Greystones Preschool

Greystones Preschool Ravenswood Crescent, West Wickham, Kent, BR4 0JH

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 22 June 2016 29 April 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

 Staff have high expectations of the children and they plan highly successful activities to meet their individual needs. Children make outstanding progress in their development and learning.  Staff support children's behaviour exceptionally well. They teach children how to respect each other and the views of others. Children behave exceptionally well.  Staff have excellent partnership working with other professionals. For example, they regularly share children's stages of learning and exchange developmental reports with childminders that care for the children.  The provider is highly proactive in reflecting on the practice in the pre-school. Staff successfully gather the views of parents and children. They use the information with great success to help shape the service they offer, such as reviewing and improving outside play opportunities for children.  Children have an excellent bond with the staff and this helps them to build an

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This provision is outstanding

exceptionally high level of emotional well-being. Staff support children's personal and social development highly effectively.

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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 already excellent activities on offer to support children's understanding of information technology even further.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed children in the main hall and garden.  The inspector spoke with the provider and staff at appropriate times during the inspection.  The inspector gathered the views of parents.  The inspector sampled documents, including safeguarding and children's files.  The inspector completed a joint observation with the provider.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The provider and staff have an excellent understanding of child protection. They fully understand what steps they would take to safeguard children. They carry out highly detailed risk assessments, helping children to play in a safe and secure learning environment. The provider regularly shares her excellent knowledge with her staff and rigorously monitors their practice. For example, regular appraisals promptly highlight any training needs. Staff have excellent opportunities for professional development. Recent training has included tracking of children's progress. This helps staff to swiftly identify any emerging gaps in learning and provide expert support, where necessary. The provider strives to continually improve the excellent outcomes for children and monitors all aspects of their learning extremely well.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff have an excellent understanding of children's interests and the next steps in their learning. They complete highly detailed assessments and tracking on all children, enabling them to tailor extremely stimulating activities to each child's individual needs. Planning is meticulous and highly effective. Planned activities encompass many areas of learning, motivating children to learn. For example, during the inspection, children were learning about owls. Staff encouraged children's language, creativity, physical skills, and understanding of the natural world. Children sang songs about owls, and then made their own owls. They learned how to make holes in the paper to attach the owl's wings and talked about why birds need feathers. Children choose from a vibrant range of resources to support their learning extremely well. The provider is working to provide even more opportunities for children to use information and communication technology.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Staff provide a highly effective learning environment that helps children to develop excellent social skills. Children are highly confident learners and regularly help each other with their learning. For example, children work together to set the table ready for snack time, helping each other to count the plates and cups they need. Children enthusiastically choose where they wish to play. They enjoy playing in the very well-resourced outside area, and children who prefer to learn outdoors have exceptional opportunities to do so.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children develop highly effective skills and make significant progress, ready for the move to school. All children develop excellent independence skills. For example, children enthusiastically tidy away resources unprompted, and work together to move larger equipment. They make excellent progress with their literacy development. For example, they use letter sounds skilfully to spell out their names and to write them correctly.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 137303 Local authority Bromley Inspection number 825667 Type of provision Sessional provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 2 - 4 Total number of places 32 Number of children on roll 53 Name of registered person Sandra Baker

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Date of previous inspection 29 April 2010 Telephone number 07980 485 449

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Greystones Pre-School registered in 1997. It operates from a community hall in a residential area of West Wickham, in the London Borough of Bromley. It is open each weekday during term time from 9am to midday. Afternoon sessions are on Tuesday and Thursday from 1pm to 3.30pm. There is also a lunch club on Tuesday and Thursday. There are nine staff employed, including the owner, of whom eight hold relevant childcare qualifications at levels 2 and 3.

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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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