Toad Hall Day Nursery

Toad Hall Day Nursery 2 Apsley Terrace, Ilfracombe, Devon, EX34 9JU

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 27 January 2017 21 October 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

 The manager makes effective use of self-evaluation to identify strengths and areas for improvement. For example, she has successfully introduced tracking procedures that enhance the information staff gather about children's progress. Staff use accurate observation and assessment. They promptly identify and address any gaps in children's learning through challenging activities.  All children, including those who receive additional funding and those who have special educational needs, achieve well. Staff regularly inform parents how to help their children's learning at home. Children make good progress from their starting points.  Children behave well. They are safe and secure. Staff support them well to follow expectations and work together. For example, pre-school children help to prepare and organise snack, and two-year-olds help to tidy away toys.  Staff challenge pre-school children effectively to improve their mathematical skills, for

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This provision is good

example through counting how many toys and adding one more. Children aged two years learn to recognise objects and name colours and shapes.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 Staff working with the toddlers do not consistently encourage them to think more for themselves and increase their language and construct simple sentences.  There are not enough challenges to enable older children to develop control and coordination of their bodies and large movements.

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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

 increase staff support for the toddlers to encourage them to think more for themselves and increase their language and construct simple sentences  provide more opportunities for older children to develop control and coordination of their bodies and large movements.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector sampled documentation, including safeguarding information and records of children's progress.  The inspector observed many different activities in the playrooms and watched children playing in the outdoor play areas.  The inspector held several meetings with the manager and spoke to members of staff about the service.  The inspector spoke to several parents to gain their views about the nursery.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

The manager and staff update their safeguarding knowledge regularly. They understand their responsibilities fully and know what they need to do if they are concerned about a child in their care. Safeguarding is effective. The manager supports staff well to attend training and increase their teaching skills. This has helped them to plan effective activities that target children's learning needs. For example, they help older children to use pincers to pick up small objects, to effectively strengthen the muscles in their hands in preparation for early writing. The manager uses self-evaluation well to monitor children's progress and identify any gaps in the quality of teaching and children's learning. She uses additional funding well, for example, to increase staff numbers working with the two-year-olds to provide them with more focused and consistent support.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

Staff use their strong knowledge of young children's learning to plan effective activities that target their next steps well. They support older children well in preparation for school. For example, pre-school children learnt about dinosaurs as they played with models. Staff encouraged them to find a book about dinosaurs and helped them to match their own dinosaur model with the ones in the book. Children identified the initial letter of the dinosaur and found several other words with the same initial letter. Assessment of children's skills is effective to ensure that children make good progress and achieve well.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

The manager and staff support children's health, welfare and well-being consistently. They follow effective policies and procedures to ensure children's safety. They successfully teach children how to play safely and take risks. For example, two-year-olds learn to take turns on the slide and wait for their turn to ride on the wheeled toys. Pre-school children kept themselves safe during a bug hunt by wearing gloves 'so that we do not get bitten'. All children benefit from the good quality care and support. They behave well and are always willing to help others, for example, passing food at snack time.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children develop good skills in preparation for future learning and moving on to school. For example, they socialise well, taking turns and sharing their toys. Children aged two years learn to become independent and make their own choices in play. Pre-school children develop good early reading skills though their interest in stories. They recognise letters and match initial sounds to words in pictures. Children enjoy being creative in the 'messy play' areas, using different materials to express themselves. They have good opportunities to develop their early writing skills.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY286908 Local authority Devon Inspection number 1061796 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 1 - 4 Total number of places 29 Number of children on roll 32 Name of registered person Alison Charis Thwaites

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Date of previous inspection 21 October 2013 Telephone number 01271 862475

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Toad Hall Day Nursery registered in 2001. It operates from Ilfracombe in North Devon. It is open from 7.30am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday for 51 weeks of the year. The nursery employs nine staff. Of these, eight have a level 3 qualification and one has a level 2. The nursery receives funding to provide free early years education for children aged two, 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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