East Bergholt Young Explorers

East Bergolt Young Explorers Cherry Blossom Nursery, Hadleigh Road, Colchester, CO7 6QT

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 26 October 2017 Not applicable

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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 management meticulously monitors the progress of different groups of children and individual children. They plan and provide highly effective support to meet each child's learning needs. All children, including those in receipt of additional funding, make rapid progress from their starting points. They are extremely well prepared for school.  Children benefit from an exceptional learning environment. They eagerly delve into a range of rich and stimulating resources which helps to deepen their skills in solving problems and being creative. Babies and children of all ages play harmoniously together and are highly respectful towards each other.  The staff provide exceptional support for children who have special educational needs and/or disabilities. They establish precise care plans and often instigate the excellent exchange of information with parents and other relevant professionals. The special

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This provision is outstanding

educational needs coordinator continually enhances her knowledge and skills.  Children enjoy many opportunities for physical activity throughout the day. For example, toddlers participate in challenging climbing and catching activities in the outdoor area which help to strengthen their coordination and balance.  Morale is incredibly positive across the staff team. The management inspires all staff to make the most of their individual skills and provides rich opportunities for reflection and self-evaluation. This helps to drive the outstanding practice in teaching and excellent outcomes for children.

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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 focus on the excellent opportunities for professional development, evaluating the impact of this support on maintaining the outstanding practice.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of teaching during activities indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact this has on children's learning.  The inspector spoke to staff and children at appropriate times throughout the inspection.  The inspector completed a joint observation with the manager.  The inspector held a meeting with the setting manager and group manager. She looked at relevant documentation and evidence of the suitability of staff working in the setting.  The inspector spoke to a number of parents during the inspection and took account of their views expressed in written testimonials.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. Staff demonstrate a deep understanding of their responsibilities in protecting children from harm. The management team works incredibly closely with parents and other agencies, including the children's centre and local schools. This helps to promote a highly consistent approach to children's promoting children's welfare and learning. Parents are inspired to contribute to the setting's success and readily add their own observations to their child's assessments. The management team seizes every opportunity to disseminate their highly regarded practice. For example, they lead support meetings for other early years providers. There are ambitious plans to continue the professional development of staff. Staff are keen complete training in the forest schools ethos to help build on the excellent provision for children to learn outdoors.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff inspire children to become highly imaginative and deeply engaged in their play. For example, they arouse children's interest in exploring the properties of wet and dry mud while accessing the outdoor kitchen. Staff demonstrate superb skills in using books to heighten children's exceptional listening skills. For example, children emulate the enthusiasm of the staff as they bring a story to life with realistic props, energetic actions and differing tones of voice. Staff make excellent use of sign language, which helps to enrich the communication skills of babies. Natural features are used very creatively. For example, children identify the numbers written on some brightly coloured stones and work methodically together to place these in numerical order.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Each child's key person has a highly impressive depth of knowledge and gives superb attention to meeting the children's individual care needs. For example, staff meet with parents to plan the arrangements for administering medication and following children's complex dietary needs in precise detail. There is an extremely sharp focus on helping babies and children to make impressive progress in their personal, social and emotional development. Excellent partnerships with the local primary schools are particularly supportive in helping to prepare children emotionally for starting school. For example, children are encouraged to put on their 'thinking hats' and use their 'listening ears' to reflect the expectations for behaviour in school. Staff are mindful to teach children how to use tools and equipment safely. For example, staff create plenty of closely supervised opportunities for children to use scissors to cut paper and knives to cut soft fruits.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

The superb support offered motivates children to embrace learning and they make consistently high levels of progress given their starting points. Children demonstrate superb levels of resilience, confidence and independence. They thoroughly enjoy singing together and show remarkable understanding when communicating their ideas. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities develop a stronger awareness of how to care for their bodies. For example, they explore a dinosaur-themed toothbrush in the setting which helps to drive their greater enthusiasm for brushing their teeth at home.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY494296 Local authority Suffolk Inspection number 1029941 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 - 11 Total number of places 30 Number of children on roll 56 Name of registered person Constable Country Childcare Committee

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reference number

Date of previous inspection Not applicable Telephone number 01206 298442

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East Bergholt Young Explorers registered in 2015. The setting employs 16 members of childcare staff. Of these, 12 hold appropriate early years qualifications from level 2 to level 6, including one with early years professional status. The setting opens from Monday to Friday for 50 weeks of the year. Sessions are from 7.30am until 6pm. The setting 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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