Cherubs Preschool Friends Meeting House

Inspection of Cherubs Preschool Friends Meeting House 7 Balgores Crescent, Romford RM2 6AB

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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 Outstanding

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The provision is outstanding

Children display extremely high levels of emotional well-being and clearly flourish and feel safe at this wonderfully nurturing environment. Staff are very positive role models and plan an extremely exciting and vibrant range of activities that captures their interests extremely well. Children are very curious and demonstrate excellent attitudes towards learning.

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The provision is outstanding

Staff have very high expectations for children's learning and behaviour. They plan a wide range of creative and fun experiences to promote positive and kind behaviour. For instance, they read children the 'Kindness Fairies' story and leave messages written on love hearts around the classroom, prompting children to show kindness to a friend or play with someone new. Children show high levels of respect for their environment and each other and behave exceptionally well.

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The provision is outstanding

Children benefit from an exciting outdoor learning environment. They show superb enjoyment and engagement as they make different potions and concoctions with pinecones, gems and flowers. They exude happiness as they experiment with making ice creams and doughnuts from sand. They also fully immerse themselves in imaginative play as they pretend to toast marshmallows on a campfire and go camping. Staff skilfully support their play and ask lots of effective questions about their ideas and intentions. Children benefit from a rich language environment and hear an abundance of new descriptive words as they play.

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n The pre-school is led by a highly inspiring and dedicated manager. She is extremely knowledgeable and has very high aspirations for all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities. The manager and the very committed team work exceptionally well with a range other professionals to deliver well-tailored support to enhance outcomes for the children that attend. It is evident that children make excellent progress and are thriving. n The extremely hard-working team successfully plan an extensive and stimulating curriculum to support children's learning and development. Staff know children very well and skilfully plan activities to help to close any gaps in their learning. This also helps them in readiness for their eventual move onto school. Children show high levels of motivation to try new things and are confident learners. n Staff plan fun and engaging experiences to support children's mathematical

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development. For instance, children enjoy using magic wands to make predictions and solve mathematical problems. Staff support them to weigh and measure and understand concepts, such as 'heavy', 'light' and 'equal' when exploring weighing scales. n Children develop a love of storytelling and books. Staff support children to

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21 May 2024 participate in a range of creative projects connected to their favourite stories. For instance, children enjoy decorating flower pots and making worms when reading the book 'Superworm'. Children delight in receiving letters and stickers from authors when they receive photographs of their project work. This helps to ignite a passion for early literacy and reading in the children. n Children have excellent opportunities to develop healthy lifestyles. For instance, pre-school staff have formed a partnership with a local farm and arranges trips to visit the animals and allotment. This helps children learn about healthy foods and nutrition. Furthermore, staff and parents have both recently benefited from 'promoting good oral health' training to best support children's toothbrushing habits and overall health. n Staff engage in an impressive amount of training to enhance their knowledge and professional development. Several discuss the benefits of completing

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'outdoor learning' training and how this has supported their practice when planning their outdoor environment. Consequently, children benefit from excellent outdoor learning experiences and relish all that is on offer outdoors. n Staff treat children with high levels of respect and children form strong and trusting bonds with the kind and attentive staff. Furthermore, staff give children lots of gentle reminders about turn-taking and showing consideration to each other. Children respond in an extremely positive manner and behave very well. n Partnerships with parents is a real strength of the pre-school. Parents express extremely high levels of satisfaction. They make comments such as 'staff are fully invested in the children. They are very attuned to their needs and genuinely care'. Parents state that they feel fully involved in their children's learning and feel that communication is excellent.

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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 EY497244 Local authority Havering Inspection number 10335877 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 24 Number of children on roll 35 Name of registered person Watts, Kelly Teresa

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reference number

Telephone number 07821 628601 Date of previous inspection 29 June 2018

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Information about this early years setting

Cherubs Pre school Friends Meeting House registered in 2015. The pre-school is based in Romford, in the London Borough of Havering. The pre-school is open from 9am to 12pm on Tuesday and Wednesday and from 9am to 3pm on Monday, Thursday and Friday, during term time only. The pre-school employs four members of staff, including the manager. All staff hold early years qualifications from level 3 to level 6. The pre-school provides free early years education for children aged two, three and four years.

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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 pre-school. n The inspector and manager completed a learning walk together to discuss the pre-school's ethos, values and aims. n The inspector gained parents, staff and children's views during the inspection. n A range of observations were carried out to assess the quality of education. n A variety of documentation was viewed, for instance, staff qualification and training certificates.

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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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