Homestead Road Playgroup

Homestead Road Playgroup Thringstone Miners Social Centre, Homestead Road, Thringstone, Coalville, Leicestershire, LE67 8LL

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 8 November 2016 27 November 2013

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This inspection: Good 2

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Good 2

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This inspection: Good 2

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 2

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This inspection: Good 2

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 2

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This provision is good

 Staff have a good understanding of how children learn. They effectively use the observations to plan and provide activities for children's next steps in learning.  There is a strong key-person system in place, promoting children's emotional well-being effectively. As a result, children are happy and settled at the playgroup.  Staff are positive role models who provide children with consistent rules and boundaries. As a result, children behave well. They are friendly, polite and show respect to one another.  Children learn about how to keep safe. They begin to judge risk for themselves, such as when playing on large climbing equipment.  Partnerships between staff and other early years professionals are effective. This helps to ensure that children's additional care and educational needs are prioritised and supported.  The manager has a clear plan for developments, including to further improve the

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This provision is good

playgroup. She leads a team of well-qualified staff that shows enthusiasm and dedication for its work.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 Opportunities for staff's professional development are not yet focused sharply enough on enhancing their individual teaching skills to a higher level.  Staff have not yet explored a range of ways to gather the views of parents to inform the playgroup's self-evaluation process to help drive forward improvements.

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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

 focus professional development more sharply to help staff raise the quality of their teaching further and increase the potential for all children to make even greater progress in their learning  explore a range of ways to collect the views of parents and use these to inform the playgroup's self-evaluation to help drive forward further improvement.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of teaching during activities indoors and outdoors and assessed the impact this has on children's learning.  The inspector evaluated learning activities with the manager of the playgroup.  The inspector held a meeting with the manager and the deputy manager. She looked at and discussed relevant documentation, such as the self-evaluation and evidence of the suitability of staff working in the playgroup.  The inspector spoke to parents during the inspection and took account of their views.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

Arrangements for safeguarding are effective. All staff have completed safeguarding training. They demonstrate a secure knowledge of the signs and symptoms of possible abuse. Furthermore, they fully understand their responsibility to report any concerns they have regarding a child's welfare. Staff quickly remove or reduce any potential risks in the playgroup, contributing to a safe environment in which children play and learn. Children's assessments are regularly reviewed. This helps to identify any areas where children may require additional support, in order to meet their individual needs. Staff implement any advice they receive from external agencies and services to help children to make progress in their learning. Additional funding has been used to plan small-group sessions for children to build on their social and communication skills. Tracking of children's progress shows that all of them, including those who have special educational needs and

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

disabilities, make good progress in their learning.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

Staff talk confidently about where children are in their learning and development and what they need to do to support their continuing progress. Staff offer lots of tools and materials for children to practise their early writing skills, both inside and outside. Children develop their creativity as they use materials to make collages. Staff make the best possible use of opportunities to extend children's communication, language and problem-solving skills. For example, they encourage children to recall and talk about past events. Staff ask questions to children and wait for them to respond. This helps to sustain children's interest as they begin to develop their own ideas. Children begin to recognise their own names when they self-register on arrival at the playgroup. The most able children are beginning to recognise the sounds of letters of the alphabet.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Children attend sessions in the playgroup with their parents before they begin to stay on their own. This helps children to settle and supports their emotional well-being. Children's health is supported well. Staff provide nutritious and well-balanced snacks. Parents provide a packed lunch for their child that adheres to the playgroup's healthy eating policy, helping to ensure continuity in promoting a healthy lifestyle. Children delight in opening their lunch and seeing what they have. Lunchtime is used as a social occasion where children talk about their day and share stories of their home life. Children spend time in the outdoor play area on a daily basis as they exercise in the fresh air and develop their physical skills.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children are making good progress in their learning. They are becoming confident communicators. They also build on their developing vocabulary. For example, children roll balls to each other as they call out each other's names. They recognise colours as they punch balloons in the air and talk about big and small as they pop bubbles. Children learn to share, take turns and cooperate with each other. They are learning valuable skills in readiness for their future learning, including their move to school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 226213 Local authority Leicestershire Inspection number 1063777 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 17 Name of registered person Homestead Road Playgroup Committee

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Date of previous inspection 27 November 2013 Telephone number 07980 498028

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Homestead Road Playgroup was registered in 1980. The playgroup employs five members of childcare staff. Of these, four hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3. The playgroup opens Monday to Thursday during term time only. Sessions are from 9.15am until 1pm. The playgroup provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year- old children. It supports children who have special educational needs and disabilities.

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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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