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Richmond Pre-school CIC
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Richmond Pre-school CIC
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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 | Outstanding |
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Diverse Books and Toys: Children learn about music and discover different sounds as they fill pots with pasta to make shakers.
Indoor and Outdoor Facilities: Indoor and outdoor areas are thoroughly designed to meet the needs of the children. Children can independently access resources as they follow their own interests.
Philosophy: The curriculum is ambitious and fully embedded into the setting. Activities are child-focused and sequenced.
Activities: Children enjoy shaping activities to meet their own interests. They explore the exciting outside areas with wonder.
Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Teaching is of a high standard and staff expertly know what the children can do and what they need to do next.
Communication: Partnerships with parents are exceptionally strong. Communication is excellent, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Community Building: Parents were invited to attend online activities with their children and staff kept in regular contact with families.
Programs and Resources: Staff are highly skilled at identifying children who may need additional intervention. The designated special educational needs coordinator has an excellent overview of those children in the pre-school with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
Staff Training: Management has extensive training in promoting children's communication and language skills, which is effectively cascaded down to staff. They skilfully weave this focus throughout the provision.
Welcoming and Professional Staff: Children thrive under the care of the inspiring staff team. They are deeply engaged in their play with the abundance of stimulating activities.
Safeguarding Training: All staff have excellent knowledge of what steps to take if they had any safeguarding concerns. Leadership and management have high expectations of staff, followed up with extensive training.
Play and Learning Integration: Staff read stories to children with animation and introduce new words. Children learn to listen to instruction as the song tells them to tiptoe and march.
Transition to Primary School: Parents say they would wholeheartedly recommend the pre-school to other parents. They provide extra support for parents to help prepare their children for school.
Child Safety Management: There is a strong culture of safeguarding. Robust, safe recruitment and vetting procedures are followed to ensure staff working with children are suitable.
Children's Safety and Security: Children feel safe and secure at the pre-school. They develop exceptionally strong bonds with staff from the start.
Happiness and Settling: Children have high levels of concentration as they play and engage well with their peers.
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Richmond Pre-school CIC is a Nursery, Nursery located in Essex, East of England.
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Richmond Pre-school has been serving the community here in South Benfleet for over 50 years, providing childcare for children between 2 and 5 years of age.
In 1965, Joan Price opened a pre-school in the former Catholic Church hall, which is now a complex of apartments next to a flower shop in Belgravia.
Richmond Hall was rebuilt in 1987 and became our new home, where we stayed happily until September 1993 when we rented the demountable at the front of South Benfleet Primary School.
The building, which was constructed in the middle of the 1960s, was getting older, and a 2009 safety inspection found significant issues.
We submitted a combined application for a capital build grant with the school.
After much form filling, we were successful, being granted 750k for the new building in July 2010.
Staff members observed the demolition of the old building from the cafe across the street one Saturday morning.
When the new structure was inaugurated in January 2011 by Eileen French, chair of the South Benfleet Primary School board of governors, we relocated and resided there.
Our preschool turned 50 years old in 2015.
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In 1965, Joan Price opened a pre-school in the former Catholic Church hall, which is now a complex of apartments next to a flower shop in Belgravia.
Richmond Hall was rebuilt in 1987 and became our new home, where we stayed happily until September 1993 when we rented the demountable at the front of South Benfleet Primary School.
The building, which was constructed in the middle of the 1960s, was getting older, and a 2009 safety inspection found significant issues.
We submitted a combined application for a capital build grant with the school.
After much form filling, we were successful, being granted 750k for the new building in July 2010.
Staff members observed the demolition of the old building from the cafe across the street one Saturday morning.
When the new structure was inaugurated in January 2011 by Eileen French, chair of the South Benfleet Primary School board of governors, we relocated and resided there.
Our preschool turned 50 years old in 2015.
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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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