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Lightcliffe Pre-School
Christ Church, Wakefield Road, Hipperholme, HX3 8AA
Type of Institution
Nursery
Age group
- years old
Number of places
Not yet updated
Number of staff
Not yet updated
Ofsted Rating
Good
Summary
- The provision is good Children are busy, active learners, who relish a chal enge.
- Staff know the children wel and understand their capabilities.
- They talk confidently about the skil s they are focusing on with children and the reasons why.
- When children returned to the setting, following time off during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, staff completed baseline assessments for all children so they were able to provide targeted areas of support for each individual.
- Procedures for settling children back into the setting were careful y considered and discussed with parents.
- This helped to ensure a smooth return back into the setting.
- Children are encouraged to develop an early appreciation and love of books.
- Books are taken outside to enjoy, as wel as inside, and children enjoy looking at these together and talking about their favourite books.
- Group story times are planned twice daily, to take account of those children who may not access books as freely as others.
- Staff deployment is effective in ensuring children are safely supervised and wel supported.
- Staff support children to gain an understanding of other's feelings and learn how their behaviour impacts on others.
- They learn about responsibility as they help to clear up after themselves.
- Working col aboratively, they skilfully use dustpans, brushes, and brooms to sweep up after themselves.
- What does the early years setting do well and what does it need to do better?n The curriculum is carefully designed to build on what children know and can do.
- Children have opportunities to practise the skil s they have learned, to help them grow in confidence and to secure their knowledge.n Staff encourage children to follow their interests and test out their ideas.
- Staffare there to offer support along the way and to bring in the key skil s to the learning experience, as identified in learning plans.n Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are wel supported.
- Gaps in learning are quickly identified and discussed with parents.
- Staff are proactive in getting professionals on board to get children the help and support they need.
- This targeted approach helps to prevent gaps from widening.n Children learn news words and their meaning, building vocabulary.
- They explorethe core of an apple and talk about growing their own apple trees, planting the pips and what trees need to grow.n Staff engage in lots of dialogue with children, and most are very skil ed at this.
- They talk about what is happening and why and what might happen next.
- However, not all staff allow children sufficient time to process information.
- On occasions, this leads to staff answering their own questions before children have
Extract from latest Ofsted Report.
Overview
Manager
Not yet updated
Owner
Pre-School Learning Alliance
Provider type
Childcare on non-domestic premises
Provider subtype
Sessional day care
Local authority
Calderdale
Parliamentary Constituency
Calder Valley
Education Stages
Year Founded
23/2/2018
Education Provision
Education Stages
Nursery / Early Years
0 - 3 year olds
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