Stramongate Nursery

Stramongate Nursery Stramongate School, Blackhall Road, KENDAL, Cumbria, LA9 4BT

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 8 January 2018 7 January 2014

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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

 Children's emotional and physical well-being is at the heart of nursery practice. The invested and passionate staff team makes a considerable impact on the lives of the children and their families. They determinedly raise outcomes for children and effectively close achievement gaps.  Partnership working is exemplary. The manager and staff work tirelessly to seek out and utilise all available support and resources. Through excellent information sharing they effectively create an entirely collaborative approach to meeting the needs of the children.  The manager is highly skilled, has a wealth of experience and is committed to providing the highest-quality care and education for all children. A culture of evaluative practice is extremely well embedded within the nursery and targeted improvement plans help to drive continual improvement.  The atmosphere within the nursery is vibrant and dynamic. This is matched by staff's

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This provision is outstanding

enthusiastic approach to their interactions with children. They use their excellent teaching skills, in-depth knowledge of the children and strong assessment skills, to identify next steps that inform planning.  Children's behaviour is impeccable. They show high levels of self-control, are kind and considerate of their peers and relish the abundance of praise they receive from staff.

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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 analyse the progress made by different groups of children.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of teaching and the impact this has on children's learning, during play inside and outside.  The inspector carried out a joint observation with the nursery manager.  The inspector spoke to members of staff and children at appropriate times during the inspection, and held a meeting with the manager of the nursery.  The inspector took account of the views of parents spoken to on the day of the inspection.  The inspector looked at children's records, planning documentation, evidence of the suitability of staff and a range of other documentation, including self-evaluation and policies and procedures.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. All staff are highly trained and qualified in safeguarding and have a comprehensive understanding of their individual responsibilities in protecting children from harm. Detailed and ongoing risk assessments and excellent deployment of staff further help to ensure children's safety. The manager provides extremely efficient systems of support and performance management based on incisive monitoring of staff practice. For example, observational videos are taken of staff during their interactions with children. This enables them to review their practice in detail, and together with the manager, identify specific areas of practice they can improve. Targeted training further embeds the excellent practice in place. The manager is currently working on enhancing the already precise monitoring of children's progress.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Children greatly benefit from the excellent teaching skills of the staff, who are highly qualified and experienced. They seize every opportunity for learning. For example, children find some ice on the floor. Staff show great enthusiasm and celebrate their discovery. They help children to explore the properties of the ice and encourage them to describe what it looks, feels and sounds like. Staff's high-quality teaching successfully engages children's learning and promotes their expanding vocabulary. Staff work very closely with parents to engage them in their children's learning. Parents receive a wealth of information about the nursery, their children's progress and ways to support learning at home. Staff use additional funding exceptionally well and monitor the impact on children's learning. Children who have special educational needs receive exemplary support from staff. Intervention is sought at the very earliest stage from external agencies and services

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

and advice received is threaded effectively into individual plans.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The highly effective key-person system and well-considered settling-in procedures help to ensure children settle quickly and develop the confidence to explore and learn. Children have excellent opportunities to manage risks and challenges. They carefully scale the tyre mountain, using their firm understanding of safety as they capably maintain their balance. Children demonstrate the well-practiced hygiene routines through their imaginative play. They pretend to wash their hands in the role-play kitchen, being very thorough as they mimic dispensing soap and say, 'I need some soap now, wash wash wash'.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

All children make excellent progress. They are motivated and inquisitive learners who demonstrate a can-do attitude. They use excellent problem-solving skills and articulate their ideas extremely well. Children acquire excellent independence skills and demonstrate very positive attitudes as they learn to respect each other. Children learn the skills they need for their future learning and in readiness for school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY357864 Local authority Cumbria Inspection number 1102080 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 - 4 Total number of places 32 Number of children on roll 32 Name of registered person QKS Meadowview Nursery Ltd

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Date of previous inspection 7 January 2014 Telephone number 07847479420

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Stramongate Nursery registered in 2007. The nursery opens Monday to Friday during term time only. Sessions are from 8.30am to 11.30am and 12.15pm to 3.15pm. All day sessions are also available. There is an after-school club which operates 3.30pm to 6pm term time only. The nursery employs seven members of staff. Of these, six hold appropriate qualifications. The nursery receives funding to provide free 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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