Mouse House Nursery School SW18: The Kindergartens

Inspection of Mouse House Nursery SW18 13-15 Barmouth Road, London SW18 2DT

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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 extremely confident and highly motivated learners. Staff spend a lot of time finding out about children's personalities and preferences, and know them exceptionally well. For instance, children access extremely well-resourced activities based on children's interests to ensure they settle into the nursery successfully. Staff have strong and nurturing relationships with children, and value them highly as individuals. All children, including the youngest, develop strong independence skills. For example, they prepare their own fruit snacks, put on their coats and tidy up meticulously, at appropriate times. Staff work diligently and successfully to ensure that all children develop very robust, healthy lifestyles. For instance, they provide special days themed around healthy eating where parents are invited into the nursery for breakfast. Staff discuss what makes a healthy breakfast, and children help to prepare it. Children behave exceptionally well. For instance,

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The provision is outstanding

children have excellent understanding of group rules shared with them, and older children often remind their younger peers of positive ways to behave. Children display great skill in resolving disagreements between themselves. Children have excellent understanding of how to behave safely. For instance, they carry out supervised risk assessments of the outdoor area to help prevent hazards.

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n Staff offer a very inspiring and stimulating range of activities. They carry out detailed, comprehensive observations of children and use this information exceptionally well to provide a high level of challenge for children. Children make excellent progress. Staff check children's progress carefully, and provide very well-tailored support to those needing extra help. n Staff enable children to gain excellent early literacy skills. For example, children take part in well-designed physical development sessions to music where children practise a range of precise movements linked to supporting early writing skills. Children have an excellent understanding of letters and the sounds they represent, and many can recognise and write their own names. n Children have exceptional understanding of their feelings and how to manage them. Staff teach them about different emotions and how to recognise what they are feeling. For example, children say things such as 'I am really excited

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about this' and 'I am confused'. Children have high regard for others from different cultural and religious backgrounds. Staff discuss and celebrate a full range of cultural and religious festivals with the children to support their understanding of other cultures. n Staff provide extremely well-considered opportunities for children to develop their creative skills. For example, children use a wide variety of flexible, natural and man-made materials to create two- and three-dimensional objects entirely from their own imaginations. They often make complex and detailed artwork and

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10 January 2020 models. n Children develop excellent physical skills. For instance, a specialist yoga teacher provides comprehensive sessions on physical coordination, balance and movement. This supports all children, but particularly those children who need extra help in this area. A sports coach visits the nursery each week when children take part in organised activities to develop a wide variety of physical skills. n Staff give very high levels of support to children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. They form very successful partnerships with parents and others involved in the children's care and learning. All information is shared and used to promote excellent learning experiences for children. Staff ensure that plans for children's learning are comprehensive and include relevant targets, which are regularly reviewed to help children to make exceptional progress. n Staff have highly effective partnerships with parents. They provide a vast range

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of ways for parents to support their children's learning, such as home-learning activity ideas, and letters and sounds games to support early literacy skills very well. Staff ensure that parents are kept up to date on their children's progress in a range of ways. n The manager provides very good levels of support to staff. For instance, staff have received training on self-care skills to support their well-being. The manager meets with staff individually and regularly to discuss work and training needs. For example, staff have attended a course on supporting children's communication, language and literacy skills. This led to more effective storytelling sessions and lots of songs and nursery rhymes to support children's learning very successfully.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

Staff have very thorough knowledge and understanding of potential signs of concern regarding a child's welfare. They have total understanding of procedures to follow to manage their concerns. The manager has put in place comprehensive systems to identify and support any children who require it. Staff attend regular and comprehensive training to update their skills and knowledge. The manager carries out robust background checks on staff to ensure suitability for their roles. Staff have thorough knowledge of the 'Prevent' duty to safeguard children. They talk to children about how to be safe online and provide comprehensive information to parents on keeping their children safe when using the internet.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY420821 Local authority Wandsworth Inspection number 10128501 Type of provision Childcare on non-domestic premises Registers Early Years Register Day care type Sessional day care Age range of children 2 to 6 Total number of places 40 Number of children on roll 39 Name of registered person The Kindergartens Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 01622 833331 Date of previous inspection 9 October 2014

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Information about this early years setting

Mouse House Nursery SW18 registered in 2010. It is located in Earlsfied, in the London Borough of Wandsworth. The nursery is open each weekday from 8.45am to 4pm, term time only. There are 12 staff, including the manager. Of these, 11 members of staff hold appropriate early years qualifications. This includes one staff member who has early years teacher status; one staff member who has early years professional status; one member of staff who has qualified teacher status; three staff members who hold a qualification in childcare at level 6; four staff members who hold a qualification in childcare at level 3; and one member of staff who holds a qualification in childcare at level 2. The nursery receives funding for free early years education for children age three and four years.

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Inspection activities

n The inspector carried out a joint observation of a group activity with the manager. n The inspector carried out a learning walk with the manager and discussed the curriculum. n Interaction between staff and children was observed, and the inspector spoke to children when appropriate. n The inspector tracked the experiences and activities of several children. n The inspector reviewed some documentation and held a discussion with the manager. n The inspector considered the views of parents and staff during the inspection.

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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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