Playtime Day Nursery Tolworth

Playtime Day Nursery Tolworth 117 Tolworth Rise North, Surbiton, Surrey, KT5 9EP

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 6 June 2016 26 July 2013

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Personal development, behaviour and welfare Requires improvement Outcomes for children Requires improvement

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This provision requires improvement. It is not yet good because:

 Staff are not always effective in following through plans to help children as they settle into new areas of the nursery.  The identification of next steps in children's learning is not always sufficiently focused on helping every child make the best possible progress in their learning.  The provider is not effective enough in monitoring if, or how, additional funding improves learning outcomes for children.

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It has the following strengths

 Senior staff ensure that thorough safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures, including safer recruitment, are implemented consistently.  Leadership and management, and the staff team, have worked together to raise some aspects of practice across most areas of the nursery. They provide a happy learning environment for most of the children who attend.  Staff effectively promote children's communication and language skills, including those learning English as an additional language.  Children behave well for their ages. Staff provide them with a wealth of interesting opportunities for play and discovery, for example, as they explore different cultures through music, cooking and storytelling.  Partnership working with parents is strong. Parents are valued and their views are sought, respected and acted upon.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

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

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Due Date

 ensure the role of the key person is effective in helping children settle into new groups and gain the confidence to be fully included in activities 01/07/2016

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 ensure staff provide frequent opportunities for all children to achieve the next steps in their learning and development, and make good progress from their unique starting points. 01/07/2016

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

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 raise the effectiveness of monitoring children's progress and identify the impact of additional funding on raising outcomes for children to ensure that every child makes good progress.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed a wide range of activities and care routines across the indoor and outdoor play areas. The inspector talked with staff and children about what they were doing.  The inspector reviewed documents relating to safeguarding, staff recruitment, self- evaluation and managing accidents or injuries, and checked a selection of other policies.  The inspector sampled a range of documentation, including children's records and progress checks, the setting's planning and evaluation documents and information sharing with parents.  The inspector took account of the views of parents spoken to on the day, checked the complaints log and sampled information provided by parents in their responses to questionnaires.  The inspector met with the leadership team and undertook a joint observation with the manager.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management requires improvement

Safeguarding is effective. Staff have a clear understanding of their responsibilities to protect children and keep them safe and healthy. They follow thorough daily procedures to ensure children play in a safe environment and know what to do if they have any concerns about a child's welfare. The senior management team uses self-evaluation well overall and has made some improvements to the nursery since the last inspection. For example, recruitment, supervision and training continue to develop aspects of staff's practice. However, monitoring of all children's progress, and the impact of additional funding, is not fully effective. Partnerships with other local nurseries, schools and agencies in the community, such as the local authority adviser, support outcomes for all children. Staff share informal daily updates about children's learning with parents. They provide written progress reports with them at parents' evenings.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment requires improvement

Children make steady progress in their learning and development. Staff make detailed observations of children's achievements and share these with their parents. However, they do not always use what they know about children to identify or target all children's next steps in their learning effectively. Staff use the large, well-resourced outside play areas to extend all areas of children's learning. For example, toddlers are curious to find and examine insects and mini-beasts in their woodlands, vegetable plot and flower gardens.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare require improvement

Babies and toddlers quickly settle in the care of experienced and enthusiastic staff. They play happily, learn to take turns, share, and communicate well. However, care plans for children moving to the older group are not always followed well. Some children do not receive the attention they need to join in with activities and make new friends. Children gain increasing levels of independence as, for example, they serve themselves healthy meals and help prepare themselves for outdoor play. They learn to manage considered risks safely as, for example, toddlers experiment with glue or older children learn to use computers and tablets.

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Outcomes for children require improvement

Overall, children learn some of the skills they need for school. For example, with adult support, older children enjoy using reference books to find out about different sea-life and computers to research different dinosaurs. Children copy patterns and use different writing tools to mark out sequences. Some take an interest in matching letters to sounds and recognising the written word in context. However, some children do not have the confidence to participate in activities and, therefore, they do not make good progress.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY457701 Local authority Kingston upon Thames Inspection number 1028436 Type of provision Full-time provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register Age range of children 0 - 5 Total number of places 34 Number of children on roll 54 Name of registered person The Playtime Group Partnership

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Date of previous inspection 26 July 2013 Telephone number 0208 399 1951

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Playtime Day Nursery Tolworth registered in 2013. The nursery is in Tolworth, Surrey, in the London Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames. The nursery opens each weekday from 7.30am to 6pm, all year round, excluding bank holidays. The nursery receives funding for the provision of free early education for children aged two, three and four years. There are 10 staff; of these, nine hold appropriate qualifications from level 2 to level 6.

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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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