Court Moor Community Playgroup

Court Moor Community Playgroup Court Moor School, Spring Woods, Fleet, GU52 7RY

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 21 November 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 manager coaches, supports and trains staff extremely effectively to continually improve their outstanding teaching practice. Staff interaction and communication with children are exceptional.  Staff know children extremely well. They use highly detailed assessments of children's progress to help children make excellent progress from their starting points.  The manager reviews and monitors children's progress exceptionally well. Any gaps in children's development are quickly responded to and reduced to help them make the best possible progress.  Staff provide children with an exceptionally stimulating environment that motivates them to explore and learn. Children eagerly take part in a wide range of exciting activities. They are extremely happy and settled.  Self-evaluation is outstanding. Since registration, staff have significantly improved continuity in children's learning and development. For example, they have provided a

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This provision is outstanding

wealth of interesting resources that inspires children to learn outdoors as well as indoors.  Staff establish highly effective partnership working with parents and outside agencies to meet children's individual needs exceptionally well. They support children learning English as an additional language extremely well. For example, they have applied for grants for an interpreter to assess children's development in their home languages.

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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

 help all children to review their success during activities and support their excellent emerging self-confidence further.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed children involved in indoor and outdoor activities.  The inspector completed joint observations with the two setting leaders.  The inspector talked with staff, children and parents in the two pre-school buildings.  The inspector discussed self-evaluation and looked at documentation.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. All staff have an excellent knowledge and understanding of child protection procedures. The exceptionally well-qualified staff team regularly completes training that continually improves its professional development. For example, all staff have learned to use sign language and use this to help children to communicate more effectively. Pupil premium funding is used very effectively to reduce gaps in children's development. Staff have obtained resources which they use to successfully develop children's social skills and friendships. For instance, children develop confidence to communicate with others while using walkie-talkies and making imaginary potions in small bottles.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff know all the children extremely well. They skillfully assess and support children's learning and development. Staff consistently join in children's play and ask questions that inspire children to respond and learn more. For example, when children use lolly sticks to write their name in dried paint they extend their excellent literacy skills. Staff successfully promote children's concentration and interest in books. Children thoroughly enjoy using a wide variety of interesting props to act out familiar stories. For instance, they eagerly open pre-prepared parcels and envelopes to find animals related to a story about a zoo. Staff develop children's control of their movements exceptionally well. For instance, children use spoons to find worms in soil which they then carefully hold and put into a wormery. However, very occasionally, staff do not notice when children seek reassurance that they are doing the activities correctly, to enhance their self-confidence further.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Staff provide children with extremely positive role models. Children are exceptionally well- behaved. Staff teach children to do as much as possible for themselves. For instance, children learn to serve themselves at snack time and wash and dry their plates and cups independently. Staff support children's good healthy exceptionally well. They provide them with excellent physical challenge. For instance, children thoroughly enjoy music-and- movement and yoga activities, and use obstacle courses while pretending to be pirates. Staff skillfully promote children's understanding of how to keep themselves safe. For example, they routinely include children in age-appropriate risk assessments.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children develop a wide range of skills they need for starting school. They develop excellent concentration. For example, they enthusiastically copy numerous hand movements and manipulate dough while listening to music. Children thoroughly enjoy learning to count and identify numbers, for instance, while chopping vegetables in a play café and searching for coins hidden in sand and numbers in shaving foam. Children develop an excellent understanding of the world. For example, during outings to a bird zoo, farm and while watching chicks hatch from eggs.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY488492 Local authority Hampshire Inspection number 1022389 Type of provision Sessional provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register Age range of children 2 - 4 Total number of places 44 Number of children on roll 59 Name of registered person Court Moor Community Playgroup CIO

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reference number

Date of previous inspection Not applicable Telephone number 01252 810141

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Court Moor Community Playgroup registered in 2015. It is located in Fleet, Hampshire. The pre-school opens from 9am to 3pm on Monday to Friday, during term time. It receives funding for free early education for children aged two, three and four years. There are 11 staff employed to work with the children, all of whom hold appropriate childcare qualifications at either level 3, level 5 and level 6.

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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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