Marvel Pre-School

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About Marvel Pre-School


Name Marvel Pre-School
Inspections
Ofsted Inspections
Address All Saints Church Hall, Monson Road, London, SE14 5EH
Phase Childcare on Non-Domestic Premises, Sessional day care
Gender Mixed
Local Authority Lewisham
Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The provision is good

Children arrive at the welcoming nursery excited to see their friends. They form friendships as they explore familiar books and repeat key vocabulary and phrases.

Children learn about the world around them when they visit the local park. Staff encourage them to look around and describe the weather. Older children help younger children climb and balance on the climbing frame.

Children giggle and shriek with joy as they work together to create a train and make 'choo choo' sounds. Staff support children develop their counting skills through daily activities. For example, children count how many children are in.

T...hey also count the number of cups and plates needed during snack time. Children enjoy exploring shapes and making repeated patterns using different shapes.Children behave well and are kind, courteous and respectful towards each other.

Staff promote a culture of supporting children to understand how to manage their emotions. They encourage children to use a feelings chart to express how they are feeling. During circle time, they build on their emotional literacy vocabulary.

Staff act as role models and have high expectations of all children's behaviour. Children are familiar with the routines and expectations. They help tidy up before going outside to play and take care of their learning environment.

What does the early years setting do well and what does it need to do better?

The manager passionately explains how she supports staff to deliver the curriculum personalised to their individual key children's stage of learning. Staff benefit from receiving coaching and mentoring from the manager. This supports them to develop their understanding and knowledge of the curriculum, particularly in the prime areas and assessment of children.

This enables staff to plan effectively to support the learning and development of each child from their current stage of development.The manager has built positive partnerships with the local authority early years advisory team and external professionals. She attends 'Early years manager's network training' provided by the local authority.

Parent partnerships have been developed well. Parents value the feedback they receive about their child's learning and development. They express how pleased they are with the progress their child makes at the nursery.

Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and children with English as an additional language, have relevant support in place. For example, the manager and staff have worked hard since the previous inspection. They now extend the opportunities for children to sing nursery rhymes and see and hear their home languages during their play.

Staff work with parents to support children to settle quickly, by learning key vocabulary and phrases from their first language. This supports children to develop their English language as well.All staff encourage children to practise brushing the model teeth using a toothbrush.

They discuss the importance of eating and drinking healthily to keep their teeth healthy.Staff generally support children in developing some independence skills, such as washing their hands independently. However, staff to do not consistently encourage children to securely build on their independence skills through daily activities and routines.

Children sit and enjoy activities together. They explore paint with determination as they use the painting brush to mix colours. Overall, children's communication and language are promoted well.

However, staff do not always ask questions to allow children to think critically.Overall, staff support children to be active and plan opportunities for them to develop their fine motor skills. However, staff do not plan as well as possible to provide a range of challenging activities that can further support children's gross motor skills.

The manager works closely with the owner and staff to evaluate their practice and the provision to ensure all children make good progress. She acts on feedback shared by staff and parents. Staff feel very well supported and appreciate the training opportunities made available to them to further enhance their practice.

The nursery promotes and celebrates each child and staff's ethnicity and culture, valuing diversity. Children benefit from learning about each other's culture during cultural celebration month. They come in dressed in their cultural clothes.

Parents bring in their cultural dish as part of the cultural day celebrations.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.The manager and staff have a good understanding of how to keep children safe.

They confidently explain how they would refer any concerns about the welfare of a child. Staff complete daily risk assessments to ensure the learning environments and resources are safe for children to use. Managers carry out robust recruitment procedures to ensure staff are suitably vetted to work with children.

Staff complete mandatory safeguarding training before starting to work with children in the nursery. The manager carries out ongoing suitability checks of staff and agency staff to ensure they remain suitable to work with children.

What does the setting need to do to improve?

To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: refine how staff plan activities to ensure all children have access to rich experiences that promote their gross motor skill development maximise opportunities to encourage children to do things for themselves to consistently build on their independence skills make better use of questioning during activities to increase children's thinking skills.


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