Croft Pre School

Croft Pre School Scout & Guide H Q, Providence Row, Market Weighton, YORK YO43 3FE

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Inspection date 20 June 2019 Previous inspection date 17 May 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 The staff are committed to providing children with a range of high-quality experiences. They use their good knowledge of how children learn and develop to create a well- planned, stimulating environment closely matched to children's needs and interests. n The experienced manager provides ambitious and focused leadership to this well- established pre-school. She is well supported by the caring and reflective staff. n Staff use assessments effectively to monitor progress and build on children's capabilities and interests. Children are well taught and are provided with an interesting range of indoor and outdoor activities that challenge and engage all groups of children. As a result, all groups of children make good progress from their individual starting points. n The pre-school is very much part of the local community. Children participate in local events and charitable activities, which contributes to their personal and social

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This provision is good

awareness. n Staff are extremely good role models. They create an ethos of warmth and friendliness, which helps children develop self-confidence and very positive attitudes to learning. Children are well behaved and attentive to others. n Staff establish strong partnerships with parents. Parents are kept well informed about their child's progress. They work closely with staff to successfully support their child's learning at home. Parents speak very highly about the setting. n Occasionally, staff do not fully challenge children, particularly the most able, to apply their knowledge and skills through different activities in order to further reinforce their learning. n The manager does not make maximum use of her analysis of children's achievement to ensure all groups of learners make the strongest progress they are capable of.

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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 opportunities for children to use and apply the skills and knowledge they are developing throughout their different activities n build on the procedures to analyse the achievement of all groups of learners, to support all children to further strengthen their learning.

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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 pre-school manager. n The inspector held a meeting with the pre-school manager. He looked at relevant documentation and evidence of the suitability of staff working in the pre-school. n The inspector spoke to parents during the inspection and took account of their views.

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is good

The manager leads a committed and experienced team of staff who share a drive for sustained improvement. She supports staff to develop the quality of their teaching through, for example, observations of their practice and enabling them to access a range of training opportunities. An example of this is the strengthened support for developing procedures to assess children's learning through all aspects of their play. Staff form very strong links with other settings, which contributes to children's smooth transition to the next stage in their education. Safeguarding is effective. Staff are well deployed to supervise children and ensure they are safe at all times. They attend regular child protection training and ensure their knowledge and understanding are up to date. They know how to record a concern and make sure appropriate action is taken.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

Staff make good use of detailed information from parents to identify children's starting points and provide positive support from the outset of children's pre-school experience. Staff make good use of ongoing information on children's progress to plan activities that help them to reach the next steps in learning. Activities are matched to children's needs and interests. For example, staff enhance counting skills through songs about spacemen enhanced by well-made visual and tactile resources. Staff help children to extend their language and communication skills. They provide many opportunities for children to listen to well-told stories with repeated phrases and words for them to participate in. Staff ask well-considered questions with clear articulation. They hold children's attention well and help them to persist at their tasks.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Staff set a very good example for children to follow in their gentle and courteous manner. They consistently praise and support children well. Children are polite and friendly. They learn to take turns and share toys with each other. Children and their parents know their key person very well. This helps children to settle in and to develop their self-confidence and independence. Children have a good sense of responsibility and tidy up after themselves with enthusiasm. Staff promote children's knowledge and understanding of healthy lifestyles and good hygiene procedures. They teach children to wash their hands carefully and explain why it is important to do so. Staff provide nutritious snacks and work with parents to make sure children have healthy meals in their lunch boxes.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children achieve well during their time in the pre-school and are well prepared for starting school. They are curious and eager to explore and investigate. For example, they work together to find ways to build the highest towers in their construction activities. Children's early reading and writing skills are developed well. They extend their mark-making skills in their sand play and in creating chalk and paint patterns on the outside fences. Children make good progress in developing physical skills. They learn to hold scissors and cut straight and zig-zag lines with increasing accuracy, for example, or try walking along narrow planks balanced on crates on obstacle courses they create.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 314740 Local authority East Riding of Yorkshire Inspection number 10062786 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 24 Number of children on roll 53 Name of registered person The Croft Pre-School Committee

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Date of previous inspection 17 May 2016 Telephone number 01430 874192

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Croft Pre School registered in 1992. The setting employs seven members of childcare staff. Of these, all hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 2 and above, including four at level 3 and one at level 5. The setting opens from Monday to Friday, term time only. Sessions are from 8.30am to 4pm. The setting 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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