Kite Ridge

Kite Ridge Action For Children, Verney Avenue, High Wycombe HP12 3NE

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Inspection date 6 April 2019 Previous inspection date Not applicable

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This inspection: Good 2

Previous inspection: Not applicable 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 The management team is ambitious and strives to achieve high-quality provision. Managers have established clear procedures for monitoring and evaluating their service. For example, they complete annual audits of the provision and involve all staff in evaluations of systems and procedures. n Managers develop positive partnerships with staff at other settings that children attend. This is illustrated when they visit settings each term to share information about children's development and progress. This helps to promote a consistent approach to supporting children's needs. n Staff support children's behaviour and understanding of routines in the setting effectively. This is demonstrated when they use sign language and visual prompt cards to show children what is coming next. This helps children to begin to understand expectations and boundaries. n Children demonstrate positive attitudes to their play and learning. They make good

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This provision is good

progress from their starting points and this helps to prepare them for the next stages in their learning. n On occasion, staff do not use their knowledge of individual children's development effectively to challenge children to extend their learning. n Staff do not fully consider how they can support children to be more independent.

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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 ensure that staff use their knowledge of individual children's development to help them to challenge and extend children's learning more effectively n plan further opportunities for children to develop their independence.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

n The inspector had a tour of the setting. n The inspector observed the quality of staff interactions with children during activities indoors and outdoors. n The inspector completed a joint observation with the manager of the setting. n The inspector held a meeting with the management team. She discussed self- evaluation and plans for further improvement. She looked at relevant documentation, such as policies and procedures. She checked evidence of the suitability of staff working in the setting. n The inspector spoke to parents and considered their views.

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is good

Safeguarding is effective. Managers establish a range of robust policies and procedures. They ensure that staff understand these and know how to keep children safe. For instance, staff complete risk assessments at the start and end of sessions to ensure that all areas of the setting and resources are safe and suitable for children. They create individual fire evacuation plans and regularly practise fire evacuation procedures. Managers support staff effectively. They monitor the quality of teaching and conduct regular staff supervision meetings and appraisals. They organise appropriate training opportunities, which focus on raising the quality of teaching and outcomes for children. For example, staff attend autism spectrum disorder training. This has a positive impact on their practice. Staff use tools, such as social stories, to help to prepare children for change. Staff regularly seek and consider the views of parents. Following feedback from

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is good

parents, they have introduced a board displaying photographs of staff in each session, and activity information.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

Managers establish positive links with other professionals. This helps them to support children's individual needs well. For example, professionals, such as speech and language therapists, visit sessions and staff observe them working with children. Staff learn new strategies which they go on to use to support children's individual needs. Staff plan and monitor children's learning carefully to help to ensure that they make good progress. For instance, they create individual learning plans with targets for each child, and link these to their session planning. They review their observations of children's learning and progress at the end of each session. Staff create an inviting learning environment. Children enjoy exploring the wide range of resources on offer. For example, they play with building blocks and carefully place them one on top of each other to create towers. Staff talk to children about what they are doing, encouraging them to

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

compare the height of towers to their own height.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Staff develop positive partnerships with parents. They share information with them effectively. For instance, at the start of each session staff complete a detailed handover with parents. Parents share information about children's well-being and development. Staff share relevant information with colleagues. This helps them all to support children effectively. Staff support children's care needs and feelings well. For example, they give children comfort and cuddles to reassure them when they first join the session. They sing nursery rhymes to children during daily routines, such as nappy changing. Children have plenty of opportunities to play outdoors in the fresh air.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children develop secure physical skills. They climb up steps and push themselves down the slide. They pick up stampers and dip them in paint to make pictures. Children develop their personal and social skills well. They learn how to sit together and experience activities in a group, such as during song time. They develop their confidence and independence, beginning to choose their own resources.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY496810 Local authority Buckinghamshire Inspection number 10057224 Type of provision Childcare on non-domestic premises

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Registers

Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register Day care type Sessional day care Age range of children 3 - 5 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 17 Name of registered person Action For Children

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reference number

Date of previous inspection Not applicable Telephone number 01494 450 474

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Kite Ridge registered in 2016 and is located in High Wycombe. It offers care for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. It opens on alternate Saturdays throughout the year. Sessions run from 9.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30pm to 4.30pm. The setting employs 10 members of staff. Of these, one holds an appropriate qualification at level 6, two at level 5, two at level 4 and three at level 3.

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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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