Goring Little Fishes Preschool

Goring Little Fishes Goring United Reformed Church, Shaftesbury Avenue, Goring-by-Sea, Worthing, West Sussex, BN12 4EA

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 6 October 2017 8 June 2015

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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

 The manager is truly inspirational. She continually reviews everything she and the staff do. The manager inspires and motivates children, their parents and the staff team in achieving the best they can. She sets exceptionally high standards for herself.  The staff's expert knowledge and understanding of all children's abilities and developments ensure every child's uniqueness is met. The outstanding quality of teaching ensures every child is included in all activities regardless of their stage of development. The pre-school uses additional funding astutely to address gaps in learning rapidly to help children catch up quickly.  Children are extremely happy and settled within the welcoming environment. They are highly motivated and eager to join in with the stimulating and exciting activities and use the resources, enabling them to become particularly keen learners.  Children enjoy many opportunities to be confident, self-motivated and physically active,

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This provision is outstanding

such as learning to swing, balance and bounce.  Partnerships with parents are exemplary. Parents comment that they feel exceptionally welcome and have a comprehensive understanding of their children's learning and development.  Children focus on activities for sustained periods and benefit from endless opportunities to use their imagination to adapt activities in their own way and at their own pace.

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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 use the excellent self-evaluation and ongoing staff training plan to further enrich the current outstanding practice.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of teaching during activities, indoors and outdoors, assessing the impact this has on children's learning.  The inspector sampled the pre-school's documentation, including the safeguarding policy and procedures.  The inspector and the manager completed a joint observation and discussed the quality of learning and teaching that took place.  The inspector took into account the views of parents and carers spoken to on the day of the inspection.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The manager and staff have an excellent understanding of child protection issues and procedures to help protect children from harm. Staff have an excellent awareness of their duty to protect children from extremist views. The manager recognises the need to continue with highly reflective evaluation to accurately target improvements and staff development to maintain the outstanding service provided. Staff show high enthusiasm and commitment to build on their qualifications, skills and knowledge, ensuring children's learning opportunities are further enhanced by highly qualified and committed staff. There are exceptional partnerships with parents. For example, the manager supports parents attending specialist appointments with children. Highly effective partnership working with other professionals ensures continual improvement in children's development.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff make accurate and astute observations and assessments of children's progress. Planning is individual, varied and flexible, ensuring it is relevant to children's development and the next stage in their learning. Children who have special educational needs are extremely well supported. Staff devise detailed individual plans and extremely informative learning profiles that are consistently shared with parents and other professionals. Each child is extremely motivated and exceptionally engaged in their learning. Outdoor play opportunities are inspiring and provide amazing opportunities for children's learning. Staff expertly question children to encourage them to think and work out ideas for themselves.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Staff are excellent role models and promote high standards of behaviour. Children behave extremely well. They care for other children and understand the importance of sharing and taking turns. Staff are extremely sensitive to each child's needs, particularly when they start at the pre-school. They work exceptionally well with parents, helping children feel safe, secure and confident. Staff are exceedingly skilful at helping children to manage their feelings. Staff promote healthy lifestyles through ongoing informal conversations during snack and meal times. They help children learn about risk and keeping themselves and others safe. For example, children competently talk about safety rules as they use the innovative 'indoor material aerial bungee'. They squeal with delight as they bounce up and down, forwards and backwards and from side to side.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children are truly inspired and excited in their learning. They make excellent progress given their starting points. All children, including those who have special educational needs and those who receive additional funding, make outstanding progress. They are highly motivated and very eager to learn. They expertly follow and communicate instructions to each other and staff, enabling them to complete and enjoy tasks. For example, they develop excellent early literacy and mathematical skills, such as competently following building instructions, easily deciding to find and use sand as they pretend to put 'cement' between 'bricks' to make a tower outside.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 113498 Local authority West Sussex Inspection number 1089108 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 - 5 Total number of places 29 Number of children on roll 39 Name of registered person Goring Little Fishes Committee

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Date of previous inspection 8 June 2015 Telephone number 07803 001018 or 01903 244453

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Goring Little Fishes pre-school registered in 1995 and is located in Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex. It is open each weekday from 8am to 4pm, term time only. The pre-school receives funding for the provision of free early education for children aged two, three and four years. There are eight members of staff, all of whom hold appropriate early years qualifications from level 2 to level 5.

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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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