Explorers Childcare Ltd

Explorers Childcare Ltd Rad Valley Road, Shrewsbury SY3 8AL

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Inspection date 20 September 2018 Previous inspection date Not applicable

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Previous inspection: Not applicable Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 1 Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1 Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1 Outcomes for children Outstanding 1

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The provision is outstanding

n The highly successful management team has an excellent determination to achieve and maintain the highest standards of care and learning for children. n Performance management of staff is robust. Staff understand how to further enhance their already outstanding teaching. Leaders precisely target professional development for staff to build on their first-class knowledge and skills. n Leaders are passionate about preparing children as well as possible for starting school. They work closely with a range of professionals to develop strategies of how best to teach children skills for their future learning. Leaders share this knowledge with staff to enable them to support children's outstanding progress in readiness for school. n Teaching is exemplary. It is highly responsive to every child's needs. Staff help children to rapidly grasp new skills when they start, including their speech development. n Staff provide many experiences that significantly broaden children's understanding of

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The provision is outstanding

the world. For instance, they take them to meet with elderly residents in the community. Staff also teach children how to speak French to help promote their cultural awareness. n Children's health, welfare and well-being are central to staff's practice. For example, when children arrive each day staff check on their emotional well-being by establishing how they feel about the day. Hygiene routines are very well-imbedded, and staff take the time to explain to children ways to be healthy. n Children's behaviour is excellent. From a young age, staff help children to solve minor disagreements independently and positively.

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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

n enhance the already excellent support for parents to share detailed information about all that their children know, and can do when they start attending, to further strengthen the robust assessment of children's starting points.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

Inspection activities n The inspector observed the quality of teaching during activities indoors and outdoors and assessed the impact on children's learning. He discussed with staff the progress of children and the arrangements to reduce differences for groups of children. n The inspector spoke with staff and children during the inspection. He considered the views of parents. n The inspector completed a joint observation with one of the owners. He discussed self- evaluation, staff performance management and professional development with the leaders. n The inspector held a meeting with the owners. He looked at relevant documentation and evidence of the suitability of staff working in the pre-school. n The inspector had a tour of the pre-school. He joined children's play and spoke with staff about the arrangements for safeguarding.

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is outstanding

Staff are critical of, and reflective on, practice. The views of others are well-rooted in evaluation. The actions that leaders take to improve the pre-school, lead to a provision centred around the needs of children. Partnership working is highly effective. Staff go above and beyond to work with the providers of other settings children attend. For example, they continually share information with them and invite them to observe the children at the pre-school. This helps to provide seamless continuity for children between all settings they attend. Leaders effectively target additional support to help children who have special educational needs and/or disabilities to rapidly catch up. They work hard to identify and reduce any differences for groups of children, such as boy's toileting skills in readiness for school. Safeguarding is effective. Staff have an expert knowledge of child protection procedures and they act quickly to promote children's welfare.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff provide rich, varied and imaginative experiences for children. This helps them to concentrate on learning for much longer than expected for their age. Staff work hard with parents to successfully involve them in their children's learning. They have recently identified ways to further increase parent's involvement in the assessment of their children's starting points. Although, they have not fully implemented these plans. Staff make quick interventions in children's learning when required and parents comment that they feel fully involved in this process. Staff expertly teach children the skills they need for the next stage in their learning. For example, they provide activities that help young children to understand language, empty and fill containers with water and play alongside others. Staff introduce other skills to children that they will need to become successful future learners, including recognising words that rhyme and the concept of size.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The environment is highly stimulating. Children who start attending feel immediately secure in the pre-school. This helps to give them the confidence to extend their own play, such as independently accessing toys. Children show extremely high levels of engagement and motivation and they are very curious about different concepts. Staff give children meaningful praise. This helps them to develop confidence in their own abilities as they understand what they can achieve well. Staff go the extra mile to support children to feel fully prepared for their eventual move to school. They help children to feel emotionally secure in their new school, such as by visiting with them.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children make extremely high rates of progress in relation to their starting points. They can make marks and give meanings to them. Differences in outcomes for groups of children are diminishing quickly. Young children quickly learn and repeat single words. All children are highly motivated learners who thrive in this outstanding pre-school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY536758 Local authority Shropshire Inspection number 10076785 Type of provision Full day care Registers Early Years Register Day care type Childcare on non-domestic premises Age range of children 2 - 4 Total number of places 24 Number of children on roll 34 Name of registered person Explorers Childcare Ltd

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Date of previous inspection Not applicable Telephone number 07805 216411

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Explorers Childcare Ltd registered in 2016. It operates from a shared use premises. The provider operates three settings. The pre-school opens from Monday to Friday, from 9am until 2.45pm, during term times only. There are 10 staff employed to work with the children. Of these, all hold appropriate qualifications at level 2 or above, including one who is an early years teacher. The pre-school receives funding to provide free early education for children aged two, three and four years.

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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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