Early Learning Childcare

Early Learning Childcare 210-212 Chapel Street, Salford, Manchester, M3 6BY

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 20 March 2017 28 November 2016

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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 quality of teaching is excellent. Staff plan a wide range of activities that are exciting and challenging. As a result, children are highly enthusiastic about their learning and make the best possible progress.  Staff identify at the very earliest opportunity, when children are at risk of falling behind in their development. They use detailed tracking information for individual and groups of children and consider what a ‘good level of development’ looks like for children in their local area. As a result, children receive timely interventions and support when they need it.  The extremely well organised key person system and strong partnership work with parents ensures that there is a cohesive approach to children’s learning.  Staff have created an exciting, stimulating and accessible environment that children delight in exploring. As a result, children are becoming increasingly inquisitive and

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This provision is outstanding

independent.  Staff are excellent role models. They provide clear guidance on how children should behave. As a result, children’s behaviour is exemplary.  Leaders and managers use highly effective systems to identify improvements that need to be made to the Nursery. As a result, rapid improvement has been made since the last inspection.

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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

 involve staff further in the evaluation of practice, for example, by using their views from recent training, to finely tune and inform future development plans.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector toured the Nursery and spoke with parents to obtain their views.  The inspector observed staff's interactions with the children in each of the playrooms.  The inspector reviewed a wide range of documentation including policies and procedures and children's planning.  The inspector met with leaders and managers and reviewed the Nursery's self- evaluation.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is highly effective. Staff are knowledgeable about the signs of abuse and meticulously report safeguarding concerns. Leaders and managers regularly meet with staff, to discuss children’s care and welfare. This helps to keep children safe. Staff are well qualified and have regular opportunities to attend training. There is scope to involve staff even further in the evaluation of practice. There are rigorous systems in place to monitor staff’s performance. Staff practice with the children is excellent. Leaders and managers work very closely with staff to gather detailed information about children’s progress. They work tirelessly with parents and other professionals to ensure that children’s individual care and learning needs are extremely well met and that support for children is well targeted to enable all children to make very good progress. Leaders and managers have addressed all actions since the last inspection and have used self-evaluation and detailed

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

action plans to excel in the care, learning and support they offer to children in their care.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The quality of teaching is excellent. Staff plan numerous exciting activities and resources that engage and motivate the children. For example, pre-school children used hammers to break ice in the water tray. Staff extended this learning by discussing the different pressures that could be applied to crack the ice. In the two-year-old room, children delighted in learning about facial features and their feelings, through discussion with staff during story time. This promoted children’s personal, social and emotional development very well. Young babies take great pleasure in seeking out soft toys from baskets that are covered in webs of wool. This supports them to explore and develop their fine motor skills from an early age. Staff seize every opportunity to support children’s learning and as a result, children are extremely well prepared for the next steps in their learning and eventually school. Staff use very good teaching strategies to help children to learn how to

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

form letters correctly. Young children enjoy the plentiful mark making opportunities available to them which helps to develop their early writing skills. Staff regularly observe and assess children’s progress. They meticulously evaluate each activity to help inform future practice. Staff know when to extend children’s learning and when to allow children time to think things through and investigate. As a result, there is an excellent balance of adult-led and child-initiated activities available to the children.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children are emotionally secure. This is because staff have developed superb relationships with the children in their care and are highly responsive to their individual needs. From the onset, staff gather detailed information about children’s starting points. Activities begin with a focus on getting to know the child and progress to supporting the prime and specific areas of learning. This helps to ensure that children settle quickly at the Nursery and that activities match their needs from the very beginning. Children enjoy a varied and balanced diet and have regular access to outdoor play. The indoor playroom that contains climbing apparatus, helps to support children’s physical development very well. Staff have implemented clear rules and boundaries and have involved older children in devising these. This helps to support children to feel safe at the nursery. The nursery environment and resources reflect a wide range of people in society. Children enjoy looking at their

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

own unique ‘family books’ that staff have created with parents. This supports children to recognise the similarities and differences between themselves and others. Children learn about the world through growing activities. They enjoy planting seedlings and exploring the real tulips in the sand tray and home corner. This helps them to learn about nature.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Leaders and managers have an excellent understanding of the statutory framework for the early years foundation stage. They meticulously monitor children’s progress and analyse information about the different groups of children that attend the nursery. This helps them to support staff to plan purposeful learning experiences for the children. Children are very well prepared for school. This is because, for example, staff talk to the children about the transition to school, plan activities to support this transition and ensure that children can manage their own personal care needs. They share useful information with children’s future carers, which helps to inform practice beyond that of the nursery. Children make very good progress taking account of their starting points. Where children are working below the age range typical for their age, staff have implemented strategies to help them to catch up. As a result, outcomes for children are very good.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY456161 Local authority Salford Inspection number 1086005 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 0 - 8 Total number of places 65 Number of children on roll 56 Name of registered person Early Learning Childcare Limited

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Date of previous inspection 28 November 2016 Telephone number 01618319831

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Early Learning Childcare registered in 2012. The nursery employs 12 members of childcare staff including the manager. Of these, two hold an appropriate early years qualification at level 5 and ten hold qualifications at level 2 or level 3. The nursery opens from 7.30am until 6pm, Monday to Friday, all year round, except for bank holidays and Christmas. The nursery also offers out of school and holiday club provisions. The nursery provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children. It supports children with English as an additional language.

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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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