Squirrels Pre-School Rugby Ltd

Inspection of Squirrels Pre-School Rugby Ltd Paddox Primary School, Fareham Avenue, RUGBY, Warwickshire CV22 5HS

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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

The provider has made the necessary improvements since the last inspection to ensure that all staff's understanding of the local safeguarding procedures for reporting concerns about children's welfare is secure. All children, including those who are new to the setting, are happy and content in the pre-school. On arrival, they settle quickly into play with their friends. Children build close relationships with staff, who are warm and caring towards them. Staff take time to ensure they know children well. This helps them to respond to children's emotional needs. As a result, children feel safe and secure in their care.

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The provision is good

Staff arrange the play environments and resources specifically to interest and motivate children to engage in play and learning. For example, some children begin to recognise numbers. They use the available resources of bee counters and daisies and work together to find the matching numbers. Staff give timely praise for their efforts and achievements, which helps to increase children's confidence in their abilities. Children behave well. Staff use gentle reminders for children to be kind to their friends. Children arrange turn-taking between themselves during play and begin to resolve minor disputes between themselves. Children gain the skills and understanding they need to prepare them for the next stage of their learning.

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need to do better?

n The pre-school curriculum is well sequenced to ensure children continually build on what they already know and can do. Staff gain useful information from parents when children first start. This helps them understand children's prior learning and inform plans for their future learning. Staff make appropriate adaptations to the curriculum to ensure that children gain the learning they need when they need it. n Staff provide well-considered interactions during play with all children. This includes children who need some additional support. They use a range of approaches to support children, including adult-led teaching for specific skills, as well as specific learning during play. For example, they use open-ended questions with children to enable them to practise their speaking skills while they name a range of tools in their toolbox. That said, there is scope to further consider how children who speak English as an additional language may

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need to do better?

continue to develop and practise their home language to enhance their understanding while they learn the English language. n The promotion of communication and language development is a strength. Children enjoy regular songs, rhymes and stories that are well read by staff. Staff pause at appropriate times to help children think about what has happened in the story and to predict what might happen next. Staff provide ample time for children to think and respond with their thoughts and ideas. As a result, children

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need to do better?

16 September 2025 become confident talkers. n Children develop increasing independence over time. For example, they learn to manage their personal care, dressing, undressing and the sequence of handwashing. Staff provide clear explanations and support as needed to help children strengthen these abilities. This helps children to be well prepared to manage these tasks for themselves, when they move on to school. n Children learn about what keeps them healthy and how to keep themselves safe. For instance, children know and understand the routines to keep themselves clean, washing their hands after using the toilet and before they eat. Staff include discussions at mealtimes about the foods children eat and how these contribute towards keeping them healthy. Children receive clear messages from staff about how to keep themselves safe when they use the equipment to climb, jump between and slide down. n Managers ensure that all staff receive the mandatory training, such as for first

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need to do better?

aid and safeguarding. Staff also receive additional training about a broad range of child protection matters and other areas of interest to help increase their knowledge and understanding. That said, there is scope to provide staff with opportunities to reflect on their practice and professional development to continue to strengthen practice in the provision to the highest possible levels. n Parents are happy and speak highly of the pre-school and its friendly staff. They say their children are making positive progress and enjoy attending. Parents say they are happy with the information they receive, both online and at collection times, about their children's care and learning.

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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 increase the opportunities for children who speak English as an additional language to use their home language to help aid their understanding n provide staff with opportunities to reflect on their practice and professional development to continue to raise the quality of provision to the highest possible levels.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY458644 Local authority Warwickshire Inspection number 10416636 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 Sessional day care

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inspection

Total number of places 30 Number of children on roll 28 Name of registered person Squirrels Pre-School Rugby Ltd

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reference number

Telephone number 01788 576 167 Date of previous inspection 12 June 2025

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Information about this early years setting

Squirrels Pre-School Rugby Ltd registered in 2013. The pre-school is situated in the grounds of Paddox Primary School, Rugby. It opens on Monday to Friday, from 9am to 3pm, term time only. The pre-school employs five members of childcare staff, of whom one holds an appropriate early years qualification at level 5 and two at level 3. The pre-school provides government funding for all eligible children aged from nine months.

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Inspection activities

n The leader, who is also the manager, showed the inspector all areas of the premises and discussed how staff ensure that it is safe and suitable for children to attend. n The inspector observed the quality of teaching throughout the inspection and considered the impact this has on children's learning. A joint evaluation of the quality of teaching during an activity took place between the leader and the inspector. n The inspector spoke to parents at appropriate times and took into account their views of the pre-school. n The inspector spoke to children and staff at appropriate times during the inspection. n The inspector held a meeting with the leader and discussed how the setting was organised. The inspector reviewed relevant documentation, including evidence of the suitability of staff working in the setting.

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Inspection activities

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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