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Coniston Early Years Centre incorporating St Chad's Pre School | Ofsted Reports, Reviews (2025)
Coniston Early Years Centre incorporating St Chad's Pre School
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Coniston Early Years Centre incorporating St Chad's Pre School
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- Patchway BS34 5LN
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| The quality of education | Good |
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Good |
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Indoor and Outdoor Facilities: Children relish the many sensory opportunities available, such as painting, exploring sand and making play dough. Children benefit from the freedom to move between the indoor and outdoor spaces.
Forest School Sessions: The trained forest school staff lead sessions for children in a local woodland, offering children very beneficial opportunities to learn about and experience nature.
Activities: Children form close relationships with their key person and the other staff. Children enjoy suitably risky play in the wonderful gardens. They hunt for bugs, collecting these in tubs and discussing their different characteristics with staff.
Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Staff use accurate observations and assessments to identify the next steps in children's learning. Children make good progress; this includes children with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those in receipt of additional funding.
Community Building: The manager has useful links within the local community. They liaise with the neighbouring school and children's centre, working with them to support families effectively.
Communication: Staff share lots of information with parents. However, sometimes staff do not always gain as much information as possible, such as useful key words in children's home languages, to help staff support children's understanding as they settle in.
Programs and Resources: Children make good progress; this includes children with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those in receipt of additional funding.
Staff Training: Staff liaise with the special educational needs coordinator (SENDCo) and parents, putting in place additional support.
Welcoming and Professional Staff: Staff welcome children warmly as they arrive at the pre-school. They show kindness and offer patient reassurance to help new children settle.
Safeguarding Training: She checks and supports the staff's understanding of safeguarding during regular meetings and ensures that they renew their knowledge through a range of training.
Play and Learning Integration: Children develop positive attitudes to learning and develop their skills well, including children who speak English as an additional language and two-year-olds in receipt of funding.
Diversity Management: However, sometimes staff do not always gain as much information as possible, such as useful key words in children's home languages, to help staff support children's understanding as they settle in.
Child Safety Management: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. Staff carry out thorough risk assessments of all areas.
Children's Safety and Security: Transition to Primary School: Do children feel safe & secure in a nursery? Staff know what to do if they are worried about a child in their care.
Teaching Personal Safety: They also show confident knowledge of the procedures to follow for concerns about the conduct of other staff.
Happiness and Settling: Staff welcome children warmly as they arrive at the pre-school. They show kindness and offer patient reassurance to help new children settle.
Nutritional Menu: They take an active part in mealtimes. They select items independently and pour their own drinks, then conscientiously put their snack bowl and cup in the washing-up bowl when they have finished.
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Coniston Early Years Centre incorporating St Chad's Pre School is a Nursery, Nursery located in Gloucestershire, South West.
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Holidays 2024/25
| Holidays | Date |
|---|---|
| Autumn Half Term Holidays | 28th Oct 2024 - 1st Nov 2024 |
| Winter Holidays | 23rd Dec 2024 - 3rd Jan 2025 |
| Spring Half Term Holidays | 17th Feb 2025 - 21st Feb 2025 |
| Spring Holidays | 7th Apr 2025 - 21st Apr 2025 |
| Summer Half Term Holidays | 26th May 2025 - 30th May 2025 |
| Summer Holidays | 23rd Jul 2025 - 29th Aug 2025 |
Terms Dates 2024/25
| Terms | Dates |
|---|---|
| Autumn Term | 2nd Sep 2024 - 27th Oct 2024 |
| Autumn Term-2 | 2nd Nov 2024 - 22nd Dec 2024 |
| Spring Term | 4th Jan 2025 - 16th Feb 2025 |
| Spring Term-2 | 22nd Feb 2025 - 6th Apr 2025 |
| Summer Term | 22nd Apr 2025 - 25th May 2025 |
| Summer Term-2 | 31st May 2025 - 22nd Jul 2025 |
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