Rivelin Playgroup

Rivelin Playgroup Rivelin Primary School, Morley Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S6 2PL

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 11 July 2018 14 January 2015

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This inspection: Inadequate 4

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Inadequate 4

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This inspection: Inadequate 4

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 2

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This inspection: Inadequate 4

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Inadequate 4

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This provision is inadequate

 The provider has failed to supply Ofsted with the required information to allow it to check the suitability of all committee members.  Staff do not have an up-to-date knowledge of the 'Prevent' duty guidance.  Children's safety is compromised. Daily safety checks are ineffective in making sure that significant potential hazards to children in the outdoor space are identified and minimised.  Staff do not gather detailed information from parents about children's development and skills when they start at the playgroup, to better inform planning from the outset.  Some staff are not as highly skilled as others in using assessment systems to give a clear picture of children's achievements.  The manager has not yet implemented a system to track and monitor the progress that different groups of children are making.

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It has the following strengths

 Children develop strong relationships with staff and other children. They settle well and show that they feel emotionally secure and confident in the welcoming, nurturing environment provided by staff. Parents receive good verbal information about the activities in which their children take part.  Staff organise the inside environment effectively. This helps children to consolidate recent learning, practise new skills and follow their own interests.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

To meet the requirements of the early years foundation stage and the Childcare Register the provider must:

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Due Date

 ensure that Ofsted is supplied with the required information to check the suitability of all committee members 13/07/2018

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 develop staff's knowledge and understanding of the 'Prevent' duty guidance 05/09/2018

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 take action to ensure that the outdoor spaces are safe and fit for the purpose of children's play 05/09/2018

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 use risk assessment effectively to ensure children's safety and take action to remove or minimise any hazards identified. 05/09/2018

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To further improve the quality of the early years provision the provider should:

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 gather more information from parents about what children already know and can do when they first start, to help plan swiftly and precisely for individual children's learning  support staff in using assessment systems to reflect children's development clearly and target planning to help close any gaps in learning at an even faster rate  extend the monitoring of children's development to compare the progress made by different groups of children.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector conducted a joint observation with the playgroup manager.  The inspector observed activities and assessed the quality of teaching.  The inspector held meetings with the provider's nominated individual, who is also the manager of the playgroup. She held discussions with other staff members about their roles and responsibilities, including safeguarding.  The inspector took account of the views of parents.  The inspector checked evidence of the suitability and qualifications of staff working with children.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is inadequate

The safety and well-being of children is not assured. The provider is in breach of legal requirements of both the Early Years Register and the Childcare Register. Arrangements for safeguarding are ineffective. The provider's nominated individual, who is also the manager, has failed to inform Ofsted of changes to committee members. Ofsted have not been supplied with the relevant information to ensure that suitability checks can be completed. Members of the committee who have not been vetted visit the playgroup regularly and the chair of the committee has been given safeguarding responsibilities. This has the potential to put the children being cared for at significant risk. The manager has failed to update her own and staff's knowledge of the 'Prevent' duty guidance. Nevertheless, the manager is familiar with the Local Safeguarding Children Board procedures. She understands her responsibility in reporting child protection concerns and

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is inadequate

any allegation made against a member of staff. Staff attend training and have an appropriate understanding of signs and symptoms of abuse. The manager understands the importance of ensuring that staff are suitable to work with children. Systems for the induction and supervision of staff and weekly team meetings help to make improvements to staff's practice. The staff have good, well-established relationships with other professionals in the host school. Staff use these positive working partnerships to help prepare children emotionally for the move on to nursery or school. The manager and committee meet regularly to identify and make some improvements to the provision.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

Staff use information they collect from parents about children's likes and dislikes when they first start in the setting to help children to settle in. However, they do not obtain detailed information about what children already know and can do, to inform initial planning. Staff make regular observations of children's achievements in their learning. Overall, they are familiar with the playgroup's systems for tracking children's progress. However, some staff are not yet highly skilled in using the systems to show children's development well. Even so, staff meet weekly to discuss children's interests and individual needs, to plan for their ongoing learning. The manager works closely with her staff team and provides regular supervision sessions to discuss their key children's care and learning. However, she has not yet developed highly successful ways of monitoring the progress that groups of children make, to target and rapidly close any gaps in learning. Staff know

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

how young children learn. They focus on all aspects of children's learning when they plan the environment. Staff engage in conversations with children as they play, to sustain children's interest and promote their speaking and listening skills. They deepen children's learning as they share books with them that link to their interests.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are inadequate

All children have daily opportunities to play outdoors. However, a newly created digging area filled with very small stones has not been sufficiently risk assessed. Staff have not identified that children are exposed to a significant risk of choking. Even so, staff are good role models. They provide clear guidance for children about acceptable behaviour and support them in playing cooperatively together. They help children to develop an understanding of the playgroup's rules and how to follow them. For example, children recognise and respond well when staff indicate a change in the daily routine. Children make independent choices and negotiate with others to decide with what to play.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children make good progress in their learning. They grow in confidence and ability as they develop their own ideas for doing things and begin to solve problems. They learn how adding white paint to colours they have mixed affects the shade by lightening it. Children develop early literacy skills. They recall familiar stories and enjoy listening to songs and rhymes, joining in with actions and repeated refrains. Children make marks using the wide range of resources freely available to them. They confidently give meaning to the marks they make. The most able children identify familiar letters and write their names. Children count and are beginning to estimate quantities. They develop an understanding of living things and enjoy searching outside for creatures.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 503523 Local authority Sheffield Inspection number 1091077 Type of provision Sessional provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 2 - 4 Total number of places 20 Number of children on roll 27 Name of registered person Rivelin Playgroup Committee

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Date of previous inspection 14 January 2015 Telephone number 07761 348 933

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Rivelin Playgroup registered in 2001. It operates from Rivelin Primary School in Sheffield, and is managed by a committee. The playgroup employs three members of staff. Of these, one holds an appropriate early years qualification at level 4, one at level 3 and one at level 2. The playgroup opens Monday to Friday during term time only, from 9am until 11.30am. It provides a lunch club from 11.30am until 12.30pm.

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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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