Tree Tots Pre-school

Inspection of Tree Tots Pre-school Jotmans Hall Primary School, High Road, Benfleet SS7 5RG

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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

Staff greet parents and children as they arrive. They settle children and help them to start exploring the environment with their friends. Staff gather information from parents and through their observations of the children as they play. They use this information to inform their curriculum, ensuring that it builds effectively on what children know and can do. For example, staff encourage children to rummage through coloured rice and look for 'treasure'. Children use different-sized tweezers to pick up any treasure they find. This helps them to develop their small-muscle skills. Children use their imagination as they act out real-life experiences. For example, they put bandages on their friends as they play doctors and nurses.

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The provision is good

Staff encourage children to cut up their own fruit, butter their own bread and wash up their plates at snack time. This supports them to build their self-care skills effectively. Staff support children to learn about the benefits of managing their personal hygiene. For example, they encourage them to wash their hands and wipe their own noses independently. Children have many opportunities to develop their physical skills and get plenty of fresh air. Staff use positive strategies to help to manage children's feelings and frustrations. This helps to support their emotional well-being. As a result, children's behaviour is good.

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need to do better?

n Staff provide children with a broad and balanced curriculum. They have a good understanding of what children in their care need to do next to move on in their development. Staff apply this knowledge when planning activities to promote children's development. However, at times, they do not challenge and extend children's learning further through consistently good interactions so that children make even higher rates of progress. n Children spend as much time as possible outside, in all weathers. They use bicycles and run around with confidence. Staff provide children with different experiences. For example, they learn to balance and stretch their bodies during yoga sessions and discover nature through scavenger hunts. Children work together and use their imagination as they construct in the builders role-play area. They enjoy drawing plans of buildings so that they can build them with the large bricks. Children are absorbed and engaged in their play and learning.

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n Staff work together to establish and teach consistent routines. This helps to promote children's confidence and independence. Children learn how to behave well and to become a member of a team. For example, children of all ages participate in tidying up ready for lunchtime when they hear the music to a well- known film. n Staff weave mathematical concepts well through children's play. For example, they encourage children to count the sides of shapes and discuss size as they

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26 March 2024 construct with bricks. Children enjoy making dough and talk about different quantities of ingredients they need. n Children are developing their communication and language skills. Staff ensure that children have lots of opportunities to listen to and read stories. They ask questions and talk about the characters and pictures. Children enjoy singing songs every day. n Managers ensure that children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are supported to make good progress. Staff are quick to identify children who are not at their expected levels of development. They make swift referrals and work in partnership with other professionals to target plans for those children who need them. n Managers actively seek and embrace the views of parents, staff and children to continually enhance the quality of the provision. Staff provide good support and guidance to parents, such as parenting advice and ideas on how they can help

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need to do better?

to promote their child's learning at home. Parents express high levels of appreciation and gratitude. n The manager and staff team are dedicated and work closely as a team. Staff are encouraged to attend training, and they benefit from regular meetings and supervision. Managers consider the workload and well-being of staff and support them very well. Managers are fully committed to continually building on the good-quality care and education they offer children and families.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

There is an open and positive culture around safeguarding that puts children's interests first.

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should:

n support staff to further develop their already good interactions to extend and challenge children in their learning.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 2655735 Local authority Essex Inspection number 10332979 Type of provision Childcare on non-domestic premises Registers Early Years Register Day care type Sessional day care

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inspection

Total number of places 26 Number of children on roll 46 Name of registered person Tree Tots Pre school Ltd

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reference number

Telephone number 01268752730 Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Information about this early years setting

Tree Tots Pre-school registered in 2021. It employs nine members of childcare staff, all of whom hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 2 or above. The pre- school is open from Monday to Friday, term time only. Sessions are from 8.55am to 3.30pm on Monday and Friday and from 8.55am to 11.50pm on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. 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 the pre-school received since COVID-19 pandemic began. The inspector discussed the impact of the pandemic with the manager and provider and has taken this into account in their evaluation of the pre-school. n The manager, deputy manager and inspector had a learning walk of the pre- school, inside and outside. n The manager and the inspector carried out a joint observation and evaluated this together. n Children spoke to the inspector about what they were doing in the pre-school. n Staff spoke with the inspector at appropriate times during the inspection. n The inspector reviewed relevant documentation, including evidence of suitability checks for all adults working in the pre-school. n The inspector took account of the written views of parents at the time of 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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