St George's Community Children's Project Ltd

Inspection of St George's Community Children's Project Ltd 7 Chilston Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN4 9LP

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Overall effectiveness Outstanding

The quality of education Outstanding Behaviour and attitudes Outstanding Personal development Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Overall effectiveness at previous inspection Outstanding

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The provision is outstanding

Children are incredibly independent, confident and happy. Staff do their utmost to ensure that the setting is safe and secure. Children are consistently enthused by the highly motivating learning opportunities. They engage in activities that require excellent levels of maturity, for example, they enjoy pond dipping and making campfires. Children's behaviour is impeccable and they are incredibly polite. Children develop excellent levels of empathy and kindness. For example, they routinely visit the elderly to share stories with them. Children are keen to help each other and listen to each other's ideas with great respect. Children gain an excellent understanding of healthy eating. For example, they harvest their own produce in their allotment, such as leeks, apples and onions. All children have outstanding opportunities to challenge their physical skills. They negotiate more complicated equipment with excellent confidence, such as climbing walls, cargo nets and tree

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The provision is outstanding

swings. Staff build on children's interests incredibly well. For example, children who are enthusiastic about dinosaurs go on to learn their different names, such as velociraptor. Children then explore and learn about different fossils, such as ammonites. Children learn about different artists. For example, they explore still-life painting as they reproduce their own version of Van Gogh's vase of sunflowers.

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n Staff establish outstandingly secure and trusting relationships with children. They get to know children's individual personalities, routines and interests incredibly well. Staff have exceptionally good levels of positive well-being and self-motivation. n The managers and staff establish an extraordinarily positive partnership with parents and keep them extremely well informed and involved in their children's learning. They routinely share children's learning experiences and training ideas with them. For instance, they are invited to learn about how to manage children's behaviour and how to support children with visual impairment. n All staff build and maintain excellent partnerships with staff at other settings children also attend. For instance, they observe children together, share activity ideas and agree next steps in their learning. Staff provide children with an incredibly positive approach to their shared care and learning experiences.

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n Staff have an extraordinarily comprehensive knowledge of the curriculum and all seven areas of learning. They provide children with extremely enthralling and motivating learning opportunities. For example, children make their own resources, such as card games. Staff skilfully provide children with the skills they need to succeed. All children, including those who speak English as an additional language and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, make outstanding progress and exceed learning expectations. n All children are extremely confident to communicate and share their ideas. They

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22 November 2019 have an extensive range of vocabulary and express themselves with great confidence. Staff encourage children to learn and use new words, for instance, ones such as 'prehistoric'. n Children have outstanding opportunities to respect and understand other people's similarities and differences outside of their own communities and religious beliefs. Children learn words in an extensive range of other languages, such as Bulgarian and Portuguese. Children learn about the celebrations of other countries. For example, children make wishes and write these down. They then place them on a tree they have created for the Hong Kong New Year wishing tree tradition. n Staff are extremely well qualified, passionate and enthusiastic. They attend incredibly beneficial training to support them to build on their already impressive skills and knowledge. For instance, they have learned about the benefits of children being able to explore and investigate materials as part of their play.

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need to do better?

n The managers and staff evaluate their practice together exceptionally well. For example, they observe each other teaching children daily. They share incredibly helpful feedback to enhance their performance. The managers closely monitor the consistency of care and teaching staff provide. For instance, they hold daily evaluation meetings with all staff to discuss how well they met the learning intentions. The managers give an extremely high priority to staff well-being and support them massively. For example, if required, staff are offered free counselling, and they are recognised and valued for their achievements.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

All staff have an outstanding knowledge and understanding of the safeguarding and child protection policies. Staff are extremely confident of what to do and who to contact in different circumstances, such as if they felt that they needed to report a concern about a colleague. Staff encourage children to take an active role in risk assessing their activities and environments. This helps teach children to have a great sense of responsibility and to help keep themselves and others safe. Children clearly understand the importance of safety during their play. For example, they make up their own rules regarding fantasy play and consider how to use their 'pirate swords' safely.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 127584 Local authority Kent Inspection number 10128560 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 0 to 8 Total number of places 90 Number of children on roll 312

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Name of registered person

St Georges Community Childrens Project Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 01892 543982 Date of previous inspection 13 April 2016

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Information about this early years setting

St George's Community Children's Project Ltd registered in 1991. It is located in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. The setting is open Monday to Friday from 7.30am until 6.30pm, all year around. The setting receives funding to provide free early education for children aged three and four years. The setting employs 53 members of staff, 32 of whom hold relevant early years qualification at level 2 or above. This includes one member of staff who holds a level 4, one member of staff who has a level 5, one member of staff who holds a degree at level 6 and one member of staff who has early years professional status.

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Inspection activities

n The inspector observed the staff interacting with children and carried out a learning walk with the manager and nominated person. The inspector assessed the impact interaction and opportunities have on children's learning. n The inspector viewed the indoor and outdoor learning environments. n The inspector looked at written documentation, including safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures. n The inspector spoke to the manager, children, parents and staff, and considered their views. n The inspector carried out a joint observation with the manager of a cooking activity.

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We carried out this inspection 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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22 November 2019 regulates and inspects to achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages. It regulates and inspects childcare and children's social care, and inspects the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass), schools, colleges, initial teacher training, further education and skills, adult and community learning, and education and training in prisons and other secure establishments. It assesses council children's services, and inspects services for looked after children, safeguarding and child protection.

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