GattenandLake Childcare

Inspection of GattenandLake Childcare Gatten and Lake County Primary School, Oaklyn Gardens, SHANKLIN, Isle of Wight PO37 7DG

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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 Inadequate

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The provision is good

Staff provide children with a warm, welcoming and safe environment for them to play and learn in. Staff recognise and respond to younger and less confident children, to help them to settle into the pre-school happily. Children form close relationships with staff and with their friends. They enjoy playing with and alongside each other in group activities, developing good behaviours, as they show kindness and consideration of each other's needs. For instance, as older children build towers, they wait patiently for their younger friends to choose bricks before they select the ones they would like. Staff skilfully incorporate mathematical language into children's play, such as helping children to count out bricks and work out who has the highest tower.

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The provision is good

Managers and staff create a varied curriculum for children. They recognise and respond to the differing ages and needs of children they care for. Children benefit from hands-on opportunities to learn about the natural world. For instance, they check the butterflies in readiness for releasing and talk excitedly about them once being caterpillars and then chrysalises. Children are excited to learn as staff take the time to ignite their curiosity. This helps to motivate children's learning and lays the foundations for future learning well. All children, including those in receipt of additional funding and those with special educational needs and or disabilities (SEND), make good progress from their starting points. Staff use additional funding well, including for one-to-one care, where children need extra support.

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need to do better?

n Managers and staff have worked hard to successfully address weakness from the last inspection. Oversight of the pre-school is good. The managers implement safe recruitment and vetting processes to ensure that staff are suitable for their role and that they understand their responsibilities. n Staff say they feel valued and benefit from regular supervisions to support them in their roles. Managers have put in place training for staff who work with the youngest children. This helps staff to review their knowledge of how children learn and helps them to adapt teaching to the needs of the youngest. Changes to planning are in their infancy and the managers recognise staff knowledge around learning intent, to enable them to focus specifically on what children need to learn next, is an area of future development. n The managers review the curriculum and staff plan for children's learning regularly. Staff have a good knowledge about their key children's interests and

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abilities. They use observations and assessments to plan exciting and interesting learning opportunities. Staff demonstrate good teaching practice. However, on occasion, they do not challenge older and the most-able children's learning, to build on what they already know and can do.

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need to do better?

18 June 2024 n Staff place a strong focus on children's personal, social and emotional development. They encourage and support children's positive behaviour, good manners and courtesy when at the pre-school. Staff are good role models. They are kind and children learn the importance of kindness in daily routines. For instance, children wait patiently to wash their hands before they sit to eat and for their friends to finish eating before they go to play. Children behave well. n Staff support all children's communication and language skills well. They use opportunities within learning experiences to teach children how to say new words and explain their meaning. For instance, as toddlers explore the soil and water, staff talk about textures being squidgy and squashy. Children hear these new words and repeat them back, to build on their language skills. Where children, including those with SEND, need help with communicating their needs,

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staff offer picture references, so that all children can share their wants, needs and wishes. This helps to promote children's communication and language skills well. n Parents speak positively about the pre-school. They say that staff take the time to get to know children and their families. Staff share information about children's daily experiences and key achievements. They offer advice and guidance to parents, which they find useful. For instance, staff share tips on toilet training, healthy lunchtime foods that parents provide, and routines around mealtimes. Parents value these ideas, to help support children's learning at home.

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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 embed staff's understanding of curriculum intentions to enable them to focus specifically on what children need to learn next n consider ways of providing further challenge for older and the most-able children, to extend their learning.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY466931 Local authority Isle of Wight Inspection number 10334330 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 38 Number of children on roll 44 Name of registered person Janette Nye and Tracy Butcher Partnership

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reference number

Telephone number 07718486058 Date of previous inspection 6 February 2024

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Information about this early years setting

GattenandLake Childcare registered in 2013. The pre-school employs nine members of staff, including the two owners who are also managers. Of these, all hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3 or above. The pre-school opens Monday to Friday from 8.50am until 2.50pm, during term time only. It also offers before- and after-school care from 8am until 8.50am and 3pm until 6pm, and a holiday club. The pre-school provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.

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Inspection activities

n The inspector discussed any continued 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 talked to the inspector about their curriculum and what they want their children to learn. n The inspector talked to staff at appropriate times during the inspection and took account of their views. n The inspector observed the quality of education being provided, indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact that this was having on children's learning. n Parents shared their views of the setting with the inspector. n The inspector looked at relevant documentation and reviewed evidence of the suitability of staff working in the pre-school.

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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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