Happy Days Club & Nursery School Limited

Happy Days Club & Nursery School Limited Hermitage Primary School, Hermitage Drive, Holmes Chapel, CREWE CW4 7NP

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Inspection date 26 April 2019 Previous inspection date 12 May 2016

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Previous inspection: Good 2 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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This provision is outstanding

n Staff are enthusiastic and demonstrate superb levels of care and warmth towards children. This significantly enhances children's ability to settle into the setting quickly and become ready to learn. Staff use high levels of meaningful praise throughout the day. This promotes children's sense of self-esteem and embeds their emotional attachments, empathy for one another and their positive behaviour. n Staff develop exemplary relationships with parents. For instance, they provide parents with initial home visits. This ensures staff gain pertinent information about what each child already knows and can do from the outset. Staff skilfully use this information, alongside their own baseline assessments, to identify concise starting points for each child. n Staff develop highly professional relationships with other providers, including the on- site school. For example, staff give the utmost priority to the sharing of comprehensive

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This provision is outstanding

information between both parties. This fosters a high level of consistency and continuity for each child's care and learning. Outcomes for children are excellent. n The provider ensures that all staff consistently receive one-to-one meetings with the manager. This ensures that staff are provided with regular opportunities to discuss their training needs, their key children and any concerns they may have. Staff undertake an extensive range of in-house and off-site training opportunities. They share their new learning and fresh ideas with others during staff meetings. n The provider works closely with the manager and staff to meticulously monitor the educational programme for children. Together, they expertly track individual and groups of children, ensuring any gaps in learning are swiftly closed. This, and regular observations of staff practice, ensures that teaching provides optimal challenge for all

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This provision is outstanding

children and fosters their rapid progress.

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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 develop the highly effective partnerships with parents that extend home learning opportunities for all children even further.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

n The inspector observed the quality of teaching during activities indoors and outdoors and assessed the impact this has on children's learning. n The inspector spoke with staff and children during the inspection. n The inspector completed a joint observation with the provider. n The inspector held a meeting with the provider and the manager. She looked at relevant documentation and evidence of the suitability of staff working in the nursery. n The inspector spoke with parents during the inspection and took account of their views.

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is outstanding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. Staff consistently keep their child protection training updated, which includes exploring the wider aspects of safeguarding children. They have an in-depth knowledge about how to protect the welfare of all children. Staff are vigilant in checking all indoor and outdoor areas of the setting to ensure children's safety. The provider ensures that the manager, all staff, parents and their children are included in the excellent self-evaluation procedures. The provider has identified that there is the potential to work even closer with parents to promote children's ongoing home learning to an even higher level. She recognises that this will continue to promote excellent outcomes for all children.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Younger children are consistently challenged by the staff that care for them. For example, staff use early mathematical language with the younger children and encourage them to identify size and colour. Staff skilfully extend their learning further as they support them to count and to match shapes. Younger children become very excited as they use their imagination and investigate at the mud kitchen. Here, they use tools and containers as they mix mud, water and leaves to make their own concoctions. Staff use highly innovative strategies to challenge older children's learning about the world around them. For example, older children are encouraged to talk about their plants that they bring in from home. Staff support them exceptionally well as they use a range of questioning techniques and props to encourage their thinking. Children become engrossed as staff draw parts of a plant on the board. They confidently identify and

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

name the stem, roots and flower head and, when asked, talk about bees taking the pollen. During such times, staff encourage the older children to identify concepts of 'big' and 'small', 'long' and 'short' and 'on top' and 'underground'. Children are highly motivated and take turns to speak. This promotes their readiness for school very well.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

All children are very well supported as they take manageable risks in their play. They move freely between the indoor and outdoor areas throughout the day. Outdoors, they practise climbing and balancing with enthusiasm and become increasingly competent at riding their tricycles. Indoors, children have great fun as they cut up fruits and vegetables to make superhero characters to eat at snack times. During such times, staff speak to children about the benefits of healthy eating. Children develop an exceedingly good understanding about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

All children, including those with special educational needs, progress rapidly from their starting points. They thoroughly enjoy outings in the local community, including visits to a home for the elderly, where they present their art work to the residents. This helps to promote children's emerging empathy for others. Younger children develop their love of books very well as they listen intently during story times. Older children develop an excellent 'can-do' attitude as they skilfully read, write their name and make marks using paints, crayons and chalks in the indoor and outdoor environments throughout the day.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY417571 Local authority Cheshire East Inspection number 10074619 Type of provision Childcare on non-domestic premises

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Registers

Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Day care type Full day care Age range of children 2 - 11 Total number of places 32 Number of children on roll 82 Name of registered person Happy Days Club & Nursery School Limited

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Date of previous inspection 12 May 2016 Telephone number 01477 549 002

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Happy Days Club & Nursery School Limited registered in 2010 and is one of two settings operated by a private provider. The nursery employs nine members of childcare staff. Of these, one holds an appropriate early years qualification at level 6, two hold qualifications at level 4 and five hold qualifications at level 3. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday during school term time. Sessions are from 8am until 6pm. The out-of-school club operates from 8am until 9am and from 3pm until 6pm. The nursery provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.

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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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