Early years · Early years inspection (EIF)
Teddy Wilf's @ Tangmere
Summary
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- Group verified
Clark, Megan Louise
- Group reference verified
RP515680
- Inspection date verified
22 May 2025
- Inspectors verified
Helen Penticost
- Behaviour and attitudes verified
Good
- Leadership and management verified
Good
- Overall effectiveness verified
Good
- Personal development verified
Good
- Previous overall verified
Inadequate
- Quality of education verified
Good
- Postcode verified
PO20 2HS
- Name on report verified
Teddy Wilf's @ Tangmere
- URN verified
2706920
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- OverallGood
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Leadership and managementGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
79% of comparable inspections in the last three years were graded Good (17,905 inspections).
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- Their enjoyment is infectious, and more children and staff join in, extending the game and children's enjoyment. p.2
- Leaders devise an ambitious curriculum that provides clear direction for staff to plan for children's learning along a road map. p.2
- There is a clear and effective leadership structure at the nursery where leaders and staff have a secure understanding of their roles and responsibilities. p.2
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- 6
- Words of findings
- 764
- about usual (typical 803)
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- Fairly hard
- Flesch 54, typical 54
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- 17 words
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- 1
- typical 2
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- 7%
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Inspection of Teddy Wilf's @ Tangmere Tangmere Village Centre, Malcolm Road, Tangmere, Chichester PO20 2HS
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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 Inadequate
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The provision is good
Children settle promptly at nursery and separate from their parents or carers with ease. Children's current interests aid in the process. For instance, when children share a leaf they found en route, staff discuss how they could do some leaf printing. Children, even babies, understand what is coming next in their daily routine. For example, staff give children notice of change and set a timer to help children to recognise when this time is up. Babies show skills that they have learned through effective demonstration and teaching. For instance, they understand how to use the hand pump to draw the water through the system and watch in awe and wonder as the water draws through and flows down the pipes into the waiting buckets. Children build high levels of resilience. For example, if they accidentally take a tumble, they recognise how to assess their situation and if they need support.
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The provision is good
Children consistently have opportunities to have their voices heard, and staff readily value their views. This starts from the youngest children having choices about their play, enabling them to understand that their opinions matter. Children enjoy being creative. They use coloured foam to make different-flavoured ice creams and a birthday cake. Staff extend their engagement, such as through enquiring how the foam and cooked spaghetti feel to touch. Children develop close relationships with other children and readily involve staff in their chosen activities. For example, children initiate a game of duck duck goose, showing that they know the rules. Their enjoyment is infectious, and more children and staff join in, extending the game and children's enjoyment. Children begin to understand the concept of size during their play. For example, staff ask children if the car is too small or too big to go down the ramp and, through trial and error, they work this
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need to do better?
n Leaders devise an ambitious curriculum that provides clear direction for staff to plan for children's learning along a road map. The main overall ethos for the setting is to ensure that children develop secure attachments. Staff devise clear plans for a challenging curriculum for each child that enables them to make the progress that they are capable of. n Staff have a clear knowledge of their role as a key person and fully understand children's family structures, interests and developmental stages. There is an effective system in place to enable all staff to understand what comes next in children's learning along the road map. This means that staff make the most of their interactions with children. n There is a clear and effective leadership structure at the nursery where leaders and staff have a secure understanding of their roles and responsibilities. Staff
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need to do better?
22 May 2025 receive a full induction and ongoing individual meetings to identify training needs and desires. This enables staff to continually build on their practice and knowledge. There is a clear family ethos to the setting, and support for staff's well-being is successful. n Children receive many differing ways to extend their communication and language development. For instance, staff use cue cards, communication boards and simple signing. However, staff sometimes ask children too many questions at once or answer questions for them. This does not consistently provide children with the time they need to gather their thoughts and respond to questions and to build on their understanding of the flow of a conversation. n Leaders are fully conversant with successful systems for observing and supporting staff's practice. They understand how to highlight good-quality teaching aspects and the areas for development for staff. This contributes to
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need to do better?
continually improving staff's knowledge and, therefore, the outcomes for children's learning. n Partnerships with parents are effective in exchanging information to enable parents to play a full and active role in their children's care and education. Parents report that they have seen their children grow in confidence and that their speaking skills have developed rapidly. This effective communication enhances relationships and provides consistency between the nursery and home. n The provision for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities is effective in ensuring that children receive the care and education they need. There is clear and successful liaison with parents and other professionals involved in children's lives. This enables all children to make good developmental progress and be ready for their next stage in life.
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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 build on staff's awareness of providing children with the time they need to gather their thoughts and response to questions staff pose.
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Setting details
Unique reference number 2706920 Local authority West Sussex Inspection number 10383810 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 32 Number of children on roll 45 Name of registered person Clark, Megan Louise
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reference number
Telephone number 07881740168 Date of previous inspection 14 January 2025
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Information about this early years setting
Teddy Wilf's @ Tangmere registered in 2022. The setting is located in Tangmere, Chichester. It is open Monday to Friday, from 8am to 5.30pm, all year round. There are 10 staff, eight of whom have appropriate early years qualifications. The setting provides funded early education for children aged two, three and four years.
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Inspection activities
n The provider, support manager and inspector completed a learning walk together and discussed the early years curriculum. n The inspector carried out a joint observation with the provider and manager. n The inspector spoke with staff and interacted with children. n Parents shared their views about the setting with the inspector. n The inspector observed the quality of education being provided and assessed the impact of this on children's learning.
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Inspection activities
22 May 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
22 May 2025 regulates and inspects to achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages. It regulates and inspects childcare and children's social care, and inspects the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass), schools, colleges, initial teacher training, further education and skills, adult and community learning, and education and training in prisons and other secure establishments. It assesses council children's services, and inspects services for looked after children, safeguarding and child protection.
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