Byron Green Pre-School

Byron Green Pre-School Avenues Tenants Hall, First Avenue, Oldham, Lancashire, OL8 3SH

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 20 April 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 highly skilled and experienced manager is truly inspirational. She leads her well- qualified staff team with superb efficiency and admirable enthusiasm. The dedication and commitment of staff, along with their extremely hard work, has been instrumental in raising the quality of the pre-school to an outstanding level.  Staff make excellent use of observations of children's play to complete sharply focused assessments of their achievements. Recent changes to how staff plan for children's individual interests has had an extremely positive impact on improving learning outcomes for children. All children make rapid progress.  Children benefit from a calm, nurturing, relaxed atmosphere and the sensitive interaction of extremely caring and attentive key persons. Staff ensure that children's needs are consistently met to help them to feel comfortable and content. This helps to promote children's physical and emotional well-being exceptionally well.

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This provision is outstanding

 Inclusion is a key strength of the pre-school. Excellent partnership working with parents and external professionals support a highly effective, shared approach towards children's care and learning. This helps to ensure high levels of continuity and consistency for all 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 enhance the highly effective programme of professional development to consistently drive and sustain the already outstanding quality of teaching.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of teaching and the impact this has on children's learning.  The inspector talked to staff and children at appropriate times throughout the inspection.  The inspector completed a joint observation of a planned adult-led activity with the manager.  The inspector looked at relevant documentation, including safeguarding policies and procedures, children's records and checked evidence of the qualifications and suitability of staff working in the pre-school.  The inspector took account of the views of parents spoken to on the day of the inspection.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The manager and all staff create a culture of vigilance where children's safety and welfare are promoted to the highest level. The manager The closely checks the excellent progress made by different groups of children attending the pre- school. Informative data is obtained which enables her to identify gaps in children's learning and implement effective strategies to ensure all children make the best possible progress. The manager uses her excellent knowledge, skills and expertise to guide, coach and support staff and carries out regular supervision meetings to manage their performance. The training staff attend is superbly planned and targeted to ensure it has a positive impact on the learning outcomes for children. The manager recognises that the continual development of staff's knowledge is crucial and is considering how to consistently improve their practice. Self-evaluation is an ongoing process and the

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

manager and staff consistently reflect on their practice. They continually make changes to resources, activities and the environment to meet the individual needs of children.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Children thrive in this outstanding pre-school. The environment, both indoors and outdoors, is rich and imaginative. Children demonstrate high levels of motivation and engagement in activities. Highly effective one-to-one support from extremely skilled staff is provided for children who have special educational needs and/or disabilities when necessary. Staff use their in-depth knowledge of how children learn to successfully support them to achieve the next steps in their learning and development. They use superb questioning techniques to challenge children and skilfully develop their ability to solve problems. Children count how many scoops of flour and salt they need to make play dough and explore numbers and measuring in the outdoor environment. They have a huge range of opportunities to make marks and write for different purposes throughout the pre-school. Children write messages and shopping lists in the role-play home corner

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

and post letters to the elves who live in the pre-school. Their creativity and imagination is particularly impressive. For example, children decide to make a camp fire out of logs and sticks. They pretend to make hot chocolate using real cocoa powder for their friends to drink.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Staff are enthusiastic and implement a highly successful key-person system. They consistently use positive praise and encouragement to celebrate children's achievements. Children demonstrate high levels of self-esteem and emotional security. Staff are excellent role models. Children are aware of the high expectations staff have and they manage children's behaviour extremely well. They sensitively support children to understand how their actions affect the feelings of others.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

All children make rapid progress. Several children achieve beyond expected levels of development for their age. Children demonstrate a mature understanding of simple mathematical concepts and excellent early literacy skills. They acquire an outstanding range of skills, abilities and attitudes which helps them to develop an excellent foundation for future learning and the eventual move to school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY500013 Local authority Oldham Inspection number 1050798 Type of provision Sessional provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register Age range of children 2 - 4 Total number of places 26 Number of children on roll 30 Name of registered person Claire Louise Jackson

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Date of previous inspection Not applicable Telephone number 07562 328 815

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Byron Green Pre-School re-registered in 2016 due to a change of premises. The pre-school employs five members of childcare staff. Of these, three hold an appropriate early years qualification at level 3 and one holds a qualification at level 2. The pre-school opens from Monday to Friday during term time only. Sessions are from 9am to 3pm. The pre-school 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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