Farm View Day Nursery

Farm View Day Nursery Loddon Court Farm, Beech Hill Road, Spencers Wood, Reading, Berkshire, RG7 1HT

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 2 August 2017 23 October 2014

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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

 Systems for self-evaluation are superb. Leaders successfully include the opinions of staff, parents and children. For example, they completed a project to improve children's outdoor experiences and fully involved parents in creating an inspiring play area.  Observation, planning and assessment processes are exceptionally rigorous. Staff know the children remarkably well and plan activities from their immediate interests. They are skilled in knowing how children learn best, to challenge and extend their learning. Children make outstanding progress in all areas of learning.  Staff support children incredibly well to ensure their ideas are taken into account. For example, children have an exceptionally strong voice. Their views are sought through forum meetings, where they make decisions and share their thoughts and ideas.  Children demonstrate high levels of confidence, emotional security and self-esteem.

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This provision is outstanding

Excellent settling-in procedures help them get to know staff. For example, staff visit children and their families in their homes. This supports children to develop incredibly secure attachments with their special person from the outset.  Leaders and staff are excellent role models. They set high behavioural expectations. Children behave superbly well. They are extremely polite and respectful to each other.  Children who have special educational needs and/or disabilities are supported incredibly well through superb partnerships with parents and professionals to ensure they flourish.

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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

 continue to reflect on, and enhance, the highly effective monitoring of children's progress to target the excellent teaching even more precisely.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the activities, the quality of teaching and supervision of children, throughout the setting.  The inspector held discussions with the leadership team and spoke with children and staff at appropriate times throughout the inspection.  The inspector looked at a range of documentation, including staff suitability checks; self-assessment information; children's observation, assessment and planning records; and documentation linked to monitoring children's progress.  The inspector took into account the views of parents spoken to on the day.  The inspector conducted a joint observation of staff practice and discussed this with the manager.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. Staff have an excellent understanding of child protection issues. The leadership team implements effective policies which are reviewed regularly. Leaders share these with staff and parents to ensure they support children's well-being consistently. Leaders and staff have worked exceptionally hard since the last inspection to raise the quality of care and education. The well-qualified staff work superbly well as a team and are motivated to continue with their professional development. For example, recent training has focused staff to critically reflect on their teaching practices. Leaders monitor children's progress especially well. They meticulously identify any weaknesses in learning and act quickly to close the gaps. Staff have identified the potential to continually improve on these assessment systems to further enrich the quality of the provision.

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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. Staff promote children's early literacy skills tremendously well. For example, children have great fun as they learn to recognise and identify letters and sounds. Staff expertly motivate children. For example, they really challenge children to make decisions on whether the objects in the game begin with the sounds they are seeking. Staff model language for babies and younger children incredibly well. For example, babies quickly copy words they hear and include them in their play. Staff extend their short sentences skilfully, introducing new words into their vocabulary.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children enjoy a highly stimulating environment, indoors and outdoors. The excellent organisation of resources encourages children to develop their learning independently as they play. Children are incredibly self-sufficient. For example, they serve themselves at mealtimes and take a full part in clearing away their plates and cutlery. Staff provide superb opportunities for children to develop their physical skills. They have plenty of opportunities to play outdoors and take part in regular woodland activities.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

All children make outstanding progress, given what they know when they start. Children are very confident and motivated. They concentrate at an excellent level, in advance of their age and stage of development. Children are articulate communicators. For example, they give staff clear instructions on how to build structures using positional language. Children develop an excellent understanding of the ways they can find information from books. For example, they compare illustrations in factual books and discuss the similarities and differences between animals from the natural world. All children gain excellent skills that prepare them extremely well for the next stage in their learning and going to school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 148616 Local authority Wokingham Inspection number 1070366 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 1 - 4 Total number of places 44 Number of children on roll 40 Name of registered person Farm View Day Nursery Limited

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Date of previous inspection 23 October 2014 Telephone number 01189 887889

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Farm View Day Nursery registered in 1999. It is located at Spencers Wood, in Reading, Berkshire. The nursery opens each weekday from 7.30am to 6pm, for 51 weeks of the year. The nursery receives funding for the provision of free early education for children aged two, three and four years. There are 15 members of staff working with the children. Of these, nine hold a relevant qualification at level 3 and one holds a qualification at level 2.

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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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