Little Acres Childcare Centre

Little Acres Childcare Centre Nine Acres CP School, South View, Newport, Isle of Wight PO30 1QP

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Inspection date 22 July 2019 Previous inspection date 19 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 Leaders are inspirational. They are highly reflective and place children at the centre of the decisions they make about the nursery. Leaders place great importance on training and comprehensive supervision for all staff. This means that children benefit from outstanding early years provision. n Parents' views are sought and acted on to make improvements. They are exceptionally complimentary about the superb support their children receive. Parents are kept well informed about their child's learning. They appreciate the ideas and advice that staff provide on how to support their child at home. They value the unique transition arrangements that are developed for each child's move to school. For example, staff create photo books about the schools that children will attend. n Staff demonstrate excellent levels of care and warmth towards children. This enables children to build strong attachments with staff, and feel safe and ready to learn. Staff

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This provision is outstanding

use meaningful praise in their discussions with children. This boosts children's self- esteem, as they understand what they have done well. n Children are highly motivated, successful learners who are keen to engage with their friends and staff. They are confident to give new experiences a try and demonstrate high levels of concentration. For example, when older children are unable to describe to their friends what they want their boat to look like, they find paper and pencils and draw a plan of a boat they want to build.

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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 increase the confidence of less experience staff to make the maximum out of adult-led activities to promote and extend children's learning.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

n The inspector observed the quality of teaching and support for children's learning both indoors and outdoors. n The inspector assessed how well leaders and staff understand and implement nursery policies, and how they check children's learning. n The inspector carried out joint observations to assess how well leaders monitor the quality of teaching. n The inspector looked at a sample of documents, including children's records, safeguarding records and staff training certificates. n The inspector talked to parents, staff and children during the inspection and took their views into account.

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is outstanding

Leaders and staff evaluate their practice exceptionally well. Leaders recognise the support that less experienced practitioners need to ensure high-quality teaching. For example, they use peer mentoring to reflect on what they do well and continually identify areas for further development. This contributes to ensuring teaching is consistently of a very high standard. Safeguarding is effective. Leaders and staff have an excellent knowledge about the key role they play in keeping children safe. They maintain meticulous records of any concerns they may have about a child's well-being and work effectively with outside agencies when required. Leaders follow comprehensive recruitment, vetting, supervision meetings and ongoing suitably checks to help ensure all staff are, and remain, suitable to work with children. They use the additional funding they receive for children effectively. This has been used to strengthen staff excellent

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is outstanding

teaching skills in communication. As a result, children have made rapid improvements in their speech and language development.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff have a profound understand of how children learn and play. For example, staff and children jump into imaginary boats to escape from a 'shark'. Staff follow children's emerging interests and facilitate opportunities for them to discover more about the type of 'shark' that may have been chasing them. They expertly guide children's learning with skilful questioning to support thinking, make connections and solve problems. For example, children think carefully about why the dough they have made is too sticky and explore how they can resolve it. Staff are highly skilled in creating opportunities to develop children's understanding of mathematical concepts throughout their play. For instance, older children make imaginary sandwiches with herbs and cut these into 'halves' and 'quarters'.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children show high levels of confidence as they sing and put on 'shows' for their friends. They relish opportunities to engage adults in their play. For example, children and staff laugh together as they sit in imaginary cars and talk about what they will see during their journey. Staff are excellent role models. They are engaging and passionate about their role in helping children flourish. As a result, children are polite, and their behaviour is impeccable. Children demonstrate impressive physical skills as they work collaboratively to build complex 'boats' from crates, wheels and tubes. Children understand how to assess risks and keep themselves safe as they expertly use knives to prepare fruit kebabs for their nutritious snack.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children are extremely capable learners and have vast skills they need for their next stage in learning, such as starting school. Younger children show high levels of concentration and resilience as they use scissors to snip cooked pasta. Older children show a love of books; they confidently recall and read familiar stories to their friends. Children delight in exploring different media to enhance their early writing skills. For example, they expertly use paintbrushes to write their names in foam.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY480777 Local authority Isle of Wight Inspection number 10076231 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 46 Number of children on roll 60 Name of registered person Furze Hill Childcare Centre Limited

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reference number

Date of previous inspection 19 May 2016 Telephone number 019830532358

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Little Acres Childcare Centre registered in 2014. The setting operates from a building in the grounds of Nine Acres Primary School in Newport on the Isle of Wight. It is open each weekday from 8am to 5.45pm, all year round. The setting offers out-of-school care for older children from 8am to 8.45am and from 3pm to 6pm, and all day during school holidays. It receives funding to provide free early education for children aged two, three and four years. The nursery employs 10 members of staff, seven of whom hold qualifications at level 3 or above.

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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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