Busy Bees Day Nursery at Farnborough QinetiQ

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The provision is good

Staff know the children well, which enables them to meet their needs.

For instance, when children become quiet due to changes in their routine, staff recognise that they are feeling unsettled and offer them emotional support. Children respond positively and welcome these interactions from staff. Additionally, staff encourage parents to communicate their child's routines at home.

This provides staff with relevant information so that they understand how to best support children, such as giving them reassurance and cuddles when they are upset. This helps children to form bonds with staff and to settle. Leaders have worked... with staff to create a calmer, quieter and more peaceful learning environment.

Children are supervised closely and staff engage well with them to support their play and exploration. Babies spend time playing with farm animals. Staff encourage them to make the animal sounds, which helps to develop their language skills.

Babies enjoy these interactions with staff and they respond confidently. When babies bang the toy animals, staff remind them to be gentle. Babies demonstrate their understanding by changing what they do and responding positively.

This enables children to learn from a young age how to show kindness in their actions and interactions with others.

What does the early years setting do well and what does it need to do better?

Since the last inspection, leaders have made significant improvements to promote staff well-being, and children's welfare and development. For instance, leaders sought staff input into designing the curriculum.

This ensures that staff's understanding of what they want children to learn is fully embedded in their daily practice. This helps staff to plan more effectively for children's development.Leaders evaluate the service they provide through a variety of ways.

This includes seeking feedback from parents, taking on board advice from the local authority and observing children's experiences at the nursery. This enables them to identify areas where they can make changes to further improve the quality of the service that they provide for children and their families.Staff report that they have noticed positive changes since the last inspection.

They confirm the increased support they receive from leaders has enabled them to strengthen their practice. This has helped to significantly improve the quality of teaching and learning programmes.The special educational needs and/or disabilities coordinator (SENDCo) has now received robust training.

This has helped her implement better support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). This enables her to respond more promptly when children are not making typical levels of progress. Additionally, she works with staff to help them plan activities to promote children's ongoing development.

Staff carefully organise the learning environment to support children to develop their independence skills. For instance, staff remind children to use tissues at the self-care stations to wipe their noses when needed. Children learn to use these stations and they enjoy completing these tasks by themselves.

This helps them to learn to take care of their own bodies and meet their own needs.Overall, staff plan activities that engage children's interest and attention. For instance, they organise adult-led group discussions to promote children's concentration and language skills.

Staff introduce the activity by explaining the rules, such as listening when their friends are talking. Staff encourage children to tell their friends about the items they have brought in from home, which promotes their speaking skills. However, sometimes, activities take too long or are too challenging for children to complete.

At these times, children lose interest and are distracted, which results in them not being able to fully participate in these activities.Staff organise activities to promote children's physical development. For instance, pre-school children spend time drawing shapes on paper and then cutting them out.

Staff help children to use the scissors safely. Children listen to the instructions given to them and this helps them to develop their small muscle skills.Leaders consider ways to promote partnerships with parents.

Information is available throughout the nursery for parents to access different types of support. This includes ideas for activities they can do at home with their child. Staff share information about children's routines and progress with parents, which helps to keep them informed about their child's development.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.There is an open and positive culture around safeguarding that puts children's interests first.

What does the setting need to do to improve?

To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: support staff to enhance the organisation and teaching of adult-led activities to ensure every child's learning needs are fully supported.