Beehive Playgroup

Beehive Playgroup Bush Road, Cuxton, Rochester, Kent, ME2 1EY

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 14 June 2018 6 July 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 Good 2

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This provision is good

 Staff get to know children's individual personalities well. They establish good relationships with children. Children have positive levels of well-being and self-worth.  Staff keep parents fully involved in their children's learning. For example, they regularly encourage them to add to their children's learning records, such as sharing photographs from home.  The manager and staff closely monitor and track the progress of individual and specific groups of children. This enables them to highlight any gaps in children's development promptly and provide children with good support to help them catch up quickly.  Staff effectively support children to develop good communication and language skills. For instance, they reinforce the correct pronunciation of words respectfully.  Children have good opportunities to develop their physical skills. For example, they climb and balance on interesting equipment, such as balancing beams, tyres and stilts.

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This provision is good

 All children develop good early mathematical skills to support their future learning. Younger children count as they play and older children complete simple sums.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 Staff do not consistently organise large-group activities to ensure that all children remain engaged in their learning opportunities.  Staff miss some opportunities to encourage children to fully understand the consequences of their actions to build on their social skills even further.

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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

 review and improve the organisation of large-group activities to help keep all children fully engaged in their learning experiences  extend children's opportunities to fully understand the consequences of their behaviour and resolve minor conflicts more maturely.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed staff interacting with the children.  The inspector viewed the indoor and outdoor environments.  The inspector looked at written documentation, including a sample of policies and procedures, risk assessments and staff training records.  The inspector spoke with children, parents and staff, and took their views into consideration.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

The manager closely monitors the consistency and quality of care and teaching that staff provide children. For example, she observes staff interact with children and provides them with helpful advice to support their practice. The manager and staff effectively review their practice together. For instance, they evaluate the activities daily and discuss how well children are motivated to learn. All staff are keen to build on their knowledge and skills even further. Staff attend a good range of beneficial training. For example, they learned about the different ways to support children and parents to understand the importance of healthy eating. Staff use additional funding effectively to meet children's individual learning needs. For instance, they have purchased additional equipment to extend children's interest in technology. Safeguarding is effective. The manager and staff have a good knowledge of the safeguarding and child protection procedures to follow to help

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

protect children's safety and welfare. This includes knowing whom to contact to raise and follow up any concerns.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

Staff establish positive partnerships with other early years professionals. For example, they regularly share children's achievements with other settings they also attend. This helps provide children with a good consistent approach to their shared care and learning. Staff effectively help children to prepare for their eventual move to school. They support children to develop their reading skills. For instance, younger children recognise letters and older children write simple words with confidence. Children have good opportunities to be creative. For example, younger children explore marks in interesting ways like using cars in paint. Older children explore more complex artistic ideas, such as drawing self- portraits.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Staff build on children's ideas well. For instance, when children show an interest in shops during their role play, staff take them to visit the local shop. Staff encourage children to learn about the value of money. Children develop a good understanding of healthy lifestyles. For example, they follow good health and hygiene routines and discuss the importance of washing off germs before they eat. Children learn about other people's similarities and differences from around the world. For instance, they learn about a range of festivals and events, such as Diwali.

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Outcomes for children are good

All children, including those who speak English as an additional language, make good progress in relation to their starting points. Children develop good friendships and social skills. For example, they are polite and play happily together. Children learn about the natural world. For instance, they enjoy watching worms burrow tunnels in soil and eagerly wait for caterpillars to grow into butterflies.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 103783 Local authority Medway Towns Inspection number 1126463 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 2 - 11 Total number of places 40 Number of children on roll 145 Name of registered person Beehive Playgroup Committee

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Date of previous inspection 6 July 2015 Telephone number 01634 723086

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Beehive Playgroup registered in 1989. It operates in the grounds of Cuxton Community Infants School in the village of Cuxton, in Rochester, Kent. The setting is open Monday to Friday from 7.45am to 6pm all year round, as the setting offers a holiday club out of term time. The provider receives funding to provide free early education for children aged two, three and four years. The setting employs 17 members of staff, nine of whom hold relevant early years qualifications at level 3 or above.This includes one member of staff who has an early years qualification at level 4, one who has an early years qualification at level 5 and one member of staff who holds early years professional status. Five members of staff have a level two qualification and three members of staff are unqualified.

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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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