Chiddingstone Nursery School

Chiddingstone Nursery School Chiddingstone Castle, Hill Hoath Road, Chiddingstone, Edenbridge, Kent TN8 7AD

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Inspection date 15 May 2019 Previous inspection date 28 April 2015

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Previous inspection: Outstanding 1 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 establish outstanding relationships with children. They get to know children's individual personalities extremely well. This helps children settle rapidly and be extremely confident and exceptionally happy during their time at the setting. n Staff build and maintain incredibly good partnerships with parents and keep them exceptionally well informed about their children's learning. They share training and activity ideas daily. For example, they make leaflets to inform parents about early numeracy and literacy and how they can support their children to enjoy these at home. n The manager and staff evaluate their practice exceptionally well. For instance, they fully include children in their daily reflection meetings and gather their feedback daily. They use their findings to keep children fascinated in their inspiring learning opportunities. n The manager and staff monitor and track children's individual and differing group

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This provision is outstanding

progress incredibly well. This supports them to rapidly identify any gaps and provide outstanding support for children to exceed their learning expectations. n Children have outstanding opportunities to gain reading skills. For example, they explore an extensive range of reading materials in both the indoor and outdoor environments. This includes books and labels in other languages, such as Romanian. n Staff are inspirational role models. Children are extremely polite and their behaviour is impeccable. Children add to the rules and follow them with excellent independence.

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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 strengthen the already excellent opportunities children have to develop their respect and understanding of other people's similarities and differences outside of their own communities and beliefs.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

n The inspector observed staff interacting with children. n The inspector viewed the indoor and outdoor environments children use. n The inspector looked at written documentation, including a sample of the policies and procedures, risk assessments and staff training records. n The inspector spoke to children, parents and staff, and took their views into consideration. n The inspector carried out a joint observation with the manager and discussed the impact of the staff's teaching on children's learning.

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is outstanding

The manager and staff attend incredibly beneficial training to enhance their practice and build on their already excellent skills and knowledge. For instance, they have learned how to support all children to develop their communication skills in extensive ways. This includes implementing den-making activities to provide children with more inviting spaces to encourage them to be extremely confident to communicate their ideas. The manager closely monitors the consistency of care and teaching staff provide for children. She observes staff daily and they hold regular meetings to set exceptionally challenging targets to keep children enthralled in their learning. The manager highlights that she intends to enhance children's respect and understanding of other people's similarities and differences even further. Safeguarding is effective. The manager and staff have an exceptionally comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the safeguarding policies

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is outstanding

to help protect children's safety and welfare. They teach children how to keep themselves safe. For example, they provide them with age-appropriate leaflets and lessons to learn how to remain safe when using the internet.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff establish extremely positive partnerships with staff at other settings children also attend. For instance, they hold weekly discussions to set next steps in children's learning together. Staff expertly help prepare children for their eventual move to school. For instance, school children regularly visit the setting to share their stories and answer any questions younger children may have. Children are extremely independent and learn more complicated skills, such as doing up their shoelaces and ties. Staff are extremely good at extending children's ideas and interests. For example, when children are enthralled in a book about vegetables, they go on to cook vegetable soup. They learn about other items that may begin with the letter 'V' and staff organise the local violin class to come into the setting. Children visit the castle grounds and artefacts weekly to learn about history.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children have outstanding opportunities to challenge their physical skills. They learn how to negotiate different ways to move with excellent confidence, including using stilts and stacking bricks, and using tyres to climb and balance on. Children learn about the importance of healthy eating in extraordinary ways. For example, they have an extremely active role in harvesting healthy produce such as peas, beans and leeks. Children have excellent opportunities to be creative. For instance, they squash picked blackberries to make tie-dye art.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

All children make outstanding progress. Children are extremely confident to discuss percentages and fractions as they cut fruit. They have exceptionally good opportunities to complete extremely challenging activities that require incredible maturity. For example, children use real tools such as knives to engage in whittling activities and they excitedly explore wildlife as they are fascinated by pond dipping experiences.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY295610 Local authority Kent Inspection number 10104237 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 Sessional day care Age range of children 2 - 5 Total number of places 20 Number of children on roll 39 Name of registered person Chiddingstone Nursery School Committee

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Date of previous inspection 28 April 2015 Telephone number 01892 871315

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Chiddingstone Nursery School registered in 2004. It is located in the grounds of Chiddinsgtone Castle in Edenbridge, Kent. The setting is open Monday to Thursday from 9am to 3pm and on Friday from 9am to midday, term time only. The provider receives funding to provide free early education for children aged two, three and four years. The setting employs nine members of staff, six of whom hold relevant early years qualifications at level 3 or above. This includes one member of staff who has an early years degree at level 6.

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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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