Ecole Du Parc

Ecole Du Parc Garfield Community Centre, 64 Garfield Road, London, SW11 5PN

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 29 November 2017 5 March 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 quality of teaching is exceptional. Staff plan meticulously and use information from regular robust assessments to provide a very wide variety of highly challenging activities. Children make excellent progress.  Staff teach children excellent early literacy skills. For example, they provide many different and engaging types of storytelling, including recorded stories that children operate independently on headphones. Staff use puppets very successfully to engage children fully in stories and wholly encourage their full participation and understanding.  Staff support is extremely thorough and provides high-focused professional development. Staff have attended a very broad variety of courses, including a one on early mathematical development which led to greater support for this area of learning.  Staff have exceptionally good relationships with parents and others involved in children's care and learning. They keep parents very well informed of children's

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This provision is outstanding

progress. For instance, they have regular parent meetings and provide encrypted 24- hour access to assessment information.  The manager has acute awareness of where the nursery's strengths and weaknesses lie and has set highly relevant goals to build ongoing improvement.  Behaviour management is excellent. Staff use an analytical approach to look for things that might trigger misbehaviour. This helps provide highly effective support 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 develop the already excellent outdoor provision to provide children with activities that reflect the exceptional indoor activities to enrich learning even further for those who learn best outdoors.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector carried out a joint observation with the manager of a group activity.  The inspector observed interaction between staff and children, and spoke with children when appropriate.  The inspector tracked the progress of several children.  The inspector looked at some documentation and held a discussion with the manager.  The inspector spoke to parents and staff, and considered their views.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The manager has excellent systems for ensuring the best outcomes for children. Monitoring is exceptional and includes, for instance, regular robust observations of staff and comprehensive feedback to improve existing skills. The manager meets with staff on a regular basis and provides in-depth discussion of their performance to help ensure very best outcomes for children. Safeguarding is effective. Staff have excellent knowledge of procedures to follow should they have concerns about a child in their care, including reporting significant events to Ofsted. Children's safety is paramount. Staff carry out robust checks in all parts of the nursery to reduce the risk of accidents. Staff follow strict hygiene procedures to provide excellent protection to children, including regular and recorded nappy changes. Staff supervise children very well at all times.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Children move forward in their language development exceptionally and become highly confident bilingual communicators. Staff provide excellent ways for children to develop their early mathematical skills. For instance, they sing counting songs up to 20 in French and children use mathematical vocabulary to describe size exceptionally well. Staff provide excellent physical challenges to children in the well-equipped outdoor area. For example, children ascend a climbing wall confidently, balance along a curved balancing beam skilfully and demonstrate excellent throwing and catching skills. The manager recognises that she could add even more to the outdoor area to fully reflect indoor experiences to support children's development even further.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children are extremely confident and very highly motivated to learn. They have excellent safety awareness. For instance, staff teach children how to use their scooters safely when outside and staff issue 'licences' to children. Children remind each other of the need to act with care and caution. Children are extremely independent. For instance, they lay the lunch table, serve themselves, scrape their bowls and wash their hands independently. Staff teach children excellent healthy routines, for example, related to eating well and taking excellent physical challenges.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children are perfectly mannered and respectful towards each other. They learn about and have high regard for people from different cultures and backgrounds. Even the youngest children have excellent concentration skills. Children have exceptional creative skills. For instance, they use a wide range of tools and materials very imaginatively.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY360899 Local authority Wandsworth Inspection number 1093163 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 68 Number of children on roll 60 Name of registered person Sequoia Organisation Limited

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Date of previous inspection 5 March 2015 Telephone number 0207 993 6460

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Ecole Du Parc is a French independent day nursery and school which opened in 2002. It is located in Clapham in the London Borough of Wandsworth. The nursery receives funding for free early education places for children aged two, three and four years. It is open each weekday from 8.20am to 3pm during term time only and closes on Wednesdays at 12.30pm. All tuition is in French with specific activities in English. The nursery employs 12 staff, all of whom hold appropriate early years qualifications. This includes four staff who hold early years professional status, three staff who have a level 3 early years qualification and five staff who have a level 2 early years qualification.

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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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