Hopscotch Day Nursery Titchfield

Hopscotch Titchfield The Stables, Little Abshot Road, Fareham, Hampshire, PO14 4LN

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 23 March 2018 6 October 2015

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This inspection: Good 2

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Good 2

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This inspection: Good 2

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 2

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This inspection: Good 2

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1

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This provision is good

 The inspiring management team works extremely cohesively together to ensure safeguarding at the nursery is given the utmost priority. A highly positive and welcoming culture is evident across the whole nursery. Children's personal development, behaviour and welfare are excellent.  An exceedingly rich and stimulating play environment entices children to play and learn. Staff take ownership of their play spaces and make excellent use of training opportunities to consistently evaluate and improve what they offer the children.  Children show high levels of confidence and motivation during their exciting play opportunities. They are keen, busy and enthusiastic learners who take pride in their achievements.  The staff team works extremely closely with parents and/or carers to raise outcomes for children. Staff develop many varied methods to engage parents to help all children reach their full potential.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 The systems for the management team to demonstrate that staff are raising the quality of their teaching and children are making progress to the highest possible levels are not fully embedded.  The management team and staff recognise they do not consistently provide opportunities and resources to extend pre-school children's understanding of technology.

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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

 build even further on staff knowledge and skills to help raise the quality of teaching and children's rates of progress to the highest possible levels  strengthen opportunities for children to develop their skills in learning to use a varied range of technology.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector spoke to children, observed the children's play activities indoors and outdoors, looked at the available resources and read relevant documentation.  The inspector held short meetings with the managers throughout the day to discuss their leadership and management, including self-evaluation methods.  The inspector spoke to a sample of parents and took account of their views.  The inspector carried out a joint observation with the manager.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

Safeguarding is effective. Staff are exceedingly well trained in child protection to understand their responsibilities. Their performance is closely monitored by management, to help keep high standards such as child supervision and ratios. The staff work closely with other agencies to make sure children are protected and their specific needs supported well. The very strong leadership team effectively manages a well-qualified and experienced staff team with very strong emphasis on delivering bespoke training. Leaders show a strong passion to continually enhance teaching across the nursery without losing sight of children's safety and well-being. The team seeks the views of parents and successfully acts on any comments they feed back to make improvements.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

Staff blend outdoor learning opportunities together so children benefit from a wide range of stimulating play to match their needs. For example, children build a pretend train together, using their imagination well, and talk about the handmade train ticket and where to go. Staff show good teaching techniques, asking questions to encourage children to think and solve problems. They deliver exciting, adult-led activities such as yoga for two- year-olds. The enthusiastic staff have high expectations based on accurate assessment of each child. They track and plan for children's progress well. Babies enjoy purposeful support from staff who get down to their eye level to develop key skills such as first words and walking. Staff read an engaging rhyming book, which babies love.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Staff cherish each child as an individual and form very nurturing, strong relationships with them. They have an excellent understanding of their role as key person, such as when they put a tired baby to sleep in the soothing sleep room with sympathetic cuddles and comforters. Children have excellent awareness of their bodies. They have fun during a charity sporting event in the garden, gaining fresh air and exercise, running with friends. Older children feel their hearts beating, talk about wobbly bones and what makes you strong. Children relish mealtimes, eating the nutritious food which is cooked daily by the on-site chef. Parents report fussy eaters now eat a variety of different fruits. Excellent systems are in place to minimise risks for children with severe allergies. The management team has very good security measures, such as use of closed-circuit television.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children develop strong skills to help them move on to school. They have high levels of development in emotional, personal and social skills. Even the youngest children develop confidence in putting on their coats and shoes, and take responsibility for small tasks. High-quality equipment enables babies to crawl, walk and climb freely in the enabling environment. Older children name the daffodils they have planted and observe butterflies which they find after learning about life cycles. They are very confident talkers explaining spontaneously to visitors their thoughts, such as 'look, butterflies in there died in cold'.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY368642 Local authority Hampshire Inspection number 1133355 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 - 8 Total number of places 75 Number of children on roll 154 Name of registered person Hopscotch Day Nursery Titchfield Ltd

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Date of previous inspection 6 October 2015 Telephone number 01489 557300

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Hopscotch Titchfield registered in 2008. It operates from a two-storey building in a rural location on the outskirts of Titchfield Common in Hampshire. The baby room is on the first floor, accessible via stairs. The nursery opens each weekday from 7.30am to 6.30pm all year, except for one week over Christmas and all public holidays. Children may attend for a variety of sessions or all day. The nursery receives funding for the provision of free early education for children aged two, three and four years. There are 31 members of staff employed to work with the children, including the manager who holds a relevant early years qualification at level 3. There is a qualified early years teacher and two members of staff who hold a relevant early years degree. All of the remaining staff hold or are working towards recognised early years qualifications.

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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. procedures set out in the guidance ‘Complaints procedure: raising concerns and making complaints about Ofsted’, which is available from Ofsted’s website: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ofsted. If you would like Ofsted to send you a copy of the guidance, please telephone 0300 123 4234, or email enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk. achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages. It regulates and inspects childcare and children's social care, and inspects the Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service (Cafcass), schools, colleges, initial teacher training, work-based learning and

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