Sunshine Nursery

Sunshine Nursery Castelnau Youth Centre, 7 Stillingfleet Road, London, SW13 9AQ

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 3 February 2017 13 September 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

 Children are highly motivated to learn. Staff provide a rich and supportive learning environment which has a wide range of high-quality and inspiring resources.  Staff accurately and precisely monitor children's development. They have an excellent awareness of each child's uniqueness and plan exciting and challenging activities to engage them. The manager is completely aware of any gaps in children's development and works extremely closely with staff to close them. All children make rapid progress.  Dedicated, warm and caring staff expertly nurture children's emotional well-being. Children learn how to care for, and look after, each other. They form very close friendships and seek each other out to share their play, learning and experiences.  Partnerships with parents and other settings children attend are excellent. Staff value their input into children's ongoing development and they all work closely together to

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This provision is outstanding

ensure children have the best possible learning opportunities.  Children feel extremely safe and secure. They form very strong attachments with staff, who support their individual needs to the highest standards.  Managers fully involve staff, parents and children in the ongoing evaluation of the nursery. For example, feedback from parental questionnaires lead to improvements in giving parents information at the end of the day of what their children had been doing.

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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 plans to offer even more precisely targeted challenge to the oldest children.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector spoke to the manager and other staff at appropriate times throughout the inspection.  The inspector engaged with the children at appropriate times during the inspection.  The inspector observed children's indoor and outdoor play, snack and lunch times, and hygiene routines.  The inspector engaged in a joint observation with the manager.  The inspector sampled various documents, including risk assessments, the self- evaluation form, and a range of policies and procedures.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. All staff have an excellent knowledge of the signs and symptoms which may cause concern for a child's welfare and fully understand the procedures to follow. The manager provides superb support to staff and together they successfully identify ways to strengthen their excellent knowledge and practice even further. For example, staff recognised some children needed extra support with their speech and language development. They introduced more visual aids and attended training to introduce simple hand sign language to help children communicate.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff have very high expectations of the children in their care. They plan challenging activities that help them to make excellent progress. They would like to explore ways to refine teaching even further to sharply target support for children who are preparing to move on to school. Staff expertly encourage children to be imaginative, learn new skills and develop their thinking. For example, as children act out stories in the garden, staff very skilfully ask challenging questions to take their learning to a higher level. Staff use every opportunity to support children's language skills and children are wonderfully confident communicators. For example, as children search for bugs in the garden, staff encourage them to notice the differences in their appearance. Children are fascinated as they observe the creatures closely and excitedly talk about how and where they live.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

All children behave extremely well and display excellent self-control. They learn to respect each other and consider the feelings of others. For instance, they talk about their feelings and how someone's actions might make them feel. Staff are excellent role models. They support healthy lifestyles exceptionally well. Children serve themselves nutritional snacks and develop a good understanding of how their bodies work. For instance, they explain that, as they have been playing outside and are sweaty, they need to have some water. Children thoroughly enjoy the exciting outdoor activities and they learn to take carefully managed risks as they climb over rocks, hills and balance beams. They very enthusiastically take part in yoga, physical games, and music and movement sessions and demonstrate superb control and coordination.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children are confident and eager to learn. They gain an excellent understanding of mathematics and literacy at a young age. For example, children recognise and read some numbers and link them to the songs they are about to sing. Children very confidently understand and respect people's differences, such as when they learn about each other's home languages and look through a range of bilingual books to support this. All children make exceptional progress in preparation for moving to school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY457403 Local authority Richmond upon Thames Inspection number 1063250 Type of provision Sessional provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register Age range of children 2 - 4 Total number of places 30 Number of children on roll 26 Name of registered person Lisa Lowden

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Date of previous inspection 13 September 2013 Telephone number 07500563984

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Sunshine Nursery registered in 2008 but was re-registered in 2013 due to a change of premises. It is based in Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames. The nursery opens from 8.30am to 3.30pm on Monday to Friday, during term time only. It is in receipt of funding for the provision of free early education for children aged two, three and four years. There are four staff members including the provider, three of whom hold appropriate qualifications at level 3 and one holds a qualification at level 2.

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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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