St Pauls Church Nursery School

Inspection of St Pauls Church Nursery School St Pauls Church, St Pauls Road West, DORKING, Surrey RH4 2HT

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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

The extremely well-qualified, experienced and long-standing team successfully fulfils the highest of expectations for all children. Staff create a superb curriculum centred around the children. This enables them to offer children highly tailored support and innovative experiences, which aids children in successfully developing the skills and knowledge that underpin their ability to learn and succeed in life.

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The provision is outstanding

Children become wholeheartedly absorbed in their learning and continuously demonstrate the abundance of knowledge and learning they have developed. For example, older children build dens in the garden. Together they measure different- sized canes. They actively solve problems, deciding how to fix the string to make their den stand up.

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The provision is outstanding

Children behave exceptionally well. The care they show for their surroundings, resources and each other is excellent. For example, children kindly share resources with each other without prompting. This demonstrates their high levels of mutual respect and their natural consideration of welcoming other children into their play. Children develop an extremely strong sense of belonging and show secure emotional attachments with staff. As a result, children feel very safe.

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The provision is outstanding

Children make excellent progress, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities. Children benefit from small-group interventions and one-to-one activities tailored to their individual needs.

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n Children learn and develop across a broad range of areas through many extensively planned activities. Children enjoy making bird feeders. They are highly engaged and persevere as they use different-sized sticks to scoop ingredients out of jars for their bird feed mix. All children demonstrate a can-do attitude to learning. n Children have a exceptional range of opportunities to be physically active, as part of leading a healthy lifestyle. Children spend a lot of time outdoors in all weathers. This helps to build their resilience and enhance their health. Staff encourage children to take risks in their play and to persevere when challenged. For instance, they build children's confidence hugely and encourage them as they practise climbing trees and negotiate around obstacles. Children learn to prepare their own healthy and nutritious foods at snack time. They demonstrate excellent independence skills as they place their waste in the recycling after

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snack and dress themselves after forest school. n Staff demonstrate a strong focus on mathematical development. Children delight in exploring mathematical concepts in all aspects of their play. For example, in a

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10 February 2020 cooking activity, children count confidently, understand simple calculation and demonstrate their excellent understanding of numbers and shapes. n Staff provide children with excellent opportunities to write for a purpose. Older children keenly write 'notes' to their special people and write their name. Younger children make marks in sand and they begin to notice the marks they make carry meaning. For example, they draw pictures. As a result, children's literacy skills develop exceptionally well. n Staff have tremendous partnerships with parents. Parents state that they receive 'excellent' communication. They are highly involved in children's learning and develop strong bonds with their child's key person and the whole staff team. Staff ensure that all parents are fully involved in their children's learning. They support parents in many ways to continue the learning outside of the nursery

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environment. For example, a workshop in supporting early literacy enabled parents to gain a deeper understanding in this area. n The manager is inspirational and ambitious. Staff's well-being and professional development are managed impressively. Staff report that they are very happy. Managers use regular supervision to champion staff to extend and upskill their practice through training. For example, one member of staff is now a qualified forest school leader. Many staff have undertaken graduate study, and they demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of early years education. All staff reflect continuously on their work and swiftly put in place improvements and changes which have a positive impact on children's learning. Consequently, the quality of education is outstanding throughout the provision.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

Children's welfare is at the forefront of everything that staff do. They are fully aware of the potential signs of abuse and neglect, along with wider issues, such as children who may be exposed to extreme views and behaviour. There are robust systems in place for reporting concerns to the relevant authorities. Staff confidently know the process to raise concerns regarding colleagues should they need to. Managers ensure that staff are suitable for their roles before they start. They provide staff with exceptional training and support to ensure that their safeguarding knowledge is kept up to date.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY263569 Local authority Surrey Inspection number 10128712 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 to 4 Total number of places 26 Number of children on roll 32

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Name of registered person

St Pauls Church Nursery Management Committee

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reference number

Telephone number 07913 467703 Date of previous inspection 21 March 2016

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Information about this early years setting

St Pauls Church Nursery School registered in 2003 and is based in Dorking, Surrey. The nursery is open Monday to Friday, from 9.15am to 12.15pm, during term time only. It offers two extended days, until 3pm, for children who are in their final year before starting primary school. The provider receives funding to provide free early years education for children aged two, three and four years. There are six members of staff employed. Of these, one holds early years practitioner status, one holds early years teacher status, two hold qualified teacher status, and one holds an appropriate early years qualification at level 3.

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Inspection activities

n The manager gave the inspector a comprehensive tour of the premises indoors and outdoors. n The manager and the inspector jointly observed a planned activity and discussed how the manager monitors staff performance. n The inspector observed the staff interacting with children and considered the impact of these interactions on children's learning and development. n The inspector spoke to some of the parents whose children attend the setting. She took their views and opinions into consideration.

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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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