Worthen Pre-School

Worthen Pre-School The Village Hall, Worthen, Shrewsbury, SY5 9HT

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 20 July 2017 12 May 2014

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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

 Children are very confident and enthusiastic learners. They arrive happy and are quickly engaged in various interesting activities of their choice.  Staff promote children's communication and language skills well. They are very skilful in extending children's learning. For example, staff use open-ended questions with the children and give them opportunities to respond as they promote their learning.  The staff team works very well together. Their professional approach and inclusive practice fosters a positive environment which promotes equal opportunities for children.  Staff work well with the local school. For instance, children have daily opportunities to meet and mix with the older children for a cooked lunch. This helps prepare children well for their transition on to school.  Staff establish strong and effective partnerships. They build links with the local community, other professionals and early years settings that children attend to promote

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This provision is good

continuity for children's progress and well-being.  Staff are very good role models and children develop a secure understanding of acceptable behaviour. Children share, take turns and learn to respect each other.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 Systems for analysing the progress made by different groups of children are still being developed to enable the manager to fully monitor the progress made by all children.  The programme of professional development is not sharply focused on achieving outstanding teaching practice.

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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

 make better use of monitoring to ensure that different groups of children receive the support they need to achieve the highest possible levels  focus on the professional development of staff more precisely to raise the quality of teaching to an outstanding level across the pre-school.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of teaching during activities and assessed the impact this had on children's learning.  The inspector completed a joint evaluation of an activity with the manager.  The inspector spoke to parents and took account of their views through written feedback provided.  The inspector spoke to staff and children at appropriate times. She looked at relevant documentation and checked the suitability of staff and committee members working in the pre-school.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. Staff have a good knowledge of the safeguarding procedures to follow and who to contact to seek advice in the event of a concern. They help protect children's welfare and support them to remain safe and feel secure. The managers and staff regularly evaluate their practice, such as with daily discussions to reflect on the session. Staff use regular opportunities to review their action plans. They continue to make positive changes to improve children's learning outcomes, such as changing their planning to reflect in the moment. Partnerships with parents are strong. Parents comment that their children are very well prepared for the next stage in their learning, and communication between staff and themselves is excellent.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

Staff skilfully and successfully build on children's learning through play. For instance, when children show an interest in building, staff suggest using shaving foam as cement to place bricks together and attach wooden planks. Staff support children's communication skills well. They respectfully reinforce the correct pronunciation of words, such as during conversations to increase children's vocabulary effectively. Children develop a greater understanding of print and how print has meaning. For example, they use the road signs outside to practise safe 'driving', while using the stop sign and police or men working sign to help negotiate space and manoeuvre their bicycles and cars. Staff use careful questions to extend children's ideas and thinking. They offer praise and reinforce the use of new vocabulary, such as when they come across a new word within a storybook.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Children learn how to keep themselves healthy. They know they need protection from the sun when outside and manage this independently finding their hats and keeping these on. Children enjoy free choice of play outdoors or indoors and have lots of opportunities for physical exercise appropriate to their age. They learn to coordinate their bodies, for example, by balancing on bicycles or using the slide. Children know and understand about healthy eating. They talk about the goodness of eating fresh fruit and vegetables at snack time and the benefits of drinking milk and water. The key-person system is very effective. Staff know and understand the needs of their individual children well. Children and staff build strong bonds as they develop their emotional well-being while they play happily together and have fun.

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Outcomes for children are good

All children make good progress in relation to their starting points. Older children gain positive skills to help prepare them for school. For example, they learn good early reading and writing skills. They confidently write and recognise their names using a variety of different materials. Children enjoy investigating and participate in interesting experiments to explore, such as creating and reading treasure maps to navigate around their environment.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 224229 Local authority Shropshire Inspection number 1087690 Type of provision Sessional provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register Age range of children 2 - 5 Total number of places 24 Number of children on roll 23 Name of registered person Worthen Pre-School Committee

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Date of previous inspection 12 May 2014 Telephone number 07759 685 779

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Worthen Pre-School registered in 1992 and is located in Worthen, Shrewsbury. The pre- school opens Monday, Wednesday and Friday during term time only. Sessions are from 9am until 3pm. The pre-school employs five members of childcare staff. Of these, three hold appropriate early years qualifications at levels 2, 3 and 6. 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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