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Little Chestnuts Preschool
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Little Chestnuts Preschool
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- Thurrock SS17 7LS
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Outstanding
| The quality of education | Outstanding |
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding |
| Personal development | Outstanding |
| Leadership and management | Outstanding |
| Overall effectiveness at previous inspection | Not Applicable |
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Indoor and Outdoor Facilities: Children move very confidently between play areas and make their own play choices from the interesting variety of activities on offer.
Activities: Children are inspired to engage in purposeful play, indoors and outdoors, with a wide range of resources that encourage them to be curious and creative.
Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Staff support them to share, take turns and develop an understanding of how their behaviour has an impact on others. Children develop high levels of self-control and an excellent awareness and understanding of their emotions.
Communication: Staff build effective partnerships with parents, who are exceptionally complimentary about the setting. Parents are offered highly effective support and ideas of how to complement their children's learning at home.
Community Building: The manager runs workshops for parents, explaining how and why the children learn the way they do. Parents value these sessions and comment on the new knowledge they have gained.
Programs and Resources: The care provided for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) is exceptional. Staff take great care to find out as much as they can about the children's likes, needs and family backgrounds.
Staff Training: Staff know the children they care for extremely well. They demonstrate a deep understanding of children's learning needs and consistently deliver high-quality interactions that effectively build on what children know.
Welcoming and Professional Staff: Children build incredibly strong bonds with staff, for whom they show genuine affection. Staff focus strongly on supporting children's emotional well-being and adapt their approach according to what each individual needs.
Safeguarding Training: Staff are very knowledgeable in relation to all aspects of safeguarding and update their training regularly. Ongoing discussions and quizzes help staff to test out and keep their understanding current.
Play and Learning Integration: Children engage in purposeful play and are curious, inquisitive learners. They thrive in the pre-school through individualised support from highly skilled and experienced staff.
Transition to Primary School: Children are actively encouraged to have a go at challenges and test out their ideas. All children, including those with SEND and children who speak English as an additional language, make excellent progress.
Child Safety Management: An effective balance is achieved between providing a safe environment while also allowing children to explore and take risks. Children learn how to keep themselves safe and demonstrate this through everyday opportunities.
Children's Safety and Security: Staff support them to share, take turns and develop an understanding of how their behaviour has an impact on others. As a result, children develop high levels of self-control and an excellent awareness and understanding of their emotions.
Teaching Personal Safety: For example, as children are sweeping up sand around the sand tray they explain that they need to do this so that no one slips and hurts themselves.
Happiness and Settling: Children arrive at the pre-school excited and very eager for their day to begin. They say goodbye to their adults outside and interact with warmth and confidence as their key person comes out to greet them.
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Little Chestnuts Preschool is a Nursery, Nursery located in Essex, East of England.
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Jodie Lucas, a certified primary teacher with a focus in early childhood education, oversees the nursery.
The remaining members of the team are all extremely skilled and knowledgeable; the majority of them have level 2 or level 3 childcare certifications or are pursuing these certifications through training.
Since developing children's personal, social, and emotional behaviour is crucial for positive future outcomes, the primary areas of learning are at the core of what we teach.
Little Chestnuts Preschool celebrates each child's uniqueness and challenges its students to share its ideals.
Little Chestnuts Preschool encourages all employees and volunteers to share its commitment to promoting and protecting children's welfare.
Our safeguarding policy, which is available for viewing and downloading in our 'Policies & Processes' section, is only one of many policies and procedures we have in place to support our commitment to child protection.
Each member of our staff is aware of the importance of encouraging, challenging, and developing each child at Little Chestnuts Preschool.
Two seasoned executives oversee the nursery.
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The remaining members of the team are all extremely skilled and knowledgeable; the majority of them have level 2 or level 3 childcare certifications or are pursuing these certifications through training.
Since developing children's personal, social, and emotional behaviour is crucial for positive future outcomes, the primary areas of learning are at the core of what we teach.
Little Chestnuts Preschool celebrates each child's uniqueness and challenges its students to share its ideals.
Little Chestnuts Preschool encourages all employees and volunteers to share its commitment to promoting and protecting children's welfare.
Our safeguarding policy, which is available for viewing and downloading in our 'Policies & Processes' section, is only one of many policies and procedures we have in place to support our commitment to child protection.
Each member of our staff is aware of the importance of encouraging, challenging, and developing each child at Little Chestnuts Preschool.
Two seasoned executives oversee the nursery.
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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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