Sunshine Pre-School

Sunshine Pre-School School House, East Dundry Road, Whitchurch, Bristol, BS14 0LL

p.1

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 11 July 2017 21 May 2015

p.1

This inspection: Outstanding 1

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Outstanding 1

p.1

This inspection: Outstanding 1

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1

p.1

This inspection: Outstanding 1

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1

p.1

This provision is outstanding

 Inspirational leadership empowers staff, especially in consistently improving their excellent quality of teaching and professional skills. There is exemplary analysis of data to identify pertinent training, which greatly influences children's learning. For example, there has been significant improvement in children's achievements following the literacy project.  Staff have very high expectations and support children exceptionally well. They are highly responsive to children's needs and ideas, using precise assessment of their progress. The manager monitors children's individual learning extremely successfully and addresses any gaps in children's learning promptly and with expertise. All children make excellent progress from their starting points.  Children have excellent self-esteem. Staff consistently offer praise and celebrate their achievements extremely effectively. They are highly respectful of children's play, for

p.1

This provision is outstanding

example, providing a five-minute warning before they tidy away and giving them every opportunity to finish or return to their play. Familiar routines help children feel very safe and secure.  There is excellent partnership working at all levels to maintain a highly consistent approach to children's care, learning and development. Staff provide parents with extensive information about the setting, their children's achievements and ideas for home learning. Staff regularly invite them to share their skills with the children.

p.1

What the setting needs to do to improve further

To further improve the quality of the early years provision the provider should:

p.2

What the setting needs to do to improve further

 review the organisation of group activities to support younger and less-able children even better.

p.2

Inspection activities

 The inspector observed staff's interactions and discussed their learning as children played throughout the pre-school.  The inspector completed a joint observation with the owner/manager and discussed the arrangements for staff's professional development.  The inspector considered the views of parents spoken to at inspection and their written comments.  The inspector sampled documentation, including children's assessment records, the pre-school's self-evaluation and staff's suitability arrangements.  The inspector spoke with leaders, staff and children at convenient times during the inspection.

p.2

Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. Staff are highly vigilant, supervise children exceptionally well and conduct extremely robust risk assessments for the setting and outings. Leaders and staff have an excellent knowledge of their responsibilities to report any concerns about a child. There are excellent arrangements to ensure adults are suitable for their role and continue to be so. Highly effective leadership encourages the dedicated staff team to continuously improve their skills and evaluate their teaching, activities and children's learning. Incisive evaluation and highly accurate action plans improve outcomes for children. For example, they have recently introduced more precise tracking of different groups of children to influence their excellent planning even further.

p.3

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff have an excellent knowledge of what children know and can do, and support them highly effectively to meet their full potential. They have a comprehensive understanding of how children learn and plan exceptionally well to challenge children's learning intuitively. Staff plan highly effectively to support children's next steps successfully. For example, children learn to recognise their names and identify familiar letters and sounds when they create personal jigsaws. Staff offer excellent support and encouragement. They challenge children highly effectively, for example, extending the activity to use their last name and other familiar words. Excellent questioning helps children predict, solve problems and develop language extremely successfully. On occasion, group sizes do not always support younger and less-able children to extend their learning more fully.

p.3

Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children's behaviour is exemplary. They are extremely kind to each other, polite and helpful. For example, children offer to hold their friend's cup while they pour their drink to avoid spillages. Staff help children exceptionally well to label their emotions and question children highly effectively to help find solutions. Children very confidently decide a tickle or a funny face would make a friend happy. Children thrive in the opportunity to have responsibilities for tasks, such as counting how many children there are and helping to lay tables for snack time.

p.3

Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children make very rapid progress and gain excellent skills for their move to school. They are highly motivated to learn and are excellent thinkers. For example, they show great interest in how paperclips work, testing and manipulating them to complete the task successfully. Children are excellent at leading their own discoveries. They learn to assess risk for themselves, for example, how to position blocks and planks successfully in their designs so they can balance easily and safely along their obstacle course. Children are extremely confident at testing their ideas, such as how to jump on the plank and toss the beanbag safely.

p.3

Setting details

Unique reference number EY224537 Local authority Bristol City Inspection number 1091387 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 2 - 4 Total number of places 21 Number of children on roll 43 Name of registered person Karon Tracy Nichol

p.4

reference number

Date of previous inspection 21 May 2015 Telephone number 07952929661 or 0117 9774170

p.4

reference number

Sunshine Pre-School registered in 2003. The pre-school is one of three run by the same provider. The pre-school receives funding for the provision of free early education for two, three and four-year-old children. The pre-school opens five days a week during school term times, from 8.30am to 4.30pm. The owner/manager holds early years professional status and is supported by five staff who all hold early years qualifications at level 3.

p.4

reference number

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.

p.4

reference number

procedures set out in the guidance ‘Complaints procedure: raising concerns and making complaints about Ofsted’, which is available from Ofsted’s website: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ofsted. If you would like Ofsted to send you a copy of the guidance, please telephone 0300 123 4234, or email enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk. achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages. It regulates and inspects childcare and children's social care, and inspects the Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service (Cafcass), schools, colleges, initial teacher training, work-based learning and skills training, adult and community learning, and education and training in prisons and other secure establishments. It assesses council children’s services, and inspects services for looked after children, safeguarding and child protection.

p.4

reference number

If you would like a copy of this document in a different format, such as large print or Braille, please telephone 0300 123 4234, or email enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk. You may reuse this information (not including logos) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence. To view this licence, visit www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/, write to the Information Policy Team, The National Archives, Kew, London TW9 4DU, or email: psi@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk .

p.5

reference number

Interested in our work? You can subscribe to our website for news, information and updates at www.ofsted.gov.uk/user.

p.5

reference number

T: 0300 123 4234 Textphone: 0161 618 8524 E: enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk W: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ofsted

p.5