Hatherley Pre-School

Hatherley Pre-School Hatherley Scout Hut, Penrith Road, Cheltenham, Glos GL51 3QB

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Inspection date 10 May 2019 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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This provision is outstanding

n The manager uses superb systems for monitoring staff's skills and sustaining their continuing professional development. Recent courses on planning and special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) help staff to improve their already excellent teaching skills, and support the best possible outcomes for all children. n The manager seeks, and uses, feedback from children, parents and staff exceptionally well to make improvements. For example, she has reorganised the outdoor environment and added resources for children to explore nature. Children show high levels of concentration and curiosity and are very eager to join in. n Staff observe children closely and make highly accurate assessments of their development. They swiftly identify children who need extra help, including those with medical needs or with SEND. Any gaps in learning and development close rapidly and children make excellent progress from their starting points.

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This provision is outstanding

n Key persons support children and parents brilliantly from the outset. Staff offer individually tailored settling-in sessions to help them get to know children and parents extremely well. Children form secure attachments with their key person and develop fantastic levels of confidence and self-esteem. n The manager and staff build exceptionally strong partnerships with schools and other professionals. They act on advice and guidance extremely well to make sure outcomes for children are highly successful, and they support their move on to school effectively. n Staff provide excellent opportunities for children to think, and solve problems, as they play. For example, they ask insightful questions, challenge children to continue trying new skills and extend their ideas through suggesting alternative actions. Children are highly motivated to learn and achieve extremely well.

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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 the already superb support to encourage children to care for their environments more, and not just during specific times in the routine.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

n The inspector observed the quality of teaching, indoors and outdoors. n The inspector took into account the views of parents, by speaking to them on the day of the inspection and through written testimonials. n The inspector carried out a joint evaluation of the activities children took part in, with the manager. n The inspector spoke with the manager, staff and children at appropriate times during the inspection. n The inspector looked at samples of paperwork, including staff qualifications, risk assessments, policies and procedures, children's learning and development files, and children's records.

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is outstanding

The manager and staff regularly exchange information with parents about what children do in the setting, and at home, to provide exceptionally consistent experiences which help children learn and develop extremely well. They are constantly seeking to improve the setting. For example, they have added a mud kitchen, tyres for balancing and tools to help children investigate the natural world, to the outdoor area. Safeguarding is effective. Staff know how to act to keep children safe, including when children become ill or need urgent medical attention.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Key persons have outstanding knowledge of their children and plan exceptionally well to extend children's learning through following their interests. For example, staff create a number activity to encourage counting, recognising numerals and working out simple sums using laminated cards with glass slippers on. Older children confidently find the correct number and can tell staff that one more than five is six. Younger children experiment with sounds as they explore musical instruments. They investigate what happens when they play loudly or softly and make connections with things they have heard. For instance, they comment that some sound like a frog croaking, or rain falling, or the waves on a beach. Staff focus on helping children to acquire excellent language and communication skills. For instance, as they share stories with children, they offer them new words, encourage them to retell the tale, or predict what happens next using

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children eagerly explore the highly stimulating environments and make confident decisions about how, and where, they want to play. They are competent at putting on wellingtons and waterproofs to play outdoors. Staff promote children's understanding of nature and caring for others highly successfully. For example, older children explain that they have put grass and leaves in the collecting jar, so the snails have food to eat. Staff encourage all children to think about good food choices and healthy lifestyles. This includes through encouraging physical activity, providing real food in the role-play area and encouraging them to drink water in hot weather. On occasion, the indoor play space becomes cluttered with toys and equipment. Staff miss chances to encourage children to put away toys or resources when they have finished playing with them unless it is at specific tidying-up times.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children are keen to explore and learn as soon as they arrive. All children make excellent progress from their starting points. Older children show considerable kindness to younger children. For example, when playing a game of chase, the older children let younger ones catch them. Younger children experiment with the play dough recognising different-shaped cutters, such as a circle, square and triangle. All children share extremely well, for instance when they pass each other tools and take turns to fill a container to plant the peas, add in the seeds, then cover and water them.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY539002 Local authority Gloucestershire Inspection number 10090122 Type of provision Childcare on non-domestic premises Registers Early Years Register Day care type Sessional day care Age range of children 2 - 4 Total number of places 20 Number of children on roll 27 Name of registered person Chapman, Justine Louise

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Date of previous inspection Not applicable Telephone number 07847 476608

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Hatherley Pre-School registered in 2017. It operates from Hatherley Scout Hut, Cheltenham. The pre-school is open Monday to Friday, from 8.45am to 2.45pm, term time only. There are four members of staff who work with the children. The manager holds an appropriate childcare qualification at level 5, two staff hold appropriate childcare qualifications at level 3 and one holds an appropriate childcare qualification at level 2. 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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