Hensingham Community Primary School

Little Pippins Pre- School The Freeman Orchard, Gaveston Road, Harwell, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0HP

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Inspection date 11 July 2019 Previous inspection date 12 December 2014

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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 The provider has an excellent understanding of their role. They work with the management team highly effectively to drive continuous improvement. This is illustrated by their joint creation of a precise objective-driven action plan. Staff take swift and effective steps to implement the action plan, which they review regularly. These actions help to maintain the outstanding level of provision. n Managers monitor the progress of children meticulously. For instance, they analyse the development of different groups of children. All children, including those who speak English as an additional language, those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and those in receipt of additional funding, make rapid and sustained progress from their starting points. n Staff have very high expectations of what children can achieve and their teaching is highly responsive to children's needs. For instance, staff swiftly identify children that

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This provision is outstanding

need support in some aspects of their development. They plan and deliver targeted sessions to help to close these gaps in children's learning. This helps all children to be well prepared for the next stages of their education. n Staff develop outstanding partnerships with parents and get to know families well, such as through regular home visits. They provide parents with excellent guidance and support. For example, parents borrow story sacks to help them promote positive bedtime routines. Staff invite parents into pre-school and parents say that this gives them ideas for how they can support their children's play. n Staff develop children's understanding of how to keep themselves safe exceptionally well. For example, they teach children about sun safety and show them how to apply sunscreen. They teach children about road safety. This is demonstrated when staff create an outdoor cycle track and provide bicycle helmets. Children set up routes with

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This provision is outstanding

road safety signs and put helmets on before they cycle around their route.

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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 implement plans to evaluate and reflect on the quality of teaching.

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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 carried out an evaluation of teaching with the manager following a planned activity. n The inspector held meetings with the provider and management team. She discussed self-evaluation and plans for further improvement. She looked at relevant documentation, such as children's assessments, planning and evidence of the suitability of staff working in the pre-school. n The inspector spoke to the staff and children at appropriate times during the inspection. n The inspector spoke to parents and considered their views.

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is outstanding

Managers have an inspirational approach to working in partnership with professionals to help to support children and their families. For instance, the designated safeguarding lead and special educational needs coordinator works extremely closely with other professionals, to help to ensure a successful multi-agency approach to child protection and SEND support. Managers use funding exceptionally well to provide specific activities to target children's needs, such as learning to relax and manage their feelings with yoga. The manager supports her staff team effectively. For example, she implements a rigorous cycle of staff supervisions. She has inspirational plans to further develop successful strategies to evaluate and reflect on staff practice. Safeguarding is effective. Staff consistently implement a robust range of policies and procedures to promote children's safety and well-being.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Key people know their children exceptionally well. They have high expectations and plan precisely to meet all children's needs. For instance, managers recognise that children's personal development is low on entry to the pre-school. Staff share examples of good practice and plan interventions together to target this. Children thoroughly enjoy small- group activities where staff teach them how to interact with others and express their own feelings. Staff develop highly effective relationships with settings that children transfer to. For example, key people organise meetings with teachers at the local school and plan confidence-building transition activities, such as swimming, that children get to try in their new environment. This helps to promote children's confidence and consistency in their care and learning exceptionally well.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Staff provide an inspirational range of opportunities to help promote children's health and well-being. For example, children delight in opportunities to play imaginatively outdoors, making 'banana soup' in the mud kitchen and pretending to be 'pirates' re- enacting storylines on the 'pirate ship'. Staff identify dental decay as a key priority to support. They help children and families to learn about healthy eating. This is demonstrated when children plant and grow their own vegetables and talk excitedly about when to pick them, what they taste like and how they can help them to be healthy. Managers use funding exceptionally well to provide cookery sessions to teach children how to prepare and cook healthy meals. Children then take recipes home to try with their families. This is having an excellent impact on children's health.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

All children make superb progress in their learning and development. Children develop impressive social skills as they negotiate plans for their own play. They develop strong physical skills, moulding dough in their hands and making models. They show precise control as they pick up and place small sequins onto their design. Children independently manage their own health and self-care needs exceptionally well. They pour themselves water, find hats to wear and apply suncream.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 133726 Local authority Oxfordshire Inspection number 10108482 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 30 Number of children on roll 50 Name of registered person Little Pippins Pre-School

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Date of previous inspection 12 December 2014 Telephone number 01235 821741

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Little Pippins Pre-School registered in 1970. It is a committee-run pre-school. It operates from Harwell, near Didcot, Oxfordshire. The pre-school opens each weekday from 9.15am to 3pm during term time. A breakfast club operates from 8am to 9.15am for early years and school-age children. The pre-school accepts funding for the provision of free education for children aged two, three and four years. The pre-school employs 11 members of staff. Of these, eight members of staff work with children and all hold qualifications between level 3 and 4.

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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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