Cherubs Elm Park

Inspection of Cherubs Elm Park (registration until: 21 Jul 2024) Elm Park Childrens Centre, Diban Avenue, Hornchurch RM12 4YH

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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

The friendly staff team greet children warmly. They arrive ready to engage in the interesting curriculum on offer. Children are happy to see their friends and quickly start to explore the learning environment. Staff know children well. They know children's learning preferences, and support and encourage children at all times. A strong key-person system ensures that children's well-being is championed at all times.

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The provision is good

Staff are excellent role models for children and have high expectations of their behaviour. They are polite and respectful to children and encourage them to be kind to all. Staff remind children to share resources and wait their turn. They ensure that children are given time and space to finish with resources before encouraging them to share with their friends.

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The provision is good

Staff provide children with an interesting and varied curriculum. Children show good levels of concentration, such as when they look for bugs in the garden and the count the legs on a spider. Children giggle with delight as they watch the spider move quickly on a log. All children make good progress from their starting points in development. Staff identify any gaps in children's learning quickly and put plans in place to support them further where necessary.

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need to do better?

n Leaders are experienced and knowledgeable. They support staff to provide children with a comprehensive curriculum that builds on what children already know. This helps children to build skills that will support their future learning. Staff encourage and support children to be confident and independent. n Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities receive targeted support from staff. Staff share information about children's development with professionals to support children to make the best possible progress. They support parents to understand the process of applying for additional support for their children. n Parents are very happy with the care that their children receive in the nursery. They value staff and comment on the feedback they receive from staff in an electronic app and in person. Parents feel that staff care deeply about their children and have no hesitation in recommending the pre-school to others.

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need to do better?

n Staff use circle time to ensure that children understand what is expected of them in terms of their behaviour. They sing a song that reminds everyone about the rules in the pre-school. Children talk openly about why the rules are important and remind each other if rules are broken. n Leaders ensure that they provide staff with opportunities to reflect on their performance and think about their well-being. Staff appreciate these

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4 July 2024 opportunities and feel well supported by leaders. Leaders offer staff training opportunities in face-to-face courses or on e-learning. Staff are included in discussions about the training that will benefit them. n Children play regularly in a large garden. Here, they run, climb, use scooters and are physically active in the fresh air. Staff play with children and encourage them to run fast and slow. They also talk to children about how fast their hearts beat after they have been running. Children learn about staying healthy and they eat healthy and nutritious snacks. n Children enjoy taking part in creative activities and using different materials to make ladybirds that they have seen in stories. However, sometimes, staff are over prescriptive about the activity and do not offer children opportunities to express themselves and choose materials. At these times, children do not develop their creative skills and the opportunity to make their own

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need to do better?

interpretations. n Staff use stories and songs to help children to understand their feelings. They use a mirror to look at their face and talk about how they feel. Staff encourage children to talk about their feelings and staff listen attentively as children explain. n Staff talk to children and narrate on what they are doing through the day. They use song and rhyme times with words and actions to help children to learn about the weather and days of the week. However, staff do not always challenge older children with words and vocabulary that are new to them to take their learning further. This means that some children do not reach their fullest potential in learning how to communicate.

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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 ensure that adult-led activities offer sufficient opportunities for children to make choices and extend their creativity n build on staff's teaching practice so that they understand how to extend and challenge older children's learning even further.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY541535 Local authority Havering Inspection number 10351765 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 20 Number of children on roll 29 Name of registered person Hannaway, Gail Barbara

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reference number

Telephone number 01708 434545 Date of previous inspection 15 October 2018

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Information about this early years setting

Cherubs Elm Park registered in 2015. The pre-school is located within Elm Park Children's Centre in the London Borough of Havering. The pre-school is open during term time, from 9am until 3pm on Monday to Thursday, and from 9am to midday on Friday. The pre-school employs seven members of staff, including the manager. Of these, four staff hold relevant childcare qualifications at level 2 or above. The pre-school receives funding to provide 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 talked to the inspector about their curriculum and what they want children to learn. n Children told the inspector about their friends and what they like to do when they are at pre-school. 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 on children's learning. n The inspector observed the interactions between staff and children. n The inspector spoke to several parents and took account their views. n The inspector looked at relevant documentation and reviewed evidence of the

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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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