St James' Pre-school Link

St James' Pre-school Link St James' Church, Pokesdown, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH7 6DW

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 24 June 2016 7 July 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

 The pre-school manager evaluates the quality of the provision extremely effectively. For example, she makes excellent use of daily evaluations to check how well the provision meets children's needs.  Teaching is consistently excellent. All staff relate to children extremely effectively. For example, staff talk to children in ways that absorb them and develop their thinking very strongly.  Children form exceedingly secure and confident relationships with staff. They settle in extremely quickly. Their consistently relaxed and positive behaviour shows that they feel very safe and secure.  The pre-school manager ensures that staff work with parents extremely well. For example, she makes sure that assessment takes account of information from parents.  Children behave exceedingly well towards one another. They cooperate and share activities together extremely well.  Children's learning is consistently excellent. Children make rapid progress, given what

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This provision is outstanding

they know when they start, and they achieve highly.  The pre-school encourages children's independence extremely well. For example, children frequently lead the direction of their activities and serve themselves during snack time.

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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

 give children further opportunities to develop their use, learning and understanding of technology.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of teaching and the impact this has on children's learning.  The inspector completed a joint observation with the pre-school manager.  The inspector held discussions with the manager and other members of staff.  The inspector sampled relevant documentation, such as the pre-school's self- evaluation, records of children's progress, and documents relating to safeguarding.  The inspector spoke to a number of parents during the inspection and read the pre- school's record of parents' views.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The pre-school manager gives staff excellent guidance and support and makes superb use of their training and qualifications. She ensures that staff constantly share their professional expertise and excellent understanding of the early years requirements to produce extremely consistent practice. She checks children's progress very carefully to meet their needs closely. Links with parents and the adjacent school enable staff, parents and other professionals to work together extremely well to make sure that children's well- being and learning remain high. For example, children share some events and activities with the school's Reception class to help prepare them for moving into the school. Safeguarding is effective. The pre-school manager ensures that staff have an excellent understanding of the procedures to follow should a safeguarding concern arise.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff assess children's needs and progress extremely well. Thorough and detailed records of children's learning help staff to determine which skills individual children need to develop. Staff carefully plan activities that absorb children's interest and contain very high levels of challenge. For instance, during the inspection, staff engaged children with a mathematical activity that prompted them to count and sort toy people with increasing sophistication. Staff are extremely quick to respond to children's interests, such as in one activity that involved children travelling through a self-devised obstacle course. The activities offered to children cover all areas of learning extremely well overall. However, there are a few times when children's opportunities to develop their use and understanding of technology are slightly limited.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Staff have very high expectations of children's behaviour. They successfully encourage children to work together in an extremely considerate and respectful manner where all feel valued. For instance, staff constantly remind children of the importance of 'making the right choices'. Staff encourage children and demonstrate how much they value them at all times. They supervise children extremely effectively and help them learn how to keep safe. For example, during the inspection, staff ensured that children walked safely into the adjacent grounds to have a group photograph taken.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children are extremely confident and keen to explore activities and learn. They progress swiftly, given what they know when they start. They develop mathematical, linguistic, expressive and physical skills extremely well. For example, children speak clearly, are able to count, sort, and can concentrate for substantial periods of time. Children are extremely well prepared for the next stages of their learning and education.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 100523 Local authority Bournemouth Inspection number 824631 Type of provision Sessional provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register Age range of children 3 - 4 Total number of places 26 Number of children on roll 34 Name of registered person Barbara-Anne Mills

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Date of previous inspection 7 July 2010 Telephone number 07976 044 459

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St James' Pre-school Link registered in 1996. It operates from a church hall in the grounds of a school in Pokesdown, Bournemouth, with which it has strong links. The pre-school is open during school term times on weekdays from 8.30am to midday. Eight staff currently work at the setting, six of whom hold appropriate early years qualifications, including one who has qualified teacher status. The pre-school receives government funding for free early years education for some children aged three and four years.

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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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