Setting EY501403

Report for childcare on domestic premises

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Inspection date 25 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 well-established team of staff is enthusiastic, highly motivated and takes great pride in its work. Staff are sensitive and caring towards the children and meet their individual needs extremely well. Children develop exceptionally strong attachments with their key person. n Children make rapid progress in their learning and development. Children are highly motivated, eager to learn and are effective communicators. For example, they confidently talk to each and express their views as they take part in games together. n Staff complete very detailed and accurate observations and assessments of the children. They plan stimulating and exciting activities based around children's interests and ideas. Children have excellent opportunities to develop their early literacy skills. For example, they enjoy using the white boards in the outside play space to practise making marks and writing their names. Staff are quick to recognise when children

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The provision is outstanding

require extra support or challenge in their learning. n There are excellent partnerships with parents, carers and staff at other early years settings that children attend. Information is shared with parents on a regular basis and staff encourage them to share what the child has achieved at home. Parents have regular access to children's progress checks. n The owner/manager and staff regularly evaluate practice and work hard to ensure they are providing high-quality teaching throughout the nursery. They regularly meet to discuss improvements and changes that can be made to the provision for the benefit of the children.

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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 continue to build on ways to support younger children during times of routine changes.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

Inspection activities n The inspector observed activities and staff interactions with the children, in the inside and outside learning environment. n The inspector had a meeting with the owner/manager and conducted a joint observation with her. n The inspector spoke to staff, children and parents at appropriate times during the inspection. n The inspector checked the evidence of the suitability and qualifications of staff working and the suitability of adults living on the premises. She also looked at the provider's improvement plan. n The inspector sampled a range of documentation, including children's records, safeguarding procedures, and written policies and procedures.

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is outstanding

The owner/manager and staff have an excellent understanding about all aspects of safeguarding. They are fully aware of the procedures to follow to keep children safe, including the close monitoring of children's non-attendance. Rigorous recruitment, thorough induction processes, regular in-depth supervision and monitoring of staff performance support the high-quality teaching practices. Safeguarding is effective. The owner/manager has a sharp focus on staff training. She supports staff to share ideas and drive improvement, such as looking at new ways to share information with other settings children attend, to improve consistency between them. The owner/manager has a detailed tracking process to help her quickly identify and close any gaps in children's learning. Parents speak very highly about the care staff provide, and the exceptionally good information sharing that helps them to support their child's learning at home even

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is outstanding

further. They also comment about the extremely good progress their children make at the nursery.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff use high-quality observations, assessments and planning to identify children's progress and next steps very accurately. Activities are exciting and stimulating for the children. For example, children thoroughly enjoy developing their early mark-making skills as they sit with staff and draw. Staff ask probing questions to help children think, develop their ideas and recall their experiences. Staff are skilled in helping children to develop their communication and language skills further. For example, young children enthusiastically join in with storytelling and recall the story well even though they have not heard it often. The owner/manager and staff recognise that the new and younger children need more help in coping with routine changeovers.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Excellent settling-in processes help children to settle very quickly and build extremely strong bonds with their key person. Children have the same key person throughout their time at the provision, supporting their emotional well-being exceptionally well. Staff are very caring, gentle and calm in their approach with the children. Children have excellent social skills. They are exceptionally well behaved and make friends very quickly. Children thoroughly enjoy the highly stimulating, exciting and interesting environment, indoors and outdoors. Resources are very well organised for all children to develop their learning independently as they play. Children enjoy being active and developing their physical skills, such as when they use balancing beams and stepping logs. Staff offer support for the less confident children, using exceptionally good encouragement to build children's confidence even further.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children are prepared exceptionally well for their next stages in learning and eventual move to school. Their confidence, independence and communication develop excellently alongside the well-targeted support from staff. Children are confident to express their ideas and choices as they play. They acquire exceptional concentration and listening skills.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY501403 Local authority Gloucestershire Inspection number 10067462 Type of provision Full day care Registers Early Years Register Day care type Childcare on domestic premises Age range of children 2 - 3 Total number of places 21 Number of children on roll 40

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Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Puddleduck Hall Day Nursery registered in 1986 and re-registered in 2016. It operates in the village of Hardwicke, near Gloucester. The nursery is open Monday to Friday from 8am until 4pm, except for public holidays, two weeks over Christmas and New Year, and four weeks in August. It receives funding for free early education for children aged two, three and four years. A team of seven staff, including the owner/manager, works directly with the children. There are three staff who have appropriate childcare qualifications at level 3, one member of staff has gained early years professional status and one member of staff has gained qualified teacher status. The owner/manager is a qualified primary and early years teacher who holds early years professional status.

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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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