Netanya Nature Preschool

Netanya Nature Preschool Springbourne Christian Centre, 50 Curzon Road, Bournemouth, BH1 4PP

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 11 July 2016 Not applicable

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This inspection: Inadequate 4

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Inadequate 4

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This inspection: Inadequate 4

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Personal development, behaviour and welfare Inadequate 4

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This inspection: Inadequate 4

Outcomes for children Requires improvement

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This provision is inadequate

 Staff fail to implement their risk assessments to keep children safe and support their well-being on outings. For example, children tried to climb on an iron fence in the park.  The manager does not ensure that staff implement the setting's safeguarding policies. For example, staff do not require adults in proximity to children to follow the no- smoking policy, or monitor adults' use of mobile phones when taking photographs.  The manager does not have contingency plans in place when specialist staff are unavailable. Staff do not always meet the needs of children who have special educational needs adequately at these times.  The manager does not monitor staff performance to ensure children's safety and well- being. The deployment of staff does not meet children's individual needs consistently to ensure they make good progress.  Outings are poorly organised and planning for them is ineffective. Staff fail to react

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This provision is inadequate

quickly when children are not engaged. Children's behaviour deteriorates, putting themselves and others at risk. Staff do not manage children's behaviour appropriately.  The manager and staff do not monitor and evaluate the provision sufficiently to identify breaches in requirements, including those of the Childcare Register, or to recognise when they need to take immediate action to improve outcomes for children.

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It has the following strengths

 Children enjoy learning about the natural world, for example, looking at insects.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

To meet the requirements of the early years foundation stage and the Childcare Register the provider must:

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Due Date

 ensure that staff implement effective risk assessments to keep children safe adequately, including on outings 01/09/2016

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 ensure staff follow the safeguarding policy, in particular, ensuring all adults in proximity to children understand and follow the setting's policy with regard to the use of mobile phones and smoking 01/09/2016

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 monitor staff performance to ensure children's safety and well- being at all times 01/09/2016

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 ensure that staff are deployed effectively to support children, including making adequate contingency plans to support children who have special educational needs, to enable them to fully participate in, and learn from, planned activities 01/09/2016

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 ensure that staff manage children's behaviour in an appropriate way, taking into account their level of understanding and stage of development, to help them learn what is expected and how to behave safely 01/09/2016

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 improve planning to ensure that children are well occupied and enjoy the activities, especially on outings. 01/09/2016

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To further improve the quality of the early years provision the provider should:

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 make effective use of self-evaluation to identify breaches in requirements and target areas for improvement, to improve the quality of provision for children.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector spoke to staff and children at different times during the inspection.  The inspector completed observations in the playroom and outdoor areas.  The inspector spoke to parents to gain their views.  The inspector held a meeting with the manager to discuss how the provision is managed, and sampled documentation including staff records, policies and children's learning records.  The inspection took place following the risk assessment process.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is inadequate

Safeguarding is ineffective. Staff fail to ensure that children are safe on outings. Children run around without realising the risks to themselves and others. Staff fail to ensure that safeguarding procedures are followed so that adults understand the need to follow no- smoking and mobile phone use policies when in proximity to children. The manager does not monitor staff performance adequately. She does not ensure that staff implement risk assessments and she fails to monitor the provision or the deployment of staff effectively. The manager does not ensure that there are contingency plans when specialist staff are not present, to ensure the needs of all children are met. The manager monitors the educational programmes suitably to make sure that children make progress. Staff build positive relationships with parents, overall. For example, staff share information and encourage parents to talk about their children's learning at home. Staff attend specialist

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is inadequate

meetings with parents to provide support for them and their children.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment requires improvement

The manager and staff have had extensive support from the local early years team to help them improve their system for observation, assessment and planning. However, weaknesses in the planning and organisation of activities, and deployment of staff, mean that children do not make good progress at all times. In the setting, staff engage well with small groups of children to support their literacy skills. Children listen with interest as staff read stories. Staff develop children's mathematical understanding. For example, they encourage them to use their fingers to help them count the children.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are inadequate

Significant weaknesses in safeguarding compromise children's safety and well-being. Children's behaviour deteriorates on outings and in the playroom because staff do not always plan activities which keep them busy and well occupied. Staff fail to keep children safe at all times. For example, on an outing to practise their sports day, children ran off in the park and staff were unable to keep up with them. Staff did not complete adequate risk assessments for all aspects of the outing. They failed to identify that children were at risk of running into swings as they move, and that they were likely to run off and risk being alone in a public place.

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Outcomes for children require improvement

Overall, children make some progress and learn some skills to prepare them for school. For example, they find their name at lunchtime and they are generally independent in their personal care. However, at times children are not sufficiently engaged in activities that interest them and they become bored. Children who have special educational needs receive appropriate support to help them make progress, but this is not assured when specialist staff are not present to support their learning.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY494128 Local authority Bournemouth Inspection number 1055577 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 26 Number of children on roll 24 Name of registered person Yavneh Kindergarten Partnership

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Date of previous inspection Not applicable Telephone number 07831 530216

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Netanya Nature Preschool registered in 2015. It is situated in the Boscombe area of Bournemouth in Dorset. The pre-school is open during term times only from 9am to 3pm each weekday and offers an optional breakfast club from 8.30am if required. A team of five staff is employed to work with the children; two staff hold a relevant childcare qualification at level 4, one holds a qualification at level 3, and one is qualified to level 2.

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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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