Chapel Lane Playgroup

Chapel Lane Playgroup The Free Church, Chapel Lane, Desford, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE9 9GE

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 13 March 2017 31 October 2016

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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

 Staff monitor children's individual development and successfully plan for their future learning. All children are making good progress in relation to their starting points.  Children's emotional security is enhanced. Staff create a warm atmosphere and are very welcoming to children and their families. Staff find out as much as they can about children's needs and their parents' wishes.  The manager involves her staff in identifying their individual qualities and the playgroup's strengths and areas they can improve. They work together to make improvements and promote positive outcomes for children and their families.  Since the last inspection, staff have a attended training in safeguarding children and paediatric first aid. In-house training and team meetings also ensure staff are kept fully up to date with changes in childcare practices.  Children's behaviour is very good. Staff consistently implement good behaviour

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This provision is good

management strategies. They ensure children fully understand consequences for their behaviour and what is expected of them.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 At times, staff do not always make the most of opportunities to extend the children's thinking skills and further support their developing communication and language.  Occasionally, staff miss opportunities to encourage children to work together and help one another, especially in small-group activities.

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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

 use a wider range of teaching strategies to extend children's thinking skills and further support their developing communication and language  extend opportunities for children to work together to support them to learn how to help one another.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of teaching during activities indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact this has on children's learning.  The inspector completed joint observations with the manager.  The inspector held meetings with the manager and her deputy. She looked at relevant documentation and evidence of the suitability and qualifications of staff working in the setting.  The inspector spoke with a number of parents and took account of their views, as well as the written views of other parents.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

The manager and her staff have made significant improvements since the last inspection. This has had a positive impact upon children's care, safety and learning. The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. The manager and her staff fully understand their individual roles and responsibilities to keep children safe from abuse and neglect. Staff recruitment is thorough and checks, such as gaps in employment history, are explored to ensure all staff are suitable to work with children. The manager monitors the effectiveness of all aspects of the provision. She identifies training that will help to ensure all her staff are equipped with the skills and knowledge to provide good quality childcare. Parents are extremely complimentary about the quality of care provided at the playgroup. They comment on how much progress their children make, especially with regard to their communication and language skills. Parents strongly value the care and warmth the staff

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

show each and every day towards their children.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

Children learn in a stimulating environment. They access activities that relate to their individual interests and next steps in their learning. Staff observe children as they play and make assessments about what they know and can do. This information is then successfully used to inform future planning. Children are provided with a good variety of activities that are both adult- and child-led. Staff successfully demonstrate to children how to use the resources on offer. Children are helped to recall their experiences. For example, staff ask them about bulbs they have planted and what they know about the growing process. Children enjoy sharing events in their own lives. They create gifts for Mother's Day, talking about their mummies' favourite colours, and staff help them to think about kind gestures and how they can make others happy. Children confidently create their own games and share strong friendships with their peers.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Children are happy on arrival, keen to see their friends and engage in the activities on offer. Children share warm relationships with staff who they love to involve in their games. Children receive consistently strong messages about how to lead a healthy lifestyle. They are involved in activities to help them understand which foods are good for us and those that are not so good. Staff provide healthy snacks, children spend time at the snack bar socially interacting with one another and with staff. Staff help them to recall what they have previously learnt. For example, staff ask them why milk is good for us. Children articulately share that they know that milk is good for their teeth and it helps to make our bones strong.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children make good progress. They really enjoy their time at the playgroup. Children develop good skills for their future learning and in readiness for the move on to school. Children confidently lead their own learning and readily communicate with their peers, staff and visitors to the playgroup.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 226377 Local authority Leicestershire Inspection number 1078103 Type of provision Sessional provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 2 - 5 Total number of places 24 Number of children on roll 24 Name of registered person Gillian Whatsize

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reference number

Date of previous inspection 31 October 2016 Telephone number 0772 5209837

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Chapel Lane Playgroup was registered in 2000. The playgroup employs four members of childcare staff. Of these, three hold appropriate early years qualifications ranging from level 3 to level 6. The playgroup opens from Monday to Friday during term time only. Sessions are from 9am until midday. The playgroup supports children who speak English as an additional language and children who have special educational needs and/or disabilities.

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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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