Bright Horizons Bristol Long Ashton Day Nursery and Preschool

Bristol Pre-School & Day Nursery C/o David Lloyd Tennis Centre, Ashton Road, Bristol, Avon, BS3 2HB

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 24 October 2016 7 May 2013

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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

 All children receive the precise support they need to reach their potential. The extremely conscientious and attentive staff team respond with great skill to meet children's needs. Staff use their assessments of what children know and can do meticulously to plan each child's next stage of learning. Children make rapid progress from their starting points.  Staff are dedicated to providing children with the very best support to enhance their well-being and motivation to learn. Children's independence and confidence flourish, for example, as they engage fully in well-thought-out challenges in the nursery's routines.  The stimulating environment, social atmosphere and staff's well-timed interactions provide exceptional support for children's rapidly developing communication skills. For example, staff add signs and actions to activities, such as singing and stories, to enrich, and quickly advance, children's listening, understanding and speaking skills.

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This provision is outstanding

 Partnerships with parents are excellent. Parents are extremely well informed about all aspects of children's care and learning, including ways to support children's learning at home. Staff constantly find innovative ways to involve parents further.  Managers and staff have an uncompromising commitment to achieve excellence in all areas. They review and evaluate the quality of their provision extensively. Highly focused improvement plans, and timely actions to sustain practice of the highest quality, contribute significantly to maintaining high levels of achievement for every child.

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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

 make the best use of opportunities to enhance further the challenge provided for older children to develop their thinking at the highest level.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed activities in all of the play rooms, the outside learning environment and conducted a joint observation with the assistant manager.  The inspector held a meeting with the assistant manager and regional manager of the provision. She spoke to staff and children throughout the inspection when appropriate.  The inspector checked evidence of suitability checks and qualifications of staff working within the setting, the provider's evidence of self-evaluation and a range of other documentation.  The inspector looked at children's assessment and planning documentation, the setting's risk assessment and safety records.  The inspector took account of the views of parents spoken to on the day and by reading a number of comments on questionnaires and letters given to the manager.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. Staff are vigilant about following rigorous procedures to maintain children's welfare and safety. They are very confident about the action to take if they had a concern about a child's well-being. Managers monitor the quality of teaching rigorously. Supervision of staff is highly effective in identifying individual needs to precisely target professional development plans. For example, staff attend training to enhance specified areas of practice and share best practice with others. Managers scrutinise the progress of groups and individual children meticulously. Excellent partnership working with parents, and other professionals, enables staff to close any gaps in children's learning rapidly.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff never tire of joining in with children's play. They support children's investigations with great skill to encourage their deep curiosity and enjoyment of learning. Babies develop their vocabulary rapidly, for example, as they listen and respond to the words staff use during children's play. Children are highly confident to speak and to share their thoughts and ideas, as a large group and individually. Older children make excellent use of technological equipment to extend their learning, for example, navigating computer programs to consolidate their mathematical skills. Occasionally, staff miss opportunities to enhance challenges for older children to encourage them to think at the highest level.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The highly experienced and stable team is exceptionally caring. Staff are particularly sensitive and responsive to meeting the specific needs of children and their families to help them settle. Babies and children develop a real sense of belonging. Staff are extremely attentive and provide exemplary support to help all children learn to manage their behaviour exceptionally well. Staff make excellent use of all areas of the nursery and garden to present exciting and inviting spaces, motivating children exceptionally well to follow their interests and develop their skills. Children are highly animated as they engage in exciting activities that increase their understanding of the world. For example, they have immense fun and extend their creativity and imagination using outside dens to explore innovative autumn resources and act out stories about woodland animals.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

All children, including those who have special educational needs or disability, make substantial and sustained progress consistently in all areas of learning. Children develop curiosity and have highly positive attitudes towards learning. They listen attentively and concentrate at an excellent level, in advance of their age and stage of development. They acquire an extensive range of skills that support their readiness for the next stage of their learning and their eventual move on to school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY286451 Local authority North Somerset Inspection number 1061789 Type of provision Full-time provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 0 - 4 Total number of places 48 Number of children on roll 60 Name of registered person Asquith Court Nurseries Limited

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Date of previous inspection 7 May 2013 Telephone number 0117 953 2830

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Bristol Pre-School and Day Nursery registered in 2004. The nursery employs 23 members of staff. Of these, 16 hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3 and above, including one with qualified teacher status. The nursery opens Monday to Friday all year round. Sessions are from 7.30am until 6.30pm. The nursery provides funded early education for 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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