Little Stars Nursery

Little Stars Nursery Holy Trinity Church, Granville Road, Stroud Green, London, N4 4EL

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 13 January 2017 28 January 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

 Staff have high expectations of the children and plan a very wide range of highly successful activities based closely upon their individual needs. Children make outstanding progress in relation to their starting points and are extremely well prepared for the next stage in their learning.  Children behave exceptionally well. Staff teach babies and young children to learn to respect and consider each other's views, feelings and ideas. Children share and take turns in play, freely including other children who wish to join in with them.  Staff have excellent links with other professionals and schools. Precise, detailed information is shared regularly which helps to support an extremely consistent approach to children's care and learning.  The management team is ambitious and passionate about providing high-quality childcare. Monitoring of staff performance and children's learning is extremely accurate

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This provision is outstanding

and highly rigorous. This helps to provide children with an inspirational quality of teaching. All children make outstanding progress.  Staff support children's personal and social development highly effectively. Children have an excellent bond with the staff, which helps them to build an exceptionally high level of emotional well-being.

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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

 help children to understand better why they are being praised, to help support their levels of self-esteem even further.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed children in the main room.  The inspector spoke with the manager and staff at appropriate times during the inspection.  The inspector spoke to parents.  The inspector sampled policy documents, including safeguarding, and staff and children's files.  The inspector completed a joint observation with the manager.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. Managers routinely research changes to safeguarding guidance and share this information with staff, which helps them to have an excellent knowledge of how to protect children. Managers regularly and rigorously monitor staff practice. For example, regular staff meetings and appraisals highlight promptly any specific training needs. Recent training has included additional first aid to support staff in how to administer specialist care. This helps them to provide particular medical attention where necessary. Staff monitor all aspects of children's learning extremely well. They quickly identify and address any gaps in children's learning.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Planning is meticulous and encompasses all areas of learning, motivating babies and young children to play and explore extremely well. Children choose from a vibrant range of resources, which helps to promote their learning extremely well. Staff support children highly effectively. For example, staff provide sensory resources, such as foil sheets for babies to scrunch their feet on as they practise to walk. The engagement, imagination and physical development for children are promoted well. For example, staff actively encourage them to join in play and imitate staff's actions, such as pouring and filling various containers and moulds and tapping sand down with large spoons and spades.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children's personal and social skills are outstanding. Staff are excellent role models to children who willingly follow their examples. Children are very well mannered, play very harmoniously together and show great respect for others and their environment. Staff praise children consistently, although some are not always clear why they are being praised, to help extend their well-being. Young children and babies are highly confident learners and regularly help each other with their learning. For example, older children help babies to walk, and support the staff as they help their friends. Staff expertly help children at an early age to recognise and express their own feelings. Staff encourage children to follow healthy lifestyles superbly. They know why certain foods are nutritious and that physical activity is good for them.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

All children, including those who are learning English as an additional language and children who have special educational needs and/or disabilities, develop highly effective skills. They make rapid progress, ready for the move on to their next stages in learning. Children make excellent progress in their communication and language and literacy development. For example, young children expertly recall stories and babies know words to their favourite rhymes.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY446570 Local authority Haringey Inspection number 1062608 Type of provision Full-time provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register Age range of children 0 - 2 Total number of places 20 Number of children on roll 25 Name of registered person Kate Robinson and Claire Marriott Partnership

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Date of previous inspection 28 January 2013 Telephone number 0208 347 8989

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Little Stars Nursery registered in 2012 and is privately owned. The nursery operates from a hall within The Holy Trinity Church in Stroud Green, in the London Borough of Haringey. The nursery opens from 8.15am until 5.45pm every weekday for 50 weeks per year. The nursery employs 13 members of staff working directly with the children, the vast majority of whom hold relevant early years qualifications.

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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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