Thames Tiddlers Nursery

Thames Tiddlers Nursery Shooters Hill Post 16 Campus, Red Lion Lane, Woolwich, London, SE18 4LD

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 6 February 2017 11 February 2014

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This inspection: Inadequate 4

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Inadequate 4

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This inspection: Inadequate 4

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Personal development, behaviour and welfare Inadequate 4

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This inspection: Inadequate 4

Outcomes for children Requires improvement

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This provision is inadequate

 Leaders fail to meet some requirements for the Early Years Register. They do not ensure staff understand all their safeguarding responsibilities. Staff do not know they must report information about their ongoing suitability that could disqualify them from working with children, including by association. They are not aware of signs that children may be at risk from extreme behaviours and views.  Leaders and staff do not identify and minimise all risks and hazards to children in the environment. Staff are not deployed well enough at times to adequately supervise children and keep them safe, such as when using the outside space. This compromises children's safety.  Staff do not always deal with children's behaviour issues quickly and efficiently to minimise accidents and injuries to other children. This puts children's well-being at risk.  Staff do not consistently provide effective interactions and support for children's

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This provision is inadequate

individual learning needs. For example, they do not extend children's emerging role- play ideas or offer younger children opportunities to develop their physical skills further. Children do not make the best possible progress.  Self-evaluation does not identify all weakness, including breaches of requirements, to target improvement and raise the quality of the provision and outcomes for children.

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It has the following strengths

 Children develop their literacy development, such as using a range of writing materials.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

To meet the requirements of the early years foundation stage the provider must:

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Due Date

 improve staff's knowledge of safeguarding matters, with particular regard to reporting information about changes to their suitability relating to disqualification by association; and ensure all staff have a secure knowledge of the signs that children may be at risk from extreme views and behaviours 23/02/2017

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Due Date

 implement and use risk assessments effectively to identify and minimise all potential safety hazards to children, in particular in the outdoor area 23/02/2017

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 improve staff deployment and their supervision of children to minimise risks to children's safety, especially when they are outside 23/02/2017

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 ensure staff understand when to swiftly intervene with clear guidance and explanations to help children manage their behaviour 23/02/2017

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 develop the quality of staff's interactions with children to meet their individual learning needs and to extend their learning experiences effectively. 23/02/2017

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Due Date

To further improve the quality of the early years provision the provider should:

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Due Date

 develop the use of self-evaluation to help identify and address weaknesses, including breaches in requirements, to make improvements that raise the quality of the provision and outcomes for children.

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Inspection activities

 This inspection took place following the risk assessment process.  The inspector held a meeting with the provider and registered individual.  The inspector observed the quality of staff's teaching and the impact this has on children's learning and development.  The inspector completed a joint observation with the provider.  The inspector spoke to parents and children during the inspection.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is inadequate

Safeguarding is ineffective. Leaders do not ensure staff have sufficient knowledge of safeguarding matters. For example, staff do not know what to do if anything affects their ongoing suitability, including through their associations. They do not have a secure understanding of current safeguarding matters. For instance, they do not know the indicators that children may be at risk of being exposed to extreme ideas. Leaders do not ensure risks are adequately assessed in the environment to help identify and minimise all hazards to children. Although they ensure there are sufficient staff to meet the required adult-to-child ratios, they do not make sure that staff are always adequately deployed to effectively supervise children in the outside space. For example, staff do not adequately supervise children's play when they jump off logs, play behind bushes, and run up and down ramps. This compromises children's safety. Self-evaluation is not effective. For

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is inadequate

example, leaders do not sufficiently reflect on the pattern of accidents that occur to identify improvements to help keep children safe. Leaders ensure that there are enough staff with first-aid qualifications working in the nursery. They hold regular meetings with staff to discuss their practice and identify some further training to help staff improve their skills. However, the quality of teaching still varies and outcomes for children are not good. Leaders suitably monitor children's progress and seek support from other professionals for their specific needs.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment requires improvement

Staff do not always support all children's individual learning needs and evolving interests. For example, they do not interact with them as children develop their imaginary role-play ideas in the garden, such as being superheroes. Younger children do not consistently have opportunities to develop their growing physical skills further, such as walking. Staff build children's communication and language skills well. For instance, they ask children questions to help them think for themselves and sing nursery rhymes with actions to babies. Staff provide regular opportunities to involve parents in their children's learning. For example, they have daily discussions and offer an online system, website and social media page. This helps parents to continue their children's learning at home.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are inadequate

The weaknesses in safeguarding have a significant impact on children's safety and welfare. Staff do not consistently provide children with clear guidance and explanations to help them manage their behaviour. For example, they do not intervene quickly when children snatch sticks from others and run around the garden with them. As a result, behaviour issues and injuries to others arise. Staff support children's understanding of healthy lifestyles. For instance, they provide nutritious options at meal times.

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Outcomes for children require improvement

Children learn a range of skills but do not reach their full potential from their unique starting points. At times, they lack interest and concentration in the activities staff plan for them. Children build their mathematical development well. For example, they investigate if different sized shells fit into lids of containers. They have opportunities to explore a wide range of materials and textures during their play. Children build their independence, such as serving their own food and using knives and forks.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY408269 Local authority Greenwich Inspection number 1083744 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 42 Number of children on roll 74 Name of registered person Thames Tiddlers Nursery Limited

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reference number

Date of previous inspection 11 February 2014 Telephone number 02088569437

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Thames Tiddlers Nursery registered in 2010 and operates from a mobile cabin within the grounds of the Post 16 Campus in Shooter's Hill, in the London Borough of Greenwich. Opening hours are from 8am to 6pm on Monday to Friday for 50 weeks of the year. It receives funding to provide free early education for children aged two, three and four years. The nursery adopts the Reggio Emilia approach.

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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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