St Paulinus Pre School

Inspection of St Paulinus Pre School St. Paulinus Church Centre, Hillcrest Road, EDENBRIDGE, Kent TN8 6JS

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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 successfully develop their communication and language skills. They listen with enjoyment to stories and learn new words. Staff use different ways to support children's communication skills, such as signing and picture cards. This helps children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), to communicate their needs and understand what is coming next.

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The provision is good

Children enjoy the many opportunities staff provide to enhance their physical skills. For example, they build their large-muscle strength as they practise climbing the steps to the slide. Additionally, they strengthen smaller muscles in their hands when they cut out shapes in play dough.

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The provision is good

Staff help to develop children's social skills and encourage them to share and take turns. This is demonstrated when children queue patiently for their turn on the climbing frame. Children enjoy their time at pre-school. They build strong friendships and enjoy being together. This is reflected in their good behaviour.

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The provision is good

Staff positively enhance children's literacy skills. For instance, children enjoy using brushes and paint to make marks on paper. This promotes their early writing abilities. Furthermore, children demonstrate how they recognise their name on their coat pegs, which prepares them well for the eventual move to school.

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n Staff plan an inviting environment that considers the interests of children. For example, children with younger siblings in the family develop their imaginations and language skills as they feed and dress baby dolls in the role-play area. n Staff teach children about their local community. For example, they talk to children about buildings in the town as they play with cars on a roadway playmat. However, staff are less successful at teaching children about the wider world. This means children do not always learn about different people living in communities beyond their own. n Staff use assessment well to monitor children's progress and identify any emerging gaps in their development, which they share with parents. Additionally, they suggest ideas to parents on how to extend their child's learning at home. n Staff work closely with parents and specialist services to plan strategies to help children with SEND. They use targeted plans to support how they adapt their

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practice so that the needs of children with SEND are met. n Staff give consistent messages about their high expectations of children. They closely supervise children and manage occasional minor disagreements effectively. Staff talk to children about how their actions make others feel and model the expected behaviours. This helps children to learn how to self-regulate

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19 November 2024 their emotions. Furthermore, staff successfully support children to learn about their feelings. They use a range of ways, such as sharing stories and picture prompts to help children understand how they are feeling. n Staff have strong, warm bonds with children. They give them lots of positive feedback, which supports children's self-esteem well. For example, children are proud of themselves when staff praise them for pouring their own drink. n Staff support children to develop their independence skills, such as when they wash their own dishes after mealtimes. However, during some routines, children get distracted by other activities taking place, such as children queueing to wash their hands during group singing sessions. This means children's learning is sometimes disrupted. n Leaders ensure additional funding the setting receives is spent in a range of ways to meet the individual needs of children. For example, they have recently

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purchased resources to improve children's communication and language skills in readiness for starting school. n Parents are highly complementary about the education their children receive. They praise the efforts staff go to in order to help them find any extra support they may need. n Leaders monitor staff practice to help them identify any areas for improvement. Staff complete training and share new knowledge with their colleagues to ensure good quality teaching.

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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 develop the curriculum to help children learn about other people and communities different from their own n review and strengthen the organisation of routines to minimise unnecessary disturbance to children's learning.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 127618 Local authority Kent Inspection number 10368356 Type of provision Childcare on non-domestic premises Registers Early Years Register Day care type Sessional day care

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inspection

Total number of places 24 Number of children on roll 26 Name of registered person St Paulinus Pre-School Committee

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reference number

Telephone number 07796 795 811 Date of previous inspection 18 March 2019

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Information about this early years setting

St Paulinus Pre School registered in 1973. It operates from a church hall in the town of Edenbridge, in Kent. The pre-school is open Monday to Friday, from 9.15am to 1.15pm. The pre-school employs seven members of staff, of whom six hold full and relevant early years qualifications. The pre-school receives funding for early years education for children aged two, three and four years and early years pupil premium funding.

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Inspection activities

n The manager and inspector completed a learning walk together of all areas of the nursery and discussed the early years curriculum. n The inspector talked to staff at appropriate times during the inspection and took account of their views. n The inspector spoke with parents and took account of their views. n The manager and the inspector carried out a joint observation to assess the quality of teaching.

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19 November 2024 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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