Buds To Bloom Pre-School

Buds To Bloom Pre-School Buds To Bloom Nursery, Church Road, Lydney, Gloucestershire, GL15 5EG

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 27 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 inspiring managers encourage all staff to continue their professional development to improve their already excellent teaching skills and support the best possible outcomes for all children.  Staff make highly accurate assessments of children's development. They rapidly identify when children need extra help, including those who have medical or special educational needs (SEN) and/or disabilities. Any gaps in learning and development close quickly and children make excellent progress from their starting points.  Staff focus on helping children to acquire excellent language and communication skills. For example, they use signs as well as words to make sure all children can express their needs and wants effectively.  Managers monitor the provision extremely well and use feedback from children, parents and staff to make improvements. For example, they have reorganised the environments and resources for the children to make them more exciting and engaging. Children are

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This provision is outstanding

very eager to join in and show high levels of concentration and curiosity.  Managers and staff have built exceptionally strong partnerships with all those involved in the care of the children, including schools, parents and other professionals. They act on advice and guidance extremely well to make sure outcomes for children are highly successful and support their move on to school effectively.

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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 inspiring partnership working with parents.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of teaching indoors and outdoors.  The inspector took into account the views of parents spoken to on the day of the inspection.  The inspector carried out a joint evaluation of the activities children took part in, with one of the pre-school managers.  The inspector had discussions with the pre-school managers, staff and children at appropriate times during the inspection.  The inspector looked at samples of paperwork, including staff qualifications, risk assessments, policies and procedures, children's learning and development files and children's records.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Managers and staff use technology effectively to share knowledge about the children with all those involved in their care. They regularly exchange information about what children do at home to provide exceptionally consistent experiences which help children learn and develop extremely well. Managers want to provide more innovative strategies to encourage parents' involvement in children's learning. For instance, they have organised an evening to help parents understand the benefits to children's language skills through sharing books and rhymes. Safeguarding is effective. All staff hold paediatric first-aid certificates and have attended current training for keeping children safe. They make sure children are well supervised at all times.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff know children exceptionally well and skilfully extend children's learning through following their interests. For example, as children thoroughly enjoy the outdoors and painting, staff set up an activity in the woods for children to make 'mud paints'. Children experiment with different tools, working out which ones are best for putting mud into their pots. They then investigate what happens when they mix different coloured paint, accurately predicting that red and blue make purple, and red and white make pink. Children are fascinated and delighted by their creations and eagerly paint the trees, telling staff they are making 'rainbow trees'. Younger children have fun adding water to the sand. They use a variety of containers to make different shapes and laugh excitedly as they knock them down.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children readily explore the highly stimulating environments and confidently make choices about how and where they want to play. They are competent at using different tools, such as spoons to add ingredients to the dough mix before stirring it. They use pens and pencils for drawing and writing their names and knives to cut and prepare fruit for snack. Staff promote children's understanding of healthy lifestyles, including through encouraging physical activity, participating in action rhymes and healthy food choices.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children come into the setting ready and eager to learn. They settle quickly, greeting friends and staff enthusiastically. Children show considerable respect for others and share exceptionally well. For example, older children confidently 'read' instructions for making play dough and help younger ones find the right ingredients. Younger children love sharing stories with the staff and are keen to point out pictures they see in the books. Children have fun drawing maps of the local area, adding in numbers for parking spaces for the toy cars and racing cars along the road they have drawn. All children make excellent progress from their starting points. They are highly motivated and engaged.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY499017 Local authority Gloucestershire Inspection number 1039468 Type of provision Full-time provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register Age range of children 2 - 5 Total number of places 26 Number of children on roll 41 Name of registered person Buds to Bloom Pre-School Partnership

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Date of previous inspection Not applicable Telephone number 07546804442

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Buds to Bloom Pre-School registered in 2016 and is owned by two partners. The pre- school operates on the first floor of the Old Vicarage in Lydney, Gloucestershire. It operates Monday to Friday from 8.30am to 3.30pm, term time only. Five staff work directly with the children. One member of staff has achieved early years professional status, one staff member holds an appropriate childcare qualification at level 4, and the three other members of staff have childcare qualifications at level 3. The pre-school receives funding to provide free early education for two-, three- and four-year-olds.

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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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