Little Pioneers Nursery & Pre-School, Rose Hill.

Inspection of Little Pioneers Nursery & Pre-School, Rose Hill. The Oval, Ashurst Way, Rosehill, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX4 4UY

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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 create a warm and welcoming environment. Children are greeted with smiles and kind words. Children settle well and show they feel safe and secure. Staff are realistic in their expectations of children's behaviour. They know that children need help and guidance as they learn to understand and manage their emotions. Staff help children understand that everyone feels sad, cross or overwhelmed sometimes. The effective support that staff offer children as they navigate these emotions results in children who behave well for their age and are able to consider the feelings of others.

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The provision is good

Leaders have developed a curriculum that is suitably ambitious for all children. They quickly identify children who may need extra support to make the progress of which they are capable. This enables support to be put in place as needed to ensure that these children progress well in their learning. Staff understand the overall curriculum intent. As well as helping children make progress with their social, communication and physical skills, staff are especially successful at helping children play purposefully and imaginatively. For example, staff model for children how to take on the roles of doctors and ambulance drivers using available resources. Children are then able to extend these games themselves, developing not only their imagination but also skills they need to be successful learners. For example, children develop their concentration and learn how to take account of other people's views and opinions.

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need to do better?

n Leaders have successfully developed staff's skills in supporting children's language development. Staff consistently help children learn new words and practise their conversation skills. Staff working with babies focus on key words and phrases that help young children make links between the words they hear and the things they see and do. Older children have lots of opportunities to hold back-and-forth conversations with staff. n Many of the learning experiences staff offer children are well-matched to their stage of development. However, sometimes staff do not fully consider how to ensure that activities precisely focus on what children most need to learn next. For example, babies are sometimes offered mark-making resources that are better suited for older children. At these times, children find what is asked of them too hard, and teaching is less effective than at other times. n Staff teach children to do things for themselves very well. Starting with babies,

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staff teach children a range of practical skills that enables them to become more and more independent. The success of this approach is seen in how well older children use cutlery, serve their own food and put on their own coats. n Staff offer children an inviting range of activities. However, sometimes staff focus

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30 October 2024 their attention on children who are confident to approach them. They do not always recognise when children are less confident to do so and who would benefit from more adult interactions to engage in meaningful learning. n Staff welcome children warmly to activities and interact in ways that maintain children's interest well. This encourages children to persevere and helps them enjoy their learning. For example, babies show real delight in water play. Staff successfully encourage them to keep trying as they chase bubbles and splash noisily. n Staff are attentive to children's care needs. This is especially evident in staff who look after babies and very young children. They follow, wherever possible, sleep routines from home. They help babies settle to sleep and recognise when they are not yet ready for a nap, adapting their routines accordingly. Throughout the nursery, children show good levels of well-being and that they thoroughly enjoy

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need to do better?

their time at nursery. n Parents find leaders approachable and staff helpful. They appreciate the thorough handovers and feel that staff know their children well. Staff are very successful at helping parents understand how children's care needs have been met. However, current arrangements for sharing information are less successful at helping parents understand fully what their children have been learning. This impacts on parents' ability to build further on children's learning at home. n Staff speak positively about working at the nursery. Leaders have put in place an effective programme of professional development for staff. They have successfully helped staff grow in confidence in their roles as educators. This focus has led to a staff team that plans and delivers a curriculum that helps ensure children are well prepared for the next stage in their learning journey.

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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 identify more precisely what children most need to learn next to ensure that activities and resources are more closely matched to children's current stage of development n support staff to recognise and respond when children are showing they would benefit from more adult interactions to extend their learning n build on warm partnerships with parents to help them develop a secure understanding of what their children are learning to enable them to further support learning at home.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY277886 Local authority Oxfordshire Inspection number 10366882 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 100 Number of children on roll 105 Name of registered person The Midcounties Co-Operative Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 01865 401852 Date of previous inspection 9 August 2021

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Information about this early years setting

Little Pioneers Nursery & Pre-School, Rose Hill, registered in 2004 and is situated in Oxford. The nursery is open from 7.30am to 6.30pm, Monday to Friday, throughout the year. The nursery provides funded early education for children aged nine months and above. The nursery employs 31 members of childcare staff. Of these, three hold appropriate qualifications at level 6 and 22 hold appropriate qualifications at level 2 or level 3.

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Inspection activities

n The inspector, the manager and the deputy manager completed a learning walk together and discussed the early years curriculum. n The manager and the inspector carried out a joint observation. n The inspector held meetings with leaders and representatives of the provider to find out about the leadership and management of the setting. n Parents and the children shared their views, and the inspector took these into account. n The inspector looked at a sample of key documentation.

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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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