Edmonton Baptist Church Pre School

Inspection of Edmonton Baptist Church Pre School Edmonton Baptist Church, Monmouth Road, London N9 0LS

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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 kind, caring and responsive to children's individual needs. They offer warm welcomes to children as they arrive. This helps children to feel happy and demonstrates that they feel safe. Staff have high expectations of children's behaviour. They encourage children to share and play cooperatively with their peers. For example, children delight in building walls with their friends, using large foam bricks and metal bolts to connect large pipes. Staff use a tape measure with children to measure their height. They teach children to practise reading out numbers on the tape measure. This helps to develop children's mathematical skills effectively.

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The provision is good

Funding is used appropriately. For example, the manager uses funding to provide one-to-one support for children. This supports children who are vulnerable and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities to make good progress.

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The provision is good

Children enjoy physical activities and fresh air when playing outside. Staff provide opportunities that present challenge and encourage children to take risks in their play. They support children to learn how to keep safe and develop an awareness of their surroundings. For instance, children make up games in the garden. They ride around on wheeled toys as they pretend to cross roads. Children use stop signs and shout out to their friends to 'stop, look and listen' as they ride over their road mats.

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n The manager and staff team implement an ambitious curriculum. This focuses on children's interests and what they already know, to promote further learning. Staff know the children very well. This allows them to move children's learning on from the moment they start. n Staff encourage children to learn about the world around them. For example, children use real vegetables to explore in play and plant broad beans and cress in small pots. Staff use these opportunities to encourage children to compare the different colours, textures and size of the vegetables. Children know that fruit and vegetables are healthy foods, and that some grow under the soil and some grow on trees. This helps children to understand the natural world they live in. n Staff focus well on supporting children's language and communication skills. They engage children in good discussions, extending vocabulary and role modelling words. Children enjoy stories and singing nursery rhymes. Some

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children take part in targeted, small-group communication sessions. These help children to become even more confident to talk and help to close any identified gaps in their learning. n Staff teach children how to lead healthy lifestyles exceptionally well. Children are

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14 May 2024 supported to develop both their fine and gross motor skills. Staff provide a range of experiences, such as various exercises to develop children's core muscles, coordination and balance. Staff give children challenges to extend their skills, such as stretching like a 'string bean' and curling up into a ball like a 'jelly bean'. n Children show they are confident and able in mathematics and are learning to count, recognise numbers and make simple calculations. For example, children gain skills in counting and sorting as they make minibeasts with play dough. Children add wooden sticks for the legs of spiders and roll balls of dough for the dots on a ladybird. They count the number of dots on a ladybird and the number of legs on the spiders they create. The curriculum for mathematics is well considered throughout the setting. n Staff implement shared strategies to manage behaviour and effectively

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need to do better?

communicate with each other to support unwanted behaviour. Staff provide inviting environments for children to explore and promote their learning and development. However, staff do not routinely encourage children to develop a sense of responsibility and to take care of their environment and toys. For example, on occasion, children leave toys on the floor and others walk over books without putting them away after play. n Partnerships with parents are a strength of the pre-school. Parents comment that their children are receiving very good care. They welcome the effective communication they receive about their children's progress. Staff provide information to help parents to support their children's learning further at home. Parents are invited to attend workshops that help them to support children's physical development and fine motor skills in readiness for writing. n Staff work together extremely well. The manager values the staff team and uses

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supervision sessions to talk about staff's well-being. She identifies training that is specific to individual staff's needs. The manager recognises the importance of keeping staff's professional development up to date. Staff comment on the strong relationships they have and feel supported by the manager.

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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 opportunities for children to take more responsibility for their toys and the environment.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY396268 Local authority Enfield Inspection number 10339236 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 40 Number of children on roll 40

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Name of registered person

Edmonton Baptist Church Pre-School Committee

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reference number

Telephone number 02088077673 Date of previous inspection 5 July 2018

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Information about this early years setting

Edmonton Baptist Church Pre School registered in 2009. The pre-school is open from 9.15am to 3.15pm every weekday, during term time only. Eight members of staff work at the pre-school, all of whom hold relevant early years qualifications at levels 3 to 6. The provider is in receipt of funding for free early years education to children aged two, three and four years.

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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 manager and has taken that into account in their evaluation of the provider. n The manager and the inspector completed a learning walk of the setting, inside and outside. n The manager and the inspector carried out a joint observation and, together, they evaluated this. n Children spoke to the inspector about what they were doing in the setting. n The staff spoke with the inspector at appropriate times during the inspection. n The inspector reviewed relevant documentation, including the suitability checks of all adults working in the setting. n The inspector spoke to several parents and took account of their views 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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