Beckington Pre-School

Beckington Pre-School Baptist Church Hall, Beckington, Frome, Somerset, BA11 6TD

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 7 June 2017 23 January 2015

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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

 Children's safety is compromised as leaders do not fully understand their legal responsibilities. They have failed to notify Ofsted of changes to the committee and undertake background checks on all staff and committee members.  Staff do not obtain all of the required information about each child from parents or carers, such as who has parental responsibility for the child.  Staff do not always consider children's next steps in learning when planning activities, to ensure that children are helped to make good progress across all areas of learning.  Staff do not seek detailed information from parents about their children's achievements at home, to support a consistent approach and to help inform their planning.  Self-evaluation procedures, including processes to monitor the delivery of the educational programmes and children's progress, are not sufficient to identify all weaknesses and effectively lead good practice.

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It has the following strengths

 Children's health is supported successfully. For example, children enjoy being active in the fresh air and eagerly explore the well-resourced outdoor area, developing their physical skills and playing imaginatively with their friends.  Staff build really beneficial relationships with children and parents. Children are very happy and settled, and enjoy their time at the pre-school.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

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

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Due Date

 provide Ofsted with information about all committee members and all staff working on the premises, including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check for each person, so that suitability checks can be completed 21/06/2017

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Due Date

 obtain and record all of the required information for each child, including information about any person who has parental responsibility. 21/06/2017

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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

 make good use of information about what children need to do next in their development to plan activities which provide more challenge  encourage parents to share more information about what their children are learning at home, to help plan more precisely for their learning  develop procedures for self-evaluation to ensure targets for improvement are based on rigorous monitoring of practice and enhance processes to monitor the delivery of the educational programmes, including the assessments of children's progress.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed activities in the play room and the outside learning environment, and conducted a joint observation with the manager.  The inspector held a meeting with the manager. She spoke to staff and children throughout the inspection when appropriate.  The inspector looked at children's assessment and planning documentation, the setting's risk assessment and safety records.  The inspector checked evidence of suitability and qualifications of staff working within the pre-school, the provider's evidence of self-evaluation and a range of other documentation.  The inspector took account the views of parents spoken to on the day and by reading a number of comments on questionnaires given to the manager.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is inadequate

The arrangements for safeguarding are not effective. Leaders have not followed appropriate procedures to ensure suitability checks have been undertaken on those who hold positions of authority within the pre-school, such as committee members. Although they do not work directly with children, they have extended responsibilities, helping to run the provision and with regard to selection and recruitment of staff. Additionally, leaders have failed to complete the necessary checks to ensure all staff are suitable, before allowing them to care for children unsupervised. Nonetheless, staff are supported to keep informed of changes to legislation and guidance through training and regular staff meetings. They have a suitable understanding of child protection issues. They complete mandatory training, such as paediatric first-aid, to help them to promote the safety and welfare of children in their care. However, leaders do not carefully oversee the quality of

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is inadequate

the pre-school. Lack of monitoring of the educational programmes means that children do not receive sufficient challenge in their learning.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment requires improvement

Children enjoy their time in the pre-school. Staff set up the environment well, and this stimulates and motivates children to explore. Children are busy and play cooperatively in self-chosen activities. For example, they play imaginatively with sand and water, role-play cooking outside with their friends and acting out beach scenarios indoors. Overall staff support children well during their play, they ask them probing questions to encourage them to think, test out their ideas and develop their approach. For example as they complete puzzles, staff help them to problem solve and persevere. However, children do not benefit from the targeted challenges they require to continually progress well. Planning processes do not support key persons to share what children need to learn next with the all of the staff team, to focus teaching precisely in these areas.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are inadequate

Leaders do not do enough to keep children safe because they allow staff who have not had their suitability checked to care for the children. Key persons work closely with parents when children first start at the pre-school to ensure that they get to know children's needs and preferences. Overall, partnerships with parents are effective. Key persons provide parents regularly with information about children's care and learning during their time at the pre-school. However, the arrangements for encouraging parents to share information about their child's achievements at home are not always successful. Staff provide children with clear guidance and positive reinforcement on what is acceptable behaviour. Children are supported to make friends, and learn the importance of sharing and taking turns when playing.

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Outcomes for children require improvement

Children are making steady progress in their development. However, they are not yet making good progress as staff do not plan well enough to support gaps in children's learning to close quickly. Despite this, children enjoy group activities, they listen well to stories and eagerly join in with singing sessions, for instance, clapping a rhythm, recalling well-known phrases and joining in with actions. They follow hygiene practices and learn practical skills, such as washing their hands before meals, putting on their coats and tidying away toys. Older children are competent in some of the key skills required for school. For example, they know and write letters of their names, they recognise numbers and count confidently.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 142972 Local authority Somerset Inspection number 1089651 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 18 Number of children on roll 25 Name of registered person Beckington Pre School Committee

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Date of previous inspection 23 January 2015 Telephone number 01373 831492

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Beckington Pre-School registered in 1992. The pre-school employs four members of childcare staff, all of whom hold appropriate early years qualifications from level 2 to level 4. The pre-school opens on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9.20am until 3pm, and on Tuesday and Friday from 9.20am until 1.30pm, during school term time only. The pre-school provides funded early education for 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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