Enchanted Wood Preschool Ltd- Bexley Park

Inclusion: Exceptional

Leaders have a tremendous and transformational impact on children and their families, demonstrating that inclusion underpins all that they do. Leaders provide awe-inspiring support for those children who have special educational needs and/or disabilities, and those who face significant barriers, challenges and disadvantage to their learning and development. This flawless focus on inclusive practice is highly commendable and is at the heart of everything that leaders do.

Leaders are admirable in their relentless pursuit of the highest standards for children and their families. The creation of their own bespoke training academy ensures that staff receive an immensely impressive level of continuing professional development, directly impacting on the excellent support that they offer. Children benefit from incredibly personalised adaptations, aids and adjustments, which are meticulously reviewed and assessed. This ensures that children continually access every opportunity to develop their knowledge and skills.

Leaders use every available avenue to seek additional funding to enable families to access highly specialist support, reducing barriers from the very start. For example, children and families benefit enormously from the therapeutic classroom environments and specialist support centre. Leaders' relentless focus on inclusion means that they have developed astonishingly impressive links and partnerships in the local community and far beyond to ensure they continually advocate for children and families. Parents and carers share that the support, care and guidance they receive has transformed their own and their children's lives.

Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard

Leaders ensure that the curriculum is of consistently high quality, ambitious and remarkably inclusive. Staff have a very thorough understanding of children. Assessment and tracking systems are continually refined, enabling staff to swiftly identify, reduce and remove barriers to learning. Children benefit from bespoke and personalised support plans. Staff are incredibly skilful in adapting and adjusting what they offer to meet children's specific needs. Children's understanding of the world is highly embedded through access to the on-site farm, forest school and rescue centre, providing real-life hands-on learning opportunities.

Children benefit from rich, varied and very meaningful experiences to enhance their skills, knowledge and understanding. For example, babies explore early sounds through participation in musical games. Pre-school children use interactive picture boards to build extensive sentences and stories. This supports children's vocabulary and language successfully.

High-quality interactions between adults and children are a strength. The curriculum for mathematics is very carefully sequenced, enabling children to build on what they know, extending and enhancing their understanding most effectively. Physical development is carefully planned to reflect children's age and stage of development. Babies learn to climb and balance from the start. Older children learn to use large spades and woodwork tools with skill. Children with significant barriers to their learning and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, who could not hold a pencil when they started, can now write their names in full. Children play together very well, developing firm friendships and very strong bonds.

Achievement: Exceptional

Children's achievement is excellent. As such, children seamlessly move to their next stage of education remarkably well. Children move from specialist provision to mainstream school flawlessly. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, and those facing significant barriers, challenges and disadvantage develop incredibly well, achieving significantly above age-related expectations, making rapid progress from the start. Children benefit from incredibly effective interventions that are highly focused and support them immediately. For example, children learn to communicate straightaway through an impressive array of personalised methods, such as using sign language, and visual boards to enable them to advocate for themselves and communicate their needs and wants. Babies press picture buttons to make choices about feeding, changing and sleeping. Older children develop excellent language and mathematical skills when den building together, demonstrating highly remarkable levels of patience and resilience. As such, all children are exceptionally well prepared to transition to specialist or mainstream settings and schools.

Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routines: Strong standard

Children's attitudes to learning are excellent. Leaders provide a calm, highly nurturing environment where children feel safe, secure and ready to learn. Children are extremely curious and deeply engaged due to an ambitious and highly motivating curriculum. Babies concentrate for significant amounts of time, finding different puzzle pieces with staff. Older children spend a long time learning to use different woodwork tools. They show high levels of patience and persistence as they develop their skills very well.

Staff use consistent strategies and routines to help children manage their own feelings and emotions. Older children settle immediately to take part in their daily mindfulness session. Children demonstrate high levels of kindness towards each other. For example, they pull out chairs for their friends to sit next to them. Babies smile and pat their friends, inviting them to join in their play. Children display excellent manners and are highly respectful towards each other.

Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, and those facing significant barriers, challenges and disadvantage are very well supported with clear visual structures, targeted strategies and sensitive adult support. Excellent relationships with parents and carers ensure that all children attend regularly and benefit fully from the curriculum and enrichment programme. Consequently, children are incredibly well prepared for their next stage.

Children's welfare and wellbeing: Strong standard

Leaders ensure that children's welfare and wellbeing are at the heart of what they offer. Staff ensure that they obtain incredibly comprehensive information about children, including their individual needs, interests and next steps, before children start. For example, babies and children who only started the day before settle in immediately due to the robust and bespoke settling-in processes. Staff are highly responsive to children and families' changing circumstances, offering highly tailored support with routines for sleeping, weaning and feeding.

From the very start, babies and children are encouraged to make their own choices, have their voices heard and advocate for themselves. Babies learn to make choices about sleep, changing and mealtimes, pressing picture buttons to express their desires. Older children learn how to keep themselves safe when using tools and exploring the forest school. They learn about the importance of being outside in nature on their mental health and express the importance of caring for the world around them.

Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, and those facing significant barriers, challenges, disadvantage and vulnerabilities are encouraged to manage their own feelings and emotions very well. For example, children learn highly effective strategies from incredibly kind and caring staff to support them to self-regulate. Children demonstrate their understanding and involvement when joining in with deep breathing, meditation and mindfulness sessions. This directly impacts on children's positive emotional wellbeing, self-esteem, self-belief and development of strong attachments.

Leadership and governance: Exceptional

Leaders are resolute and unwavering in their approach to excellence. They have an exemplary focus on accurately identifying areas for continued development and are incredibly ambitious for all children and their families. What they offer and strive for is unique and inspirational. Leaders are incredibly passionate and driven. Their vision is to ensure that every single child and family accesses the support, care and guidance they need to transform their lives. Their training academy is incredibly highly regarded not only locally, but across the country and beyond, and they provide extensive support for settings, schools and specialist provision to influence change. They have recently been nominated for awards for their exceptional focus on inclusive practice. Leaders recognise how their expertise can transform lives. For example, their incredible work with their local authority and other local authorities across London has shaped provision for those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, and those in social and foster care. This remarkable impact has secured transformational outcomes for children and young adults.

Leaders offer staff incredible professional development opportunities and experiences, resulting in amazing outcomes for staff's wellbeing and prospects. As such, staff are incredibly dedicated and passionate about their roles and are unanimous in their praise for leaders. They continually demonstrate a deep understanding and commitment to all children and families. Reflection, collaboration and superb teamwork are at the very heart of this focus on staff's continued development, which is praiseworthy. As such, staff continually strive to be the very best that they can be, resulting in excellent outcomes for children and families.