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Little Ducklings Preschool
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Little Ducklings Preschool
- Nursery
- Heanor and Loscoe DE75 7DR
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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: Outdoors, children show good balance and coordination when they use tricycles to negotiate space and when they climb on stepping stones.
Activities: Staff provide opportunities for children to learn about different cultures, such as China. Children make a pretend dragon and learn a dance to show their parents.
Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Staff encourage children to help each other. For example, when children make play dough and a child has two bowls of flour, staff ask other children what the child can do.
Communication: Parents comment positively about the support their children receive. They appreciate how the managers work tirelessly to involve other professionals to support their children's individual needs.
Programs and Resources: Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are supported well by the managers and staff.
Staff Training: The managers and staff understand their role in keeping children safe from harm and abuse.
Welcoming and Professional Staff: Staff encourage children to develop a love of books.
Safeguarding Training: The managers and staff understand their role in keeping children safe from harm and abuse.
Play and Learning Integration: Children are very sociable with their peers. When they initiate a ball game of catching and throwing, they laugh when it lands on top of a parachute.
Diversity Management: Children who speak English as an additional language use objects in their play that reflects and celebrates their culture.
Child Safety Management: Staff read stories to children to help them learn about internet safety.
Teaching Personal Safety: Children are supported by staff to understand how they can keep themselves safe. For example, they discuss road safety when walking in the street.
Happiness and Settling: When they arrive, they hang their coats and place their shoes in their allocated space.
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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.
Only when we release a new report will you get an email notice.
Read our Contacting or Working with Ofsted: privacy notice to see what we do with your personal information.
Email notifications can be set up for other website sections as well. Learn more about Ofsted email notifications.
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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 | 25th Jul 2025 - 3rd Sep 2025 |
Terms Dates 2024/25
| Terms | Dates |
|---|---|
| Autumn Term | 4th 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 - 24th Jul 2025 |
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