St Paschal Baylon Nursery and After School Care

Inspection of St Paschal Baylon Nursery and After School Care Chelwood Avenue, Childwall, LIVERPOOL L16 2LN

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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 Good

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The provision is good

Staff are dedicated and passionate about providing positive outcomes for all children. They create a calm, friendly and nurturing environment. Children are happy and settled. They arrive at nursery excited to explore the range of stimulating activities available. Staff build positive and trusting bonds with children. This helps children feel safe and secure. They have high expectations of all children, including for their behaviour. For example, they help children learn how to share the toys and resources. Staff praise children when they are kind and helpful, which also helps to build children's self-esteem.

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The provision is good

Staff provide a broad curriculum which gives children the knowledge that they need to succeed. For example, staff invite visitors into the setting, such as paramedics, firefighters and community police officers. This helps children learn about people who help them within their community. Children have opportunities to watch chicks hatch out of their eggs in the incubator at nursery. They observe the changes to caterpillars as they change into butterflies. This helps children learn about the life cycle of animals.

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The provision is good

Staff promote literacy well and children gain a love of books from a young age. Staff read stories with plenty of enthusiasm and children become immersed within the text. Parents attend the setting for story-time sessions. They are invited into nursery to be mystery readers for children. This helps to foster a love of books both at home and at nursery.

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need to do better?

n Staff know the children have a thorough understanding of where children are up to in their development. They use this to plan appropriate next steps in children's learning. However, not all staff share the same knowledge about how to implement the planned curriculum. For example, not all staff have a firm understanding of the key vocabulary that they want children to learn. Despite this, children make good progress from their starting points. n Overall, staff are supported well. Leaders ensure that staff keep their mandatory training, such as, in paediatric first aid and safeguarding, up to date. They prioritise staff's well-being and staff comment on how they feel a valued part of the nursery team. However, monitoring of staff's practice does not always identify where there are gaps in the delivery of the curriculum. Leaders do not evaluate staff's practice carefully enough to inform a programme of professional

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need to do better?

development that helps staff understand the curriculum and develop expertise in their teaching. n Staff have high expectations of all children's behaviour. They use visual prompts with children. For example, staff make regular reference to visual timetables and

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need to do better?

23 April 2024 they lower the lighting in the room to communicate that it is tidy-up time. This helps children further understand the nursery routines. n The curriculum positively supports children's emotional development. Staff use text from stories, such as 'The Colour Monster', to help children learn about their own feelings. Children discuss how they think characters in books may be feeling and why. Staff support children to discover activities that help them to feel calm when they may be feeling sad. Children learn to regulate their own emotions. n Staff promote children's growing independence well. For example, children confidently chop their own fruit at snack time and pour their own drinks. Children use cutlery confidently as they eat their hot dinner in the school hall. This helps children feel proud of the tasks they can complete by themselves and prepares them well for their transition to school.

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need to do better?

n Parent partnerships are a key strength of the nursery. Staff make good use of an online app to help keep parents continuously updated about children's development. They invite parents into the nursery. For example, parents attend nature walks and Mother's Day story-time events. Staff also send story sacks home for parents to share with children. These close partnerships help to provide continuity in children's learning. n Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are supported well. The special educational needs coordinator is knowledgeable about the individual needs of children attending the nursery. She makes timely referrals to a range of agencies and works closely with staff, parents and other professionals. This helps to ensure that the curriculum meets every child's needs. n Staff have carefully considered the physical skills they want children to learn. Children show awareness of each other's space as they ride around the outdoor

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area on scooters. They scoop soil onto baking trays as they make dinner for staff in the mud kitchen, which helps to develop children's large-muscle movements. Children's physical development is promoted well.

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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 strengthen systems for monitoring and coaching staff, to help accurately identify inconsistencies in the implementation of the curriculum n embed a carefully planned, well informed and regularly reviewed programme of professional development, that helps to further develop staff's knowledge of the curriculum and their teaching skills.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY314925 Local authority Liverpool Inspection number 10335187 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

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inspection

Total number of places 24 Number of children on roll 49 Name of registered person Prayle, Jacqueline Ann

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reference number

Telephone number 0151 722 7744 Date of previous inspection 7 June 2018

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Information about this early years setting

St. Paschal Baylon Nursery and After School Care registered in 2005. It is situated in Childwall, Liverpool. The nursery employs five child care staff, including the manager. Four members of staff hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday during term time only. Sessions are from 8am to 5pm. The nursery 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 provider received since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The inspector discussed the impact of the pandemic with the provider and has taken that into account in their evaluation of the provider. n The manager joined the inspector on a learning walk and spoke to the inspector about their curriculum and what they want their children to learn. n The inspector observed the quality of education being provided and assessed the impact that this was having on children's learning. n The inspector talked to staff at appropriate times during the inspection and took account of their views. n The inspector spoke with the manager about the leadership and management of the setting. n Children spoke to the inspector during the inspection. n The inspector looked at relevant documentation and reviewed evidence of the suitability of staff working in the setting. n Parents' shared their views of the setting with the inspector.

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Inspection activities

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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