Footprints Day Care

Footprints Day Care 2A Britannia Lane, Kingsnorth, Ashford, Kent TN23 3SU

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Inspection date 10 January 2019 Previous inspection date 8 March 2016

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This inspection: Good 2

Previous inspection: Good 2 Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 2 Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 2 Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 2 Outcomes for children Good 2

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This provision is good

n Staff effectively support all children to make good progress, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities. For example, they liaise closely with outside agencies, such as speech and language therapists, to share helpful strategies. n Staff get to know children and their individual personalities well. This helps children settle happily into their play. Children have a good sense of belonging. n All staff establish positive partnerships with parents and keep them informed of their children's learning. For instance, they share their achievements daily. n Children have good opportunities to develop their mathematical skills. For example, younger children enjoy number songs and older children complete simple sums. n There are good opportunities for children to develop their imaginations. They enjoy a wide range of role play, such as dressing up as their favourite book characters.

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This provision is good

n The manager and staff effectively review their practice. For instance, they evaluate their activity plans daily and include the feedback from children. Staff use their findings to support their future practice and help keep children motivated to learn. n Staff do not consistently support all children to extend their communication and language skills even further. n Staff miss some opportunities to develop children's writing skills to help prepare them for their eventual move to school.

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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 build on children's speaking and listening skills and provide them with enough time to think and respond to thought-provoking questions more consistently n extend children's opportunities to develop their early writing skills to support their future learning even further.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

Inspection activities n The inspector observed staff's interactions with children and assessed the impact this has on children's learning. n The inspector viewed the indoor and outdoor environments. n The inspector looked at written documentation, including evidence of the suitability of all those working at the nursery. n The inspector spoke to the manager, children, parents and staff, and considered their views. n The inspector carried out a joint observation with the manager.

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is good

The manager closely monitors the consistency of care and teaching that staff provide children. For example, she regularly observes staff interact with children and provides them with helpful advice to support their future performance. All staff are keen to build on their skills and knowledge further. For example, they have learned about the different ways to teach children how to manage their emotions. Staff establish positive partnerships with other early years professionals. For instance, they share children's achievements with staff at settings that the children also attend. This helps provide a good consistent approach to their shared care and learning. Staff use additional funding to support children's individual learning needs effectively, for example they purchased music classes to help develop children's confidence. Safeguarding is effective. The manager and staff have a good knowledge of the safeguarding policies and procedures

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is good

to follow to help protect children's safety and welfare and prevent them from harm.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

The manager and staff closely monitor and track individual and specific groups of children's progress. This enables them to highlight any gaps in learning promptly and provide children with good individual support to help close them quickly. Staff effectively support children to prepare for their eventual move to school. For example, younger children have a keen interest in books. Older children recognise simple words with confidence. Staff build on children's interests well. For instance, children explore shadows and go on to match shadow shapes to the shapes of characters in their favourite stories.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Children are polite and behave well. They play happily together and take turns and share resources maturely. Children have a good understanding of healthy eating. For example, they have an independent role in helping to prepare and serve healthy snacks. They have good opportunities to develop their physical skills. For example, older children climb and balance on larger equipment. Younger children explore different ways to move in daily musical movement sessions. Children explore other people's similarities and differences. For instance, they learn about different cultures traditional to other countries, such as baking Polish cakes that are a delicacy of Poland.

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Outcomes for children are good

All children make good progress in their learning in relation to their established starting points. Children develop good skills to support their future learning. For example, they are independent and confidently choose their own play. They participate in challenging activities that require good levels of responsibility and maturity. For instance, they use real tools safely, such as saws, drills and hammers in regular woodwork activities.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY305659 Local authority Kent Inspection number 10073517 Type of provision Full day care

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Registers

Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Day care type Childcare on non-domestic premises Age range of children 0 - 4 Total number of places 104 Number of children on roll 158 Name of registered person Ashford Play Centre Limited

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Date of previous inspection 8 March 2016 Telephone number 01233 652645

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Footprints Day Care registered in 2005. It is located in Ashford, Kent. The setting is open Monday to Friday from 7.45am to 6pm, all year around. It receives funding to provide free early education for children aged two, three and four years. The setting employs 32 members of staff, 28 of whom hold relevant early years qualifications at level 2 or above. This includes four members of staff who hold a qualification at level 4, one member of staff who has early years professional status and one member of staff who holds qualified teachers 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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