Chapel Street Pre-school

Inspection of Chapel Street Pre-school Christ Church Halton, Chapel Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS15 7RW

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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

Children settle quickly and thoroughly enjoy their time at this happy setting. Staff are caring and promote children's well-being effectively. They know children well and build strong relationships with them. Children smile and have fun. Staff support children to recognise their emotions. They talk to children about their feelings. Staff have high expectations of children's behaviour. They model polite manners and respectful behaviour. This helps children to understand the expectations and follow the good examples set.

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The provision is good

Leaders are ambitious for all children's learning and development. Overall, the curriculum builds on what children know and can do. This supports all children to make good progress and be ready for the next stage of their education. Staff work effectively with others. For example, skilled staff work with children, their families and specialists when necessary. This helps to ensure that all children are included in the setting and make positive progress.

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The provision is good

Staff plan activities to help children learn more, based on gaps in their learning and their interests. This encourages children to become enthusiastic to join in, remain involved in activities and concentrate for longer. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, staff share more information about children's development through an online app than in meetings with parents. However, staff chat briefly with parents at drop-off and pick-up times.

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need to do better?

n Staff support children's speaking skills effectively. They speak clearly and teach children new words. Staff plan lots of opportunities for children to sing, learn rhymes and talk about books. They pause to give children time to think before answering questions. Staff use actions and objects to support children's understanding of speech. This helps children to develop their communication skills, including children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and children who are learning English as an additional language. n Staff plan activities to help children build their small and large muscles. For example, children squeeze play dough, use crayons to draw and help to serve their own breakfast. Children dance and skip during music sessions. They run and kick the ball outside. These experiences help children to develop their strength, coordination and balance. n Staff promote children's independence skills very effectively. For example, young

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need to do better?

children quickly learn to put an apron on themselves and to hang it up when finished. Staff have high expectations of children and build their independence over time. This helps children to be more responsible and independent as they become older.

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need to do better?

11 September 2024 n Leaders provide information for parents about keeping children's teeth and bodies healthy when they join the setting. They encourage families to join a dentist and share ideas about healthy lunches. Staff plan fun activities for children to help them learn to clean their teeth. These experiences help children learn to make healthy choices. n Staff plan activities to help children learn about celebrations and cultures. They ask families to share traditional food to help celebrate special times. Staff display words from children's home languages. This helps children learn about different families, special times and what makes them unique. n Staff promote children's literacy skills well. They regularly read books to children and encourage families to borrow books to take home. Staff show children how to write their names on their pictures and encourage them to have a try. Staff demonstrate how to follow instructions as they make play dough with children.

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need to do better?

These experiences support children's early literacy skills. n Overall, staff plan a wide range of indoor activities across a broad curriculum to support children's learning. However, opportunities for children's learning outdoors are more limited. This is because staff do not always plan a wide range of outdoor activities to support children's learning across the curriculum. As a result, children who prefer outdoor learning may not access as broad a curriculum as those children who learn inside. n Leaders are self-reflective and seek staff feedback with the help of trustees to find ways to improve the setting. For example, trustees and leaders have found a solution to reduce staff's workload. Leaders have correctly identified the need to develop outdoor learning opportunities for children. They also want to give parents more chances to share their views about the setting and their children's learning in person.

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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 the children's interests first.

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should:

n plan more carefully for children's learning across the curriculum when they choose to play outdoors n give parents more chances to share their views of the setting and their children's learning

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Setting details

Unique reference number 512718 Local authority Leeds Inspection number 10355168 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 40 Number of children on roll 36 Name of registered person Chapel Street Playgroup Committee

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reference number

Telephone number 01132640093 Date of previous inspection 20 November 2018

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Information about this early years setting

Chapel Street Pre-school registered in 1993 and is located in Leeds. The setting employs 11 members of staff. Of these, one member of staff holds an appropriate early years qualification at level 6, six staff hold early years qualifications at level 3, and four staff at level 2. The setting opens from 9.15am to 3.30pm, each weekday, during term time. It provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year- old children.

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Inspection activities

n The manager joined the inspector on a learning walk and talked to the inspector about the curriculum and what they want children to learn. n Staff spoke to the inspector during the inspection. n The inspector spoke with the registered individual about the leadership and management of the setting. n The special educational needs coordinator spoke to the inspector about how they support children with SEND. 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 carried out a joint observation of a communication and language activity with the deputy manager. n Parents shared their views of the setting with the inspector. n The manager showed the inspector documentation to demonstrate the suitability of staff.

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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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