Victory House Children's Centre

Inspection of Victory House Children's Centre R C C G, Victory House, 5 Congreve Street, London SE17 1TJ

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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 are happy and show excitement as they greet staff and their friends in the morning. Staff organise the rooms well and provide a wide range of varied activities for children to engage with. They plan around children's interests and next steps in development, as well as using a topic-based approach. There are clear assessment procedures in place when children first start. Staff use ongoing assessments to support their planning and to set personalised targets for children.

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The provision is good

Children feel valued and emotionally secure at nursery. This is because staff offer them high praise and encouragement as they play and engage in activities. Staff remind children of the importance of showing respect for each other and sharing resources with their friends. The nursery has bright and engaging displays to celebrate children's successes and achievements.

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The provision is good

Staff want children to feel part of their community. Children enjoy trips out to local markets, enjoy weekly trips to the library and visits to their community dentist. This helps children to understand the importance of community cohesion and develops their knowledge and understanding of the world. Staff provide dedicated reading areas in each of the rooms. This allows for children to self-select books to look at and to share stories with staff. There is also a lending library to encourage children to take books home to share with their parents and carers. This supports children to develop a love for reading.

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need to do better?

n Children behave well. They respond to staff's instructions for tidying up and lining up for the toilet. Staff remind children of their expectations to sit down at circle times and mealtimes, and for using their manners when asking for things. Children take turns in sharing fruit at snack time and in pouring their own drinks. Staff praise them as they listen to their friends and develop their social skills. n Children enjoy circle time and group-time activities. They enjoy choosing songs to sing to and music to dance to. For example, younger children enjoy clapping and jumping and joining in with familiar action songs. Older children enjoy dancing and moving to the music of action songs. Staff join in and encourage and support children to be imaginative and expressive. n Staff generally support children's language well. For example, they ask questions for children to respond to and by repeating the words and sounds children make

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need to do better?

back to them. However, staff do not consistently encourage and develop all children's language as they play. For example, at times, they do not label objects, model short sentences and extend children's vocabularies. n Children enjoy the many opportunities they have to be physically active. Babies have adequate floor space to practise crawling and walking. Younger children

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18 November 2024 enjoy trips to the local park, where they can run, climb through tunnels and slide down slides. Older children enjoy playing chasing games, such as hide and seek, and throwing and catching and kicking balls. n Staff plan many opportunities across the nursery for children to develop their small-muscle skills. For example, younger children enjoy manipulating play dough with rolling pins and cutters, filling and emptying pots in the sand tray and using pipettes in the water tray. Pre-school children thread cotton reels onto string to make necklaces, fill measuring jugs and use pens to make marks. n Parents are happy with the warmth that staff show their children. They say they are fully involved in their children's learning and receive ideas to help at home. Parents are particularly pleased with the confidence that their children have gained since starting nursery. n The leadership team understands the importance of professional development

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need to do better?

and supports staff to gain early years recognised qualifications. Staff liaise with professionals, such as speech and language therapists and physiotherapists, to support children with specific needs. The close working relationships with their local authority early years advisory team means they have a clear vision for moving forward and building on existing practice. However, the leadership team has not offered staff further training on planning and delivering interventions for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) to ensure that all children have the opportunities to achieve the best possible outcomes.

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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 support staff to extend all children's communication and language further during their play n strengthen support for staff to plan and deliver interventions, in particular for children with SEND, to ensure that all children achieve the best possible outcomes.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY358902 Local authority Southwark Inspection number 10367344 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 55 Number of children on roll 65

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Name of registered person

Victory in Communities Resource Centre (Vicr) Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 07950505241 0207 2527522Head office Date of previous inspection 5 February 2019

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Information about this early years setting

Victory House Children's Centre registered in 2007 and is located in the London Borough of Southwark. The nursery is open during term time, from 8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday. It employs seven members of childcare staff, of whom five staff hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 2 and 3. The director of the company holds early years professional status. The nursery provides government funded childcare.

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Inspection activities

n The manager and inspector completed a learning walk to discuss what staff want children to learn. n Staff and children spoke to the inspector during the inspection. n The inspector carried out general observations of children and staff interacting. n The inspector carried out a joint observation of an activity with the manager. n The inspector spoke to a range of parents and viewed testimonies to seek their views on the nursery. n The inspector engaged in a meeting with the leadership team. n The inspector looked at a range of relevant documents.

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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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