Spring Wellsprings

Inspection of Spring Wellsprings Wellsprings Leisure Centre, Cheddon Road, Taunton TA2 7QP

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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 Not applicable

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The provision is good

The children arrive happy and very keen to attend this caring and welcoming setting. Staff are calm and patient and build trusting relationships with all children. Through a carefully planned transition, the youngest children settle in quickly and begin to explore with confidence. Staff encourage a high level of independence in children from a young age, with toddlers feeding, dressing and organising themselves. Children enjoy the café-style lunch table, independently serving and cutting up their food. They also have opportunities to dance, sing and play musical instruments.

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The provision is good

Children enjoy a well-balanced curriculum with a range of activities that support their interests and learning. They use their imagination well and enjoy construction, drawing with a range of medium and role play. There are opportunities to develop their gross and fine motor skills throughout all areas, which supports their early handwriting skills. Their problem-solving skills are challenged in the outside environment, and children love to mix, stir and pour in the mud kitchen. Children learn about the wider community by visiting local parks and farms.

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The provision is good

Staff are very good role models and continually support the children's mental health and well-being, giving them the necessary language to express feelings and emotions. They develop the children's communication and listening skills through modelling language and rephrasing sentences.

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need to do better?

n Leaders build strong relationships with children, ensuring all children who are disadvantaged access an ambitious curriculum. The well-established key-person system supports the children's resilience and independence. This is very much celebrated by parents, and they feel that their children are safe and secure. n The emotional well-being of children underpins the curriculum. The children are confident communicators and can articulate their emotions and feelings well. n Staff routinely introduce children to new vocabulary that enables them to communicate successfully with each other, taking turns and promoting positive play. n Language and developing a love of reading, song and rhyme are at the heart of the curriculum. Most children listen attentively when they are being read to and suggest what they think is going to happen next. They join in with familiar stories and rhymes, repeating repetitive phrases and words.

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need to do better?

n Leaders support staff in using assessment to plan for children's next steps and build on children's experiences across the curriculum. Children learn to count and recognise numerals, colours and shapes. However, on occasions, staff's skills in consistently engaging and challenging the quieter or less confident learners

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need to do better?

1 April 2025 need developing. n There is the appropriate balance between the inside and outside play, with leaders making the most of the space available. The children demonstrate good physical skills and are given opportunities to develop their balance and coordination. Staff help children to learn about being safe, while allowing them to take risks. n Children are well behaved and respond well to the structure and routines of the day. Staff encourage children to be independent in their eating from a young age and to taste new foods they have not tried before. n Leaders have a good oversight of the setting and a clear ambition for developing the quality of care and learning even further, especially the outdoor provision. They value working in partnership with parents, who provide positive feedback. Parents state, for example, that staff are approachable, patient and engaging. They comment that through the online communication portal they are kept

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need to do better?

regularly updated about their child's progress and learning. n The staff work with enthusiasm and take pride in the care and learning they provide. Leaders ensure that staff access a varied professional development programme that builds on their existing knowledge. Staff have a good understanding of their safeguarding roles and responsibilities and the procedures to follow in the event of any concerns about a child in their care.

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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 include quieter children more effectively during group activities to enhance learning and personal development opportunities.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 2711641 Local authority Somerset Inspection number 10376620 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 45 Number of children on roll 45 Name of registered person Action For Children Developments Ltd

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reference number

Telephone number 01823 289997 Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Information about this early years setting

Spring Wellsprings registered in 2022 and operates from the grounds of Wellsprings Leisure Centre in Taunton, Somerset. It opens each weekday between 8am and 6pm, all year round. The setting employs 12 staff to work with children, seven of whom hold appropriate qualifications between levels 2 and 6. The setting provides government funded places.

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Inspection activities

n The inspector and the acting manager completed joint observations of the children's activities and discussed the quality and effectiveness of staff's interactions and the quality of the education provided. n The manager joined the inspector on a learning walk and talked to the inspector about the curriculum and what they intend children to learn. n The inspector sampled the documentation, such as records of suitability of staff. n The inspector took account of the verbal views of parents and children's views.

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Inspection activities

1 April 2025 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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Inspection activities

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