently celebrate children's achievements at the pre-school and at home. Staff provide plentiful praise and encouragement. This helps children to feel extremely safe and secure in the nursery. Children relish regular opportunities to take part in indoor sports activities and to climb, balance and run outdoors. This helps to promote the development of children's physical skills extremely well. Children's understanding of healthy lifestyles is firmly established through everyday routines. Children are learning about each others' similarities and differences in the highly inclusive environment of the pre-school.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

All children make rapid progress in relation to their starting points. Children are very happy and motivated learners who involve themselves enthusiastically in the varied activities on offer. They grow in confidence, make firm friendships and become increasingly independent. Children are extremely well prepared for their move to school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 306443 Local authority Wirral Inspection number 855124 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 32 Number of children on roll 69 Name of provider Our Lady and St Edward's Pre School Date of previous inspection 28 June 2010 Telephone number 0151 652 3366

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Setting details

Our Lady and St Edward's Pre-school was registered in 2000. The pre-school employs six members of childcare staff. Of these, three hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3, one at level 5 and the others at levels 1 and 2. The pre-school opens from Monday to Friday all year round. Sessions are from 7.45am until 3.40pm. 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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