Hearts and Minds

Hearts and Minds Billinge House, Euxton Lane, Euxton, CHORLEY, Lancashire, PR7 6DL

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 6 January 2017 8 August 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

 Outstanding and inspirational leadership motivates and drives the excellent staff team. Staff are given focused responsibilities within the nursery, which they relish. They carry out their tasks with passion and commitment. Staff express how supported they feel in their professional development, which is highly personalised according to their needs, strengths and interests.  Staff know children exceedingly well. They make excellent use of information to plan meticulously for children's individual needs and interests. An exceptional key-person system fully supports children's emotional well-being and helps them to develop secure and trusting relationships. This contributes towards children being exceptionally happy, settled and assured.  Children eagerly play and explore in this warm, welcoming and highly stimulating environment. The quality of teaching is outstanding and staff are skilled at differentiating activities that highly challenge children and motivate them to learn

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This provision is outstanding

rapidly. Children continuously show high levels of engagement, curiosity and concentration.  Staff develop remarkably strong partnerships with parents. Staff offer learning challenges for parents and children to complete at home. Staff have created superb home-link bags and a resource library for families to enjoy together at home. Social events celebrate children's achievements and parents have frequent opportunities to discuss the next steps in their children's learning.  The manager and her leadership team are extremely dedicated and committed to providing the highest standards of care and education. They have high expectations of staff, children and parents and successfully promote a culture of excellence and achievement for all. Self-evaluation processes are insightful, precise and purposeful.

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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

 implement the excellent plans to enhance the outdoor learning environment even further.

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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 completed a joint observation with the nursery manager.  The inspector held a meeting with the manager.  The inspector looked at relevant documentation, including the nursery's self-evaluation and evidence of the suitability of staff working at the nursery.  The inspector spoke to staff, children and parents during the inspection and took account of their views.  The inspector had a tour of the nursery.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. The management team and staff take extremely effective measures to keep children safe. The entire staff team has a very clear understanding about safeguarding children and how to refer child protection concerns to the correct authorities. The manager's evaluation of the setting is sharply focused, extremely accurate and continuous. There is a real pursuit of excellence in the nursery. They incisively recognise areas they want to develop further, such as ambitious plans to enhance the outdoor learning environment. Staff benefit from regular supervision meetings. The rigorous review of practice and targeted training result in highly effective teaching. Furthermore, meticulous monitoring of progress for different groups of children helps to ensure that all children make equally excellent progress.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff observe children accurately and complete robust assessments of their progress. Staff superbly capture children's attention during routines. For example, children notice a robin that has come to the window. Staff talk to children about the food it may eat and where it lives, igniting their curiosity and wonder in the world around them. Staff give children's communication and language development excellent attention. They ask challenging questions and always give children time to respond and listen carefully to their ideas. They support younger children's understanding of language, for example, through repetition, extending sentences and providing children with commentary as they play. Toddlers happily engage in singing rhymes and older children are sensitively introduced to early reading and writing. They develop their word and letter skills through fun activities.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The management team has carefully considered how to create an environment where children receive optimum learning opportunities, both indoors and outdoors. Babies and young children respond extremely well to the nurturing manner of staff. They explore the environment with increasing confidence, reassured that their key person is close by. Children's behaviour is impeccable. Older children learn how to sensibly use equipment and develop an excellent understanding of how to stay safe. For example, they carefully move up and down stairs and negotiate space in the garden as they run with their friends. This helps to boost their physical skills. Children benefit from eating healthy meals and have many opportunities to learn about healthy lifestyles. Staff are excellent role models and everybody is treated with the greatest respect. Staff work diligently with other professionals and local schools to ensure that transitions are smooth.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

All children, including those in receipt of additional funding, thrive in this stimulating and wholly inclusive environment. Children are highly motivated and develop extremely positive attitudes to their learning. They acquire a wide range of skills that prepares them exceptionally well for school. Children work collaboratively together as they share, take turns and listen to others' opinions. Children confidently express their needs and feelings, initiating their own ideas to extend their learning.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY458179 Local authority Lancashire Inspection number 1066625 Type of provision Full-time provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register Age range of children 0 - 4 Total number of places 45 Number of children on roll 66 Name of registered person Sasha UK Ltd

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Date of previous inspection 8 August 2013 Telephone number 01257272515

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Hearts and Minds was registered in 2013. It is situated in a two-storey detached building in the Euxton area of Lancashire. The nursery employs 15 members of childcare staff. Of these, 11 members of staff hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3 or above, including one member of staff with qualified teacher status and one who holds early years professional status. The nursery opens Monday to Friday all year round, apart from bank holidays and Christmas. Sessions are from 7am until 6.30pm. The nursery provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.

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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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