Little Wonders Preschool Parkway

Little Wonders Preschool Parkway Castle Playing Fields, School Lane, HAVERHILL, Suffolk, CB9 9DE

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 12 May 2017 23 January 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

 Since the last inspection, the management has raised standards significantly, supporting staff to enhance their teaching skills. Children enjoy excellent opportunities to explore mathematics outside and routinely use everyday technology.  Reflective processes are exemplary and focus on every area of practice. Teaching and learning opportunities are now reviewed daily as staff appraise each other's work. Evaluation has led to an excellent redesign of the environment, inside and outside. Staff interact with children and promote their learning to the optimum.  Staff provide an excellent learning environment that is rich with varied resources, such as imaginary play huts and living willow dens that help to prompt children's interaction. Children investigate independently, trying out their ideas to help make sense of the world around them.  Staff are skilful teachers who engage and motivate children to learn through play.

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This provision is outstanding

Behaviour is extremely good and children concentrate and succeed in tasks. Staff monitor progress meticulously, identifying the smallest change in a child's ongoing development. In partnership with parents, staff successfully close any learning gaps. Every child is ready for the next stage in their learning.  The management and staff work very effectively with other professionals to provide additional support for children who have special educational needs and/or disabilities.

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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

 monitor the impact of training and ongoing development opportunities closely to maintain the excellent outcomes for children.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of teaching during activities and assessed the impact this has on children's learning.  The inspector completed a joint evaluation of an activity and discussed this with the managers.  The inspector held a number of discussions with the managers, staff and children.  The inspector looked at relevant documentation, including evidence of the suitability of persons working with children. The inspector also discussed with the managers and staff how they reflect on their practice.  The inspector took account of the views of parents through email feedback and discussions during the inspection process.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Staff are exceptionally vigilant to possible instances of discrimination. They are proactive in reflecting different family cultures. All staff know what action to take when concerned for a child's welfare. Children learn right from wrong and how to express themselves if they feel unsafe. Safeguarding is effective. Staff work in an exceptional manner with children and families. They attend appointments with them and work with other professionals to enhance their skills and promote children's progress. Parents and professionals report on the remarkably rapid progress that children make. Managers and staff continually strive for excellence. They have identified that the current monitoring of child development, following staff training, could be even more precisely evaluated.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Assessment for learning is excellent. Accurate observations are made by each child's key person and used to inform planning. Exciting activities and provision of excellent everyday tasks extend children's knowledge and skills very well. Staff learn from the different viewpoints of parents and other professionals while sharing children's records. Children are keen to help record their achievements. They take photographs and talk about what they want to find out. Children are very competent communicators. For example, while exploring sea creatures and natural resources, including seaweed, they chat avidly about seaside holidays. Children inquisitively ask questions and use reference books or the computer to look for answers. Children and staff are exceptionally enthusiastic as they share ideas and organise play spontaneously, based on previous learning experiences.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children thoroughly enjoy learning about the wider world. They develop their self-help skills while walking locally, visiting nearby primary schools and welcoming visitors into the setting. Children extend their physical skills exceptionally well. They develop core muscle strength using hoops, slides and climbing frames and increase small-muscle skills as they manipulate dough or use the computer mouse. Other more innovative ways they have achieved this include taking turns to direct a firefighter's hose onto the playing field. Children greatly enjoy the challenge of getting into full body splash suits and working out how to pull up the zip. The suits enable them to become fully involved in messy play, creating mud pies or exploring flowing water walls without worrying about their clothes.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

All children extend their language for communication, develop high levels of self-esteem and quickly become competent in managing personal tasks. They are making extremely good progress in readiness for their eventual move on to school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 251431 Local authority Suffolk Inspection number 1090282 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 - 4 Total number of places 28 Number of children on roll 47 Name of registered person Busy Bee Pre-School (Haverhill) Committee

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Date of previous inspection 23 January 2015 Telephone number 01440 705 800

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Little Wonders Preschool Parkway registered in 2012. It is managed by a voluntary committee. The pre-school employs eight members of childcare staff. Of these, six hold appropriate early years qualifications, including one member of staff with early years professional status and one member of staff who holds qualified teacher status. The pre- school opens Monday to Friday during term times. Sessions are from 9am until midday and from midday until 3pm. The pre-school provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.

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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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