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1st Steps Preschool | Ofsted Reports, Reviews (2025)
1st Steps Preschool
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1st Steps Preschool
- Nursery
- Kirklees HD4 5DR
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| The quality of education | Good |
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Overall effectiveness at previous inspection | Good |
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Indoor and Outdoor Facilities: Staff undertake robust risk assessments to promote children's health and safety.
Activities: Staff plan a wealth of activities that ignite older children's love of learning, and they create innovative resources to support children's interests.
Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children make good progress because staff have high expectations of what they can achieve.
Communication: Staff continue to exchange information verbally, electronically and through progress summaries. They share home-learning activities and information about how parents can support key foundations for future learning.
Community Building: Staff kept in close contact with families during the COVID-19 pandemic, which helped to support children's learning and well-being.
Programs and Resources: Staff swiftly identify children who are working below expectations. This leads to timely first-class support programmes and exceptional partnership working with other professionals.
Staff Training: Staff undertake regular training. Senior staff, designated to take the lead for safeguarding children, undertake advanced training.
Welcoming and Professional Staff: Children enter happily and settle quickly on arrival. They have strong emotional attachments to the caring staff, who cuddle and comfort them as and when needed.
Safeguarding Training: Staff have a strong knowledge of child protection issues. They understand how to report their concerns internally and externally and work closely with other agencies.
Play and Learning Integration: Staff continually observe and assess children's development and plan an effective curriculum, overall.
Transition to Primary School: Older children develop essential skills in readiness for school.
Diversity Management: Where language barriers exist, staff use visual aids to support children's early communication skills and understanding of daily routines.
Child Safety Management: Staff undertake robust risk assessments to promote children's health and safety. They reduce hazards to minimise accidents, closely supervise children, and ensure the premises are secure.
Children's Safety and Security: Children feel safe and secure, as do the consistent and well-organised daily routines that children are clearly familiar with.
Teaching Personal Safety: Staff share information with parents about car safety and safety in the home.
Happiness and Settling: Children enter happily and settle quickly on arrival.
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All new childcare providers will be inspected within 30 months of their registration, our goal.
Within six years of their most recent report, we will check them at least once.
We notify childcare facilities, such as nurseries, pre-schools, and playgroups, of the inspection about noon on the business day prior to it.
No later than five days before the inspection, we contact nannies and childminders.
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Within six years of their most recent report, we will check them at least once.
We notify childcare facilities, such as nurseries, pre-schools, and playgroups, of the inspection about noon on the business day prior to it.
No later than five days before the inspection, we contact nannies and childminders.
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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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