Newton Abbot Preschool

Newton Abbot Preschool The Green Rooms, Fisher Road, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 2NB

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 5 June 2017 14 April 2015

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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 have a good knowledge of children's abilities and interests. They use this information effectively to plan a wide range of engaging and challenging activities which motivate children and help to develop a positive attitude to learning.  Overall, the manager and staff assess children's development and track their individual progress well. They develop good partnerships with parents to identify next steps in children's learning, to enable consistency in the experiences they provide. All children, including those who have developmental delays, make good progress across all areas.  Children are confident and have good self-esteem. They settle in quickly and develop close relationships with staff, which supports them to build friendships with peers.  The manager is committed to maintaining good outcomes for children through rigorous self-evaluation. For example, she has reviewed the level of challenge staff provide for

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This provision is good

children to match activities more closely with children's next steps in learning.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 At times, the manager and staff do not give children enough opportunities to think about and express their ideas, such as during group activities.  The manager does not routinely monitor the progress that different groups of children make in enough detail to enable her to recognise swiftly any patterns in learning and identify how to improve outcomes for children even further.

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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

 support the staff to make better use of opportunities to encourage children to solve problems and think for themselves, and to talk and share their ideas  continue to develop systems for monitoring the progress that different groups of children make, to identify and target more sharply any patterns in learning.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed staff's interactions with children and children's participation in group activities.  The inspector carried out a joint observation with the manager to evaluate the quality of teaching and learning.  The inspector took account of the views of parents and children spoken to on the day of inspection.  The inspector held discussions with staff, the manager and provider at appropriate times during the inspection.  The inspector sampled a range of documentation, including self-evaluation, children's learning records and staff's training certificates.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

Safeguarding is effective. The manager and staff have a good understanding of safeguarding issues and are clear about the procedures to follow in the event of any concerns about a child's welfare. They inform each other of their movements around the setting to support their close supervision of children and meet their individual needs. The manager provides good coaching for staff and routinely offers professional development opportunities to build on their existing knowledge and skills. For example, staff report that following training, they now set more realistic targets for children through smaller and more achievable learning outcomes to track their progress more accurately.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

Staff spend time getting to know all children well to meet their individual needs. For example, they display information about children's stage of learning so they can adapt their teaching and planned activities to benefit each child. Overall, staff support children to learn good communication and language skills. For example, they clearly model sounds and initiate conversation with children as they discuss what children have been doing at home. Children enjoy exploring different textures, such as working out how water and sand feel and how sand moves when it is out of the water. They enthusiastically copy staff to make marks in paint with their fingers, and staff make good use of this, such as to help children form and recognise different shapes and letters.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Children are self-assured and staff help them to manage their personal needs well. For example, they encourage the younger children to dress themselves. Staff build on children's eagerness to develop independence in other ways, such as choosing a child to be the 'special helper' each day. Children are kind and thoughtful. For instance, they offer to help their friends and spontaneously cuddle each other. Many children use good manners, for example, saying 'please' and 'thank you' appropriately without prompting. Children confidently assess risks in their play and know how to keep themselves safe. For example, children considered how to get down from a raised platform before deciding to lower themselves down carefully as they held on to a railing.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children develop good skills to support them in their future learning and the move on to school. They demonstrate high levels of concentration and involvement in their chosen activities for extended periods. For example, the older children listened carefully as a member of staff read a book, and they then drew a picture of their favourite part of the story. Children are creative and imaginative, such as when pretending to be pirates as they play on the ship in the garden and make 'cakes' from play dough.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 106185 Local authority Devon Inspection number 1098947 Type of provision Full-time provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register Age range of children 2 - 4 Total number of places 20 Number of children on roll 19 Name of registered person Newton Abbot Pre School Committee

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Date of previous inspection 14 April 2015 Telephone number 0797 1708024

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Newton Abbot Preschool registered in 1999 and is located in Newton Abbot, Devon. It operates Monday to Thursday, from 9am to 3pm, during term time only. The pre-school employs a manager, who holds a relevant degree qualification, and two members of staff who hold relevant childcare qualifications at level 1 and level 3. It receives funding to provide free early education for children aged two, three and four years.

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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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