Golden Valley House Day Nursery

Golden Valley House Day Nursery 18 Oaksey Grove, Nailsea, BRISTOL, BS48 2TP

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 11 April 2017 26 May 2015

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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 staff's interactions with children is of an exceptional quality. Children investigate and explore continually. They are confident and happy and their behaviour is impressive. Children make fantastic progress in readiness for school.  Staff are expert at watching children and make excellent assessments which inform children's experiences. Staff use tracking to identify any gaps in children's development, so that they can help them catch up fast. This fully promotes children's progress across all areas of learning.  Staff and management work incredibly closely with other professionals. This helps to ensure children experience continuity of their learning and care needs. This is highly effective for children who have special educational needs.  The manager uses very well-considered supervision and appraisal meetings to help identify training programmes which push forward staff's professional development. This

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This provision is outstanding

has a brilliant impact on outcomes for children.  The manager and staff have an in-depth understanding of the different ways in which children learn. Staff have high expectations and children rise to the challenge. All children are exceptionally well catered for, including those learning English as an additional language.

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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

 continue to build even further on all opportunities for children to extend their early reading skills.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed staff's interactions with children across the setting.  The inspector spoke with parents and children and took their views into account.  The inspector looked at documentation, including the safeguarding policy and children's assessments.  The inspector conducted a joint observation and a leadership and management meeting with the manager.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The manager and staff have an excellent understanding of safeguarding procedures and child protection issues. The manager evaluates the setting exceptionally well and continually makes very effective improvements. For example, staff have pushed mathematical conversations with children to the forefront of outdoor activities to ensure children are making the best possible progress in this area. The manager plans to improve the setting further by focusing on reading and publishing a collection of children's stories. Children develop an excellent range of skills in readiness for school. Relationships with other professionals are strong and highly effective. This helps children experience an exceptionally well-informed understanding of their needs.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Children have lots of opportunities to explore and experiment. For example, staff help children work out how to transport running water from one end of a stream to another by using pipes and watering cans. Staff are highly skilled at following children's ideas. For example, children use bricks and sand to build a home for a mermaid and staff introduce real plaster so that the construction remains solid and children can return and improve on their designs. Children stay on task and get really involved. For example, staff encourage children to build a space rocket, dress up as space men, and use pastels and chalks to design their own planets.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children's behaviour is exceptional, they are constantly settled, happy and highly involved. They spend as much time as they would like outside and get lots of fresh air and exercise. For example, children use real hammers and nails in an outdoor woodwork cabin, then collect 'fuel' and build a fire. Staff are in tune with children's emotional needs and keep them at the forefront of everything they do. Children make very strong relationships with their special key person and this gives them an excellent platform from which to thrive and grow. Staff have a real understanding of their local community and use it to give children interesting opportunities. For example, staff collect unique art materials at a local reclamation yard, and display children's work there.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

All children, including those who need additional targeted support, make exceptional progress. They are confident, independent and exceptionally eager to learn new skills. Children continually make exciting discoveries as they play. For example, they find a wide variety of interesting insects as they dig in the mud and talk in great detail about the needs of living things. Children have exceptionally warm, caring relationships with each other and are extremely kind and respectful.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY389776 Local authority North Somerset Inspection number 1093761 Type of provision Full-time provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register Age range of children 2 - 7 Total number of places 35 Number of children on roll 75 Name of registered person Andrew McCarthy and Emma McCarthy Partnership

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Date of previous inspection 26 May 2015 Telephone number 01275853304

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Golden Valley House Day Nursery registered in 2009. The nursery opens from 8am to 6pm Monday to Thursday and on Fridays to 5.30pm. There are 10 members of staff, of whom seven who hold appropriate early years qualifications, including one who has qualified teacher status. One of the owners holds early years professional status. The nursery receives funding to provide free early education for children aged two, three and four years and also provides early years pupil premium funding.

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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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