Upottery Preschool CIO

Inspection of Upottery Preschool CIO Upottery, Honiton, Devon EX14 9QT

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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 Good

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The provision is outstanding

Children flourish in this extremely welcoming and warm pre-school. They make wonderful bonds with all staff. This helps children to feel happy, safe and secure. The manager and her team have high expectations of what they want children to learn. Staff are highly knowledgeable and demonstrate high-quality teaching that ensures children make the best possible progress. Children benefit from the carefully planned activities and stimulating learning opportunities they experience, including regular forest school visits. Children show a deep curiosity for how the world works. Staff expertly harness this curiosity and skilfully inspire children to think for themselves and to ask questions. This further extends children's knowledge. For example, children intently watch heavy rain pour into a watering can. They say to staff, 'Look, the rain sometimes misses the watering can. Why does the wind blow the rain?'

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The provision is outstanding

Children are extremely motivated to take part in the challenging, fun and engaging activities that staff thoughtfully plan for them. Children show remarkably high levels of pleasure and concentration throughout the day. They confidently express themselves and interact with staff and each other. Children enjoy playing board games and share and take turns exceptionally well. They tell staff, 'I'm going to play with that when he has finished playing with it.'

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The provision is outstanding

Children's behaviour is exemplary. They understand and follow all boundaries and enthusiastically join in with the daily routines. Children show respect and affection for staff. They listen and follow instructions superbly.

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n Staff value and celebrate children's achievements and uniqueness. They consistently praise children's efforts. This contributes to children having a strong sense of pride and high self-esteem. Children beam when they achieve success. For example, they confidently tell staff, 'This is easy peasy.' n The manager places a high priority on developing children's communication and language, social and emotional development, and physical skills. As a result, children speak with remarkable confidence and fluency. They engage in delightful conversations with staff and their friends, and competently use a range of tools and equipment in their play. n Parents truly value the care and learning experiences that their children receive. Staff and parents communicate regularly. Staff are keen to find out about children's interests and successes at home. They build on this to successfully extend children's knowledge and skills. Parents comment on how excited

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children are to come each day, and the 'calm and caring' environment that staff have created.

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30 April 2024 n Staff skilfully use games to teach children how to take turns and to extend their vocabulary. Young children confidently name desert and jungle animals and intently concentrate for long periods of time. Staff use these opportunities to check children's understanding and support them how to learn and pronounce new words. This equips children superbly for their next stage of learning. n Support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities is exceptional. Staff use their extensive knowledge and skills to continually assess and support children's learning. They work with parents and professionals to put appropriate strategies and resources in place. As a result, all children make excellent progress and are extremely well equipped to make the transition to primary school. n Staff know all the children extremely well. They use their exceptional knowledge of each child to plan and provide activities to spark children's interests and to

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engage their imagination and curiosity. Children demonstrate exceptional listening skills and high levels of focus and concentration. This helps them to make excellent progress in their learning across all areas of the curriculum. n The manager is extremely passionate about the range of opportunities she wants children to experience. She supports staff to attend training to further enhance their already excellent practice. Staff consistently use their knowledge of child development to deliver high-quality education and care. The staff are superb role models for children. They have created an extremely positive environment that enables children to be emotionally secure, develop healthy relationships and reach their true potential. n The manager and her staff have strong relationships with the school and other providers in the local area. They regularly discuss children's progress and work collaboratively on children's next steps. This provides excellent continuity of

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learning for children and supports their transition to school.

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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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Setting details

Unique reference number EY484951 Local authority Devon Inspection number 10335765 Type of provision Childcare on non-domestic premises Registers Early Years Register Day care type Sessional day care

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Total number of places 20 Number of children on roll 26 Name of registered person Upottery Pre-School CIO

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reference number

Telephone number 01404861705 Date of previous inspection 27 June 2018

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Information about this early years setting

Upottery Preschool CIO has been running since 1979; however, the CIO has only been in existence since 2014. It is run by a voluntary committee and is located in the village of Upottery near Honiton. The pre-school operates from a self-contained building on the site of Upottery Primary School. The pre-school receives funding for the provision of free early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children. It opens Monday to Friday, during school term time only. Sessions are from 9am to 3.30pm. The manager holds early years teacher status, and two staff are qualified to level 3. There is disability access.

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Inspection activities

n This was the first routine inspection the pre-school 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 inspector viewed the provision and discussed the safety and suitability of the premises. n The manager joined the inspector on a learning walk and talked to the inspector about their curriculum and what they want their children to learn. n The inspector held discussions with the manager and staff throughout the inspection and discussed how the curriculum is planned and implemented and how children's progress is monitored. n The inspector spoke to parents and gathered their views. n Children spoke to the inspector. n The inspector observed interactions between staff and children. n The manager and inspector held a joint observation of a language activity.

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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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