All Saints Pre-school

All Saints Pre-school All Saints Church Centre, Winchester Road, Southampton, Hampshire, SO16 7DL

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 17 May 2016 9 December 2008

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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 management team uses its expert knowledge and experience highly effectively to support staff. The team identifies staff training needs to improve teaching and continually develop the high-quality provision for children and their families.  Children are exceptionally motivated and engaged in a wide variety of play experiences. Staff support and interact with children exceptionally well overall, including those who are learning English as an additional language. They encourage them to make excellent progress from their starting points.  Children are happy, confident and curious learners who behave extremely well, explore the environment eagerly and make excellent use of resources. Staff develop extremely strong relationships with the children, to fully promote their well-being.  Staff form excellent relationships with parents and other professionals involved in children's welfare and learning. This highly effective liaison and information sharing

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This provision is outstanding

contributes towards achieving exceptionally positive outcomes for all children.  Children develop an excellent awareness of healthy lifestyles through highly effective teaching and routines which are skilfully interwoven into the day.

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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

 extend opportunities for children to follow their interests without interruption, to further build on their already extremely good progress.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector toured the premises and viewed resources.  The inspector observed the children and staff at play.  The inspector examined the records and documents provided by the manager and jointly observed an activity with the manager.  The inspector discussed the setting with parents to gain their views.  The inspector discussed self-evaluation with the manager.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. Management and staff are fully aware of all the policies and procedures that help to keep children safe and secure, including the action to take if they are concerned about the welfare of a child. Staff work very successfully in partnership with parents to provide excellent consistency in children's care and learning. Staff skilfully adapt to children's changing interests and meet their individual needs extremely well as they encourage them to think and participate. Highly rigorous evaluation of the service helps the management and staff to identify aspects for improvement. For example, they successfully reorganised the book area to improve children's interest in the vast range of books available. Highly effective progress monitoring now ensures that every child receives the help and encouragement they need to make excellent progress.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff use a very wide range of resources and learning opportunities that extend children's skills exceptionally well. They continually encourage children to be creative and physically active in their play. For example, the children wanted to build a robot with large wooden blocks. Staff encouraged children to think about what was needed and to talk about the size and shape of the robot. The children solved problems and worked extremely well together to build a structure that they could climb, balance on and jump from. These extremely rich learning experiences continually stimulate children's interests and physical abilities. Overall, staff plan activities that fully engage the children and further challenge their ideas. The manager recognises that even more could be done to enable children to complete activities to their satisfaction, to extend their learning even further.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children arrive extremely confidently and settle quickly. Staff greet them and make them feel exceptionally welcome. They listen attentively to what children have to say, follow their ideas and are excellent role models. Children are extremely caring towards each other. For example, older children kindly explain to others how to use the timers to take turns in play. Children are highly involved in learning about foods that are good or bad for them. For example, they made a large caterpillar, based on a favourite story, and identified healthy and unhealthy food options as they threw pretend food into its mouth.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children demonstrate excellent communication and social skills. They listen and share ideas very well, and older children ask many questions and talk about their families, experiences and birthdays. Children make excellent use of books to inspire their imaginations and increase their factual knowledge. All children are exceptionally well prepared for the next stages in their learning.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY270555 Local authority Southampton Inspection number 826693 Type of provision Sessional provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register Age range of children 2 - 4 Total number of places 36 Number of children on roll 35 Name of registered person Lesley Anne Strange

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Date of previous inspection 9 December 2008 Telephone number 07941372571

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All Saints Pre-school opened in 2003. It operates from a church in Southampton, Hampshire. It is open Monday to Friday, from 9.30am until 12.30pm, during term time only. The provider is in receipt of funding to offer free early education to children aged two, three and four years. There are seven members of staff who work with the children. Of these, five staff hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3 and the manager holds a qualification at level 4.

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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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