Badgers Nursery School

Badgers Nursery School Hanbury Park Stadium, Allen Road, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, RH16 3PT

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 7 June 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

 Staff assess children meticulously to understand fully the progress they make and to understand where their priorities for learning lie. They know exactly how each child likes to learn and what they are interested in. Staff use this information to plan precisely activities which meet their developmental needs and appeal to their interests.  Parents feel incredibly well supported by staff in supporting children's well-being. For example, they welcome warmly the support given in promoting positive behaviour. Staff include parents greatly in children's learning to benefit children's overall development.  Children, including those who speak English as an additional language and those who have special educational needs, progress very well from their starting points. They receive excellent support in developing their self-confidence and become extremely effective learners.  Children have excellent opportunities to be healthy. They have great opportunities for

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This provision is outstanding

daily exercise as they enjoy space to run or practise physical skills, including hula hooping or football. Staff follow highly effective strategies to ensure children learn how to keep themselves healthy, including how to care for their teeth.  The manager is fully committed to ensuring every child meets their full potential. She rigorously monitors children's progress and plans highly effective inventions for those not meeting the expected outcomes for their ages. Gaps in progress close rapidly. Where groups of children make less progress than others, incisive action is taken.

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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

 offer children even more opportunities to experience different languages in both written and spoken form.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed activities inside and outdoors.  The inspector talked with staff, children and the manager at appropriate times throughout the inspection.  The inspector looked at children's assessment records, staff planning documentation and checked evidence of the suitability and qualifications of staff.  The inspector took account of the views of parents spoken to on the day of the inspection.  The inspector carried out a joint observation of children's learning and staff practice, with the manager.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The manager and staff team exude confidence in their knowledge of safeguarding procedures, including how to recognise when a child's welfare is at risk and what to do if they have a concern. The manager evaluates practice meticulously and plans perceptive actions to drive change. For example, when she noticed minor weaknesses in teaching, she supported the staff to improve through highly focused performance management. The manager astutely targets training to boost outcomes for children. Where staff are unqualified, she ensures they have the knowledge and skills to be extremely effective teachers. The manager uses additional funding for children from deprived backgrounds perceptively to meet the children's needs.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff show exceptional skill in acting on children's interests as they emerge in play. For example, when children engage in building role play, staff cleverly suggest that the children become building inspectors. Children give meaning to the marks they make as they assess the quality of the buildings being created. They have excellent opportunities to develop early literacy skills. Staff consistently show great skill in promoting language development. They willingly learn techniques though the strong partnerships they have with other professionals and bring these into practice to maximise learning for children. Staff provide children with an extensive range of resources and experiences to help them understand differences that exist between people. For example, children recognise that families can be structured in diverse ways. However, they do not have a wide range of opportunities to explore and hear different languages from around the world.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The staff are enthusiastic and have wonderful relationships with the children. Children merrily rush into their sessions, eager to come. They show they feel extremely safe and secure. Staff act as excellent role models for children, work solidly as a team and interact warmly with children and each other. Children behave impeccably and care about each other greatly. For example, they look after and protect each other's toys. Staff follow painstaking routines to ensure children find the move to other settings, such as school, easy. They ensure children are fully equipped for the differences in routines. For example, they make sure they can change for physical exercise lessons and help them to learn how to keep their clothes together once they take these off.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children have excellent problem-solving skills, for example, as they work out how to make the towers they build less wobbly and test out different techniques. Children develop many skills for future learning. They show a great command of early numeracy skills. For instance, they work out how many bricks they need to complete tasks and begin to add as they catch fish in a game. Children have excellent social skills. They consistently choose to work together and ensure everyone gets included equally.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY501780 Local authority West Sussex Inspection number 1055322 Type of provision Sessional 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 43 Name of registered person Helen Anne Laker

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Date of previous inspection Not applicable Telephone number 07515 901712

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Badgers Nursery School registered in 2016. The nursery operates from Hanbury Park Stadium, Haywards Heath, West Sussex. The nursery is open on Mondays and Fridays from 9.15am to 12.15pm and on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9.15am to 2.45pm, during the school term. The provider is in receipt of funding to offer free early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children. The provider employs six members of staff, including the owner, who is a qualified primary school teacher and has early years professional status. Three other staff hold relevant 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.

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