Kids 1st Ashbrooke

Kids 1st Ashbrooke Kids 1st Ashbrooke, Gorse Road, Sunderland, Tyne And Wear, SR2 7BX

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 7 February 2018 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 remarkably dedicated manager leads her extremely efficient and highly qualified team superbly well. Her excellent managerial skills support staff to deliver the utmost quality of care for children and their families. The manager has excellent performance management systems in place that scrupulously help to identify any gaps in teaching.  The extremely passionate staff team provides highly exciting and enthralling activities. Children demonstrate a real enthusiasm for learning and immerse themselves into play. They delight in exciting physical activity games, including finding the bear in their own secret garden. This helps to promote children's imaginative skills extremely well.  Staff promote exceptional levels of hygienic practices. Children are provided with an array of very healthy choices during mealtimes. They learn to develop excellent levels of independence and delight in completing small tasks appropriate to their age and

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This provision is outstanding

stage of development, including learning how to tend to their self-care needs.  Young children use their whole bodies to make marks using paints on large sheets of paper. Older children give descriptions of their drawings, including representations of their own homes. This helps to very effectively promote children's literacy skills.  Children behave exceedingly well. Staff are highly nurturing and supportive in their role. They consult with children about recognising their achievements and build on children's growing levels of self-esteem. Children develop superb social skills.

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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 embed the excellent existing systems for monitoring children's progress that help to meticulously identify and address any gaps in their learning.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of teaching during activities and assessed the impact this has on children's learning.  The inspector spoke with staff and children during the inspection.  The inspector completed a joint observation with the nursery manager.  The inspector held a meeting with the nursery manager. She looked at relevant documentation and evidence of the suitability of staff working in the nursery.  The inspector spoke to parents during the inspection and took account of their views.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. The highly dedicated manager and her extremely knowledgeable staff team superbly promote children's safety and well-being throughout all aspects of practice. Staff demonstrate an excellent knowledge of the indicators that may suggest that a child is suffering or is at risk of suffering abuse, neglect or harm. Staff evaluate training events extremely well and effectively disseminate their learning to others. For example, following observation, assessment and planning training, staff have implemented specific development progress reports for individual children. This helps them to very accurately identify what children need to learn next. The manager intends to continue to embed the excellent monitoring systems that help to very accurately identify and address any gaps in learning.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff work very closely with parents and other professionals to meet children's individual needs. They have created superb strategies to engage parents in their children's learning. Parents can access a wealth of information through highly informative secure online learning records for their individual children. Parents are extremely complimentary about the level of care their children receive. Staff use their expert knowledge of how children learn to plan challenging and highly stimulating activities for them. They use superb questioning to help children to develop their thinking skills. For example, children listen very attentively to information about giant snails as they watch how they eat and learn about their different features. This helps to develop children's understanding of how to care for other living things.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children develop an excellent understanding of the differences between themselves and others. They talk about different emotions and make different facial expressions when looking at themselves in mirrors. This helps to promote children's emotional well-being extremely well. Children are provided with exceptional opportunities to develop an awareness of other cultures and traditions from around the world. Babies explore a very wide range of natural materials and demonstrate superb exploratory skills. This helps to promote children's creative development.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children make excellent progress. They use mathematical language exceedingly well throughout their play. Children estimate and use language to talk about capacity and weights during exciting water play activities. They are very confident communicators and engage very well in conversations. Children are very well prepared for their next stage in learning and their eventual move to school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY495656 Local authority Sunderland Inspection number 1035939 Type of provision Full-time provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register Age range of children 0 - 5 Total number of places 108 Number of children on roll 121 Name of registered person Kids First Day Nurseries Limited

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reference number

Date of previous inspection Not applicable Telephone number 0191 514 0653

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Kids 1st Ashbrooke registered in 2016. The nursery employs 17 members of childcare staff. Of these, 16 hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3, including five who hold an early years qualification at level 6. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday, all year round. Sessions are from 7.30am until 6pm. The nursery 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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