Busy Bees Day Nursery at Hempstead

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff make good use of information about children's progress and development. They provide activities that challenge children and help them to make good progress in their learning. • Children across all age groups are friendly, confident and secure, and staff build positive relationships with them.

• Children know the routines of the day well and confidently choose their own activities. The daily routine enables children to be independent and make choices. • Staff are very positive role models who treat children with respect and care.

They teach children to share and take turns. Children are very well behaved and develop positive social skills. •... Leaders and managers effectively monitor the educational programmes.

They ensure that staff seek specialist support for children when needed. • Although there are good supervision arrangements in place to support staff practice, a sharper focus on individual children would help improve the quality of teaching further across the setting. • Occasionally, staff focus too heavily on introducing older children to concepts and ideas and do not allow time for children to think and process their own thoughts.

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