Our Den at Hillside

Yellow Brick House Nursery Hillside Hillside Primary School, Rushey Way, Lower Earley, Reading, RG6 4HQ

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 25 January 2017 22 April 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

 The very experienced manager uses self-evaluation highly effectively and meticulously monitors the quality of teaching, including the observations and assessments staff undertake. This helps her to identify the strengths of the provision and further areas for development. Children make outstanding progress from their starting points.  The manager has an exceptional understanding of her role and responsibilities. She works in excellent partnership with a variety of professionals, parents and other providers. For example, to share her expertise and gain new ideas to raise the quality of the provision even higher.  Children express their ideas, feelings and needs exceptionally well. They are highly involved in planning their learning with staff. They make choices about their play and learning and take part in learning experiences that challenge and interest them. For example, outdoors, children explored ice and how to make it safe, and used large-scale

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This provision is outstanding

construction during role play to build a fire engine.  Staff form extremely close bonds with their key children. Children feel extremely safe and secure in their care and show high levels of confidence in approaching them, such as to discuss their thoughts or for a cuddle. Staff motivate children to play and learn, and develop their self-esteem and confidence extremely well, such as through the excellent use of praise and encouragement.

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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

 continue to develop opportunities for children to solve problems and think critically to extend their learning even further.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed teaching and the impact this had on children's learning indoors and outdoors.  The inspector carried out a joint observation with the manager.  The inspector assessed staff's understanding of how to keep children safe.  The inspector took account of the views of parents spoken to on the day of inspection.  The inspector sampled children's records, online learning journals, some policies and other documents.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The manager ensures staff continually refresh their understanding of all indicators that children are at risk of harm. Staff have an excellent knowledge of how to keep children safe. Safeguarding is effective. The manager monitors and observes staff practice highly effectively, including providing ideas to enhance their knowledge and skills. This helps staff provide all children with excellent learning experiences that meet their individual needs. The manager quickly identifies and responds to any gaps in groups or individual children's learning, including planning support to close any gaps in their development. Funding is used exceptionally well, including providing training to staff to help them support children even more effectively The manager has recently identified that, at times, opportunities to help support children to solve problems and think critically are missed.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff provide a highly stimulating environment. They plan each day extremely effectively to follow children's interests and to meet their individual needs. For example, group activities for younger children are managed exceptionally well so that they remain fully engaged and interested. Staff offer exceptionally interesting activities, which help motivate children to develop their mathematical skills. For example, older children engaged exceptionally well when they sorted magnetic shapes and created two- and three- dimensional shapes in different colours and sequences. Staff provide excellent support to children who are learning English as an additional language. For example, they ask parents to record familiar stories in children's home language to use alongside dual language books. This helps children develop their home language alongside English.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children develop an excellent understanding of how to stay safe and manage risk. For example, they take great delight in taking turns to ride wheeled ride-on toys down a slope, learning how to balance and stay in control to complete this safely. Staff develop children's knowledge of healthy lifestyles extremely well. For instance, while chopping vegetables, children explore the benefits of these and discuss the importance of exercise. Children develop outstanding social skills. For example, young children learn about their emotions and feelings, and staff help them recognise and manage these extremely well.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children are exceptionally keen learners, who make independent choices about their play and learning from the wide range of resources. They gain excellent literacy skills, such as learning to recognise their names from a young age. Children use a wide range of technology and learn how things work, such as using computers to find out information. All children are exceptionally well prepared for the next stage in their education.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY434089 Local authority Wokingham Inspection number 1062519 Type of provision Full-time provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register Age range of children 1 - 3 Total number of places 30 Number of children on roll 25 Name of registered person Yellow Brick House Nursery Limited

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Date of previous inspection 22 April 2013 Telephone number 01183271312

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Yellow Brick House Nursery Hillside registered in 2012. It is situated in Lower Earley in Reading. The nursery is part of a chain of nurseries. It is open on weekdays from 7.50am to 6pm, throughout the year except for a week at Christmas. The nursery receives funding to provide free early education for children aged two and three years. There are 11 members of staff including the manager; of these, nine hold relevant childcare qualifications from level 2 to level 4.

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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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