Timsbury Childcare

Timsbury Childcare Tabor Church, North Road, Timsbury, BATH, BA2 0JH

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 2 October 2017 15 July 2014

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Personal development, behaviour and welfare Requires improvement Outcomes for children Requires improvement

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This provision requires improvement. It is not yet good because:

 Staff do not manage all children's behaviour effectively. They do not provide consistently clear messages to support children to learn how to handle their emotions and use resources appropriately.  Staff's planned support during some adult-led activities does not consistently engage children and sustain their attention.  The manager's self-evaluation processes, including the monitoring of staff's practice, are not effective enough in identifying where improvements are needed, to ensure children's outcomes are good.

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It has the following strengths

 Overall, there are warm and trusting relationships between the children and their key persons. Staff are caring towards children. Babies are happy and relaxed in their environment. They are confident to explore independently and make choices about what they would like to do.  Key persons observe and accurately assess children's individual development and outline clear next steps in children's learning, to help them make steady progress. They ensure parents can be involved in their children's learning and keep them well informed. For instance, through the frequent sharing of information via an online system and regular parent consultation evenings.  Staff attend training to gain new ideas to develop teaching practices, such as ways to develop children's awareness of letters of the alphabet and the corresponding sounds.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

To meet the requirements of the early years foundation stage and the Childcare Register the provider must:

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Due Date

 manage children's behaviour effectively and provide consistent clear messages to support them to learn how to handle their feelings and use resources appropriately. 30/10/2017

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Due Date

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

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Due Date

 review the planned support for adult-led activities to consistently sustain children's attention and fully engage them in learning  use self-evaluation more effectively to identify what needs to be done to improve children's outcomes.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed activities in the main play room and the outside learning environment, and conducted a joint observation with the manager.  The inspector held a meeting with the manager of the provision. She spoke to staff and children throughout the inspection when appropriate.  The inspector looked at children's assessment and planning documentation, the setting's risk assessment and safety records.  The inspector checked evidence of suitability and qualifications of staff working within the setting, the provider's evidence of self-evaluation and a range of other documentation.  The inspector took account the views of parents spoken to on the day and by reading a number of comments on messages and letters given to the manager.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management requires improvement

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. Staff implement the varied range of policies and procedures in place well, to ensure children are kept safe. They have a strong understanding of child protection arrangements and have updated their knowledge through training. They carry out regular checks of the areas they use to outline hazards and to minimise risks to children. The manager undertakes meetings with staff so she can offer support and discuss their performance. She undertakes self-evaluation of the provision with her deputy manager. However, they do not do this well enough to identify weaknesses in practice, particularly with regard to monitoring the effectiveness of staff's interactions and support of children's behaviour.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment requires improvement

Staff engage children in conversation and follow children's interests. Children develop an understanding of the world as they imaginatively explore the role-play vet surgery. For instance, they act out taking care of the toy pets. Staff ask children probing questions to encourage their thinking and to link to children's experiences. Children talk about caring for their own pets. They put on safety equipment, such as gloves and masks. Staff discuss the possible use of such equipment extending children's learning. Older children remain engaged in this self-chosen play for quite some time. However, during some adult-led activities children's attention is not always sustained. For example, supporting staff are busy noting what children are doing rather than helping sustain children's attention.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare require improvement

Staff know children and their families well and work in partnership with parents to help support children's care. However, staff do not persevere in helping children learn what appropriate behaviour is. Children's inappropriate use of resources and attention-seeking behaviour causes distraction and reduces the benefit of activities in which they take part. Nonetheless, children enjoy social mealtimes and chat happily, taking turns in conversation. The garden is used every day so that the children can take their learning outside and enjoy being active in the fresh air. Children test their skills on the range of equipment outside. Staff are attentive to children's exploration and offer reminders to children, to ensure their safety, while still letting them take on self-chosen challenges.

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Outcomes for children require improvement

Children develop their literacy skills suitably. For example, babies enjoy snuggling in with staff to look at picture books and older children join in with interactive stories, sharing their knowledge of characters and repeating words. However, children are not consistently engaged in activities and their self-awareness and emotional development is not consistently progressing to good levels. Overall, children develop useful independence skills. For instance, they tidy up at the end of the morning and clear away their cups and plates after their meal. They are gaining some of the skills to help prepare them for their move on to school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY460038 Local authority Bath & NE Somerset Inspection number 1071547 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 - 8 Total number of places 18 Number of children on roll 50 Name of registered person Timsbury Childcare Partnership

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Date of previous inspection 15 July 2014 Telephone number 07858429458

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Timsbury Childcare registered in 2012. The nursery employs seven members of childcare staff. Of these, all hold appropriate early years qualifications ranging from level 3 to level 6, including one with qualified teacher status. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday, all year round. Sessions are from 7.30am until 6pm. The nursery 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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