Futurepath Childcare

Futurepath Childcare Unit 10-12 Chatmohr Estate, Crawley Hill West Wellow, Rosmey, Hampshire, SO516AP

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 19 September 2017 Not applicable

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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 make good progress from their starting points. Staff use children's individual interests to motivate them to learn. For example, children were enthralled when they saw deer in a field adjacent to the nursery garden. Staff encouraged children to count the deer and talked about what they saw to extend their mathematical and language development.  Since registration, the nominated person has effectively evaluated and improved the management of the nursery and the support and training available to staff. For example, they have appointed a development manager who has clear aims to continually improve the good teaching practice.  Staff support children's good health effectively. Children plant and harvest vegetables in the nursery garden, such as courgettes, which they give to the chef to use in healthy meals.  Staff establish effective partnerships with parents to meet children's individual needs

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This provision is good

and involve them in children's care and learning.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 Managers do not monitor how staff share information with each other about children's next steps for learning, to promote continuity in children's ongoing development.  Staff do not support children's emerging pre-reading and pre-writing skills consistently, to provide them with more challenge.

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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

 improve and monitor how staff promote continuity in children's learning and development  support and challenge children's pre-reading and pre-writing skills further.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed indoor and outdoor activities.  The inspector completed a joint observation with the nursery manager.  The inspector talked with children and staff at appropriate times.  The inspector looked at a sample of documentation.  The inspector discussed self-evaluation.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

Safeguarding is effective. Staff have a good understanding of child protection procedures and receive regular safeguarding training. Staff work well with parents and other agencies to support children who have special educational needs and/or disabilities. Managers and staff ensure that they quickly identify and act upon any gaps in children’s development. Staff ask parents to provide them with information from outside agencies who are involved with children and their families. Adult-to-child ratios are met at all times. Staff deploy themselves effectively and supervise children well. Since registration, all staff have attended training which they use effectively to improve their communication with babies and children. For example, staff have produced picture prompts to support children with following instructions.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

The quality of teaching practice is good. Staff use observation and assessment to provide children with good challenge overall. Children explore a wide range of media, which they often use imaginatively. For example, they make mud pies and break up sticks to sprinkle on top of their creations. Staff support children to listen and concentrate well during all activities. They help them develop the confidence to ask if they do not know how to do something. Children thoroughly enjoy singing familiar songs and attempting to catch and pop soapy bubbles during music-and-movement activities. Staff successfully promote children’s interest in making discoveries. For instance, together, they watch what happens when they immerse dirty coins in vinegar.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Staff form close emotional bonds with children and are positive role models. They meet children’s personal care needs effectively. They patiently give children plenty of time to learn to do things for themselves. For example, children confidently and independently serve themselves at mealtimes and help staff to load and unload the dishwasher. Staff teach children to use the stairs from the first-floor playroom safely. Children are well behaved, develop good social skills and confidently seek others’ involvement in their play. Older children often help others, for instance, to put on their boots before playing outdoors. Staff support children who have special educational needs and/or disabilities effectively.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children develop the skills they need for starting school. For example, they learn to control their movements while jumping off a raised vehicle tyre in the outdoor play area. Babies use large metal spoons to transfer soil into large saucepans. Children develop a good understanding of the world. For instance, they show great excitement when they discover worms under logs in the nature garden. They thoroughly enjoy learning about the life cycle of frogs.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY499487 Local authority Hampshire Inspection number 1113185 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 0 - 5 Total number of places 80 Number of children on roll 100 Name of registered person Futurepath Childcare (Romsey) Limited

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reference number

Date of previous inspection Not applicable Telephone number 01749 324269

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Futurepath Childcare registered in 2016. It is located in Romsey in Hampshire. It is one of four settings registered under Futurepath Childcare. The provision opens Monday to Friday from 7.30am to 6pm, for 51 weeks a year. The organisation employs 16 staff. Of whom, one holds early years professional status, one holds an early years foundation degree, one holds a level 5 qualification, 10 hold NVQ and CACHE level 3 qualifications and one hold an NVQ level 2 qualification. The nursery receives funding for the provision of 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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