Pebbles Pre School

Inspection of Pebbles Pre School 2 Stoke Road, Gosport, Hampshire PO12 1JB

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Overall effectiveness Good

The quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Good Overall effectiveness at previous inspection Not applicable

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The provision is good

Children develop warm and trusting relationships with staff and with their friends. The happy and relaxed atmosphere in the pre-school contributes to the calm and safe environment children benefit from. Opportunities for children to learn about positive behaviour enable children to learn how to play cooperatively and how to value and respect the differing needs of their peers. For instance, children take turns outdoors, they confidently play on climbing equipment and share favourite toys together.

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The provision is good

All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), benefit from a well-planned curriculum. Children are keen to learn and to enjoy the wide range of activities that staff provide. Staff know children well and create tailored learning opportunities which ignite children's curiosity. For instance, younger children enjoy learning about shapes as staff skilfully weave in opportunities to extend children's language skills. Children learn how to pronounce new words and what these new words mean, to continue to build on their developing communication skills. Children in receipt of additional funding benefit from the good one-to-one teaching that helps them to catch up in areas where they need additional support, particularly in developing their personal, social and emotional development.

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n Staff support children's physical development well. Children are encouraged to try new activities and to take risks in play, to help them become confident in their growing abilities. For instance, older children practise taking wider steps as they confidently make their way along 'stepping stones' outdoors. Staff recognise the value of praising children, as children develop a can-do attitude to keep on trying when some activities present challenge to them, to successfully help them achieve new skills. n Children are keen to learn and to enjoy a range of activities which captures their individual interests. Staff know what children can do and which areas teaching needs to be more focused on, to help children make good progress in their knowledge and skills. For instance, staff help children to count and to recognise some written numbers. They help children to practise this activity to develop their mathematical knowledge. Children gain good levels of engagement in

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activities. However, the manager and the staff identify some children do not concentrate as fully as possible in some activities, and opportunities to deepen children's learning are, therefore, not fully maximised. n Staff place a strong focus on developing children's personal, social and emotional development. They help children to understand about their own feelings and emotions and those of others within the pre-school. For instance,

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10 September 2021 children take part in a group activity, and staff use pictures to help children talk about how people feel, why they feel this way and discuss different ways that they can be helped to feel 'happy'. Staff skilfully reflect on this activity throughout the day, as children recall what they have learned and think about how they can play, take turns and share with their friends. Children's behaviour is good. n Partnerships with parents and other professionals involved in children's care are good. Parents speak very highly of the manager and the staff at the pre-school. They value the regular information that staff share about children and feel that staff are approachable, attentive and enthusiastic in caring for their children. Parents comment on how during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, staff kept in touch with them and helped children to settle back happily into the setting. However, staff are yet to fully explore how to involve parents more

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need to do better?

meaningfully in their children's progress, to enable them to actively contribute and support their children's learning and development. n The manager leads her staff team well. Staff say that they feel valued and well supported by the manager, who implements effective supervision, coaching and support to enable staff to provide good-quality teaching and learning opportunities for children. Staff are self-reflective and benefit from training to continue to develop their own teaching skills. For instance, staff are reviewing how they can broaden their knowledge of what children need to learn next, to support staff in capturing opportunities to teach children in their everyday play.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

Staff have a good knowledge of safeguarding. They know how to identify when children may be at risk of harm and what action to take to keep children safe. The manager implements effective training for staff, to help them understand about safeguarding, including wider issues. They know how to identify the dangers posed to children from extreme views and behaviours and how to report their concerns. Staff know how to respond to allegations about another member of staff. When recruiting new staff, the manager follows a thorough process to ensure staff are suitable for their roles. Staff work effectively with other agencies involved in children's care, to support their physical well-being.

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should:

n maximise opportunities to support children's concentration and thinking even further n strengthen partnership working with parents, to encourage them to actively contribute and support their children's learning and development more

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY563072 Local authority Hampshire Inspection number 10191058 Type of provision Childcare on non-domestic premises Registers Early Years Register Day care type Full day care

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inspection

Total number of places 57 Number of children on roll 36 Name of registered person Hogan, Joanna

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reference number

Telephone number 02392 502522 Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Information about this early years setting

Pebbles Pre School registered in 2018 and is located in Gosport, Hampshire. The pre-school employs 12 members of childcare staff, of these 11 hold relevant early years qualifications at level 3 or above. The pre-school opens from 9am until 3pm, term-time only. The pre-school provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.

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Inspection activities

n This was the first routine inspection report the provider received since the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic began. The inspector discussed the impact of the pandemic with the provider and has taken that into account in her evaluation of the provider. n The manager joined the inspector on a learning walk and talked to the inspector about the pre-school's curriculum and what they want children to learn. n The inspector talked to staff and children at appropriate times during the inspection and took account of their views. n The special educational needs coordinator spoke to the inspector about how they support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. n The inspector observed the quality of education being provided indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact this was having on children's learning.

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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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