Childcare@sandal

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About Childcare@sandal


Name Childcare@sandal
Inspections
Ofsted Inspections
Address 255 Barnsley Road, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 5NU
Phase Childcare on Non-Domestic Premises
Gender Mixed
Local Authority Wakefield
Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The provision requires improvement Children come into the nursery happily and are keen to join their friends. Overall, they settle well and soon develop secure bonds with their key person.

In the main, staff in the baby room are attentive to children's care needs. Babies' routines reflect those they enjoy at home. For instance, children sleep when they need to in cosy cots.

Parents are positive about the care their children receive.Children are developing secure friendships. They learn to share, take turns, and be kind.

In general, behaviour is managed well by staff. Children are beginning to understand and manage their emotions and to recognise t...he impact their behaviour has on others. Children learn to be respectful towards staff and to use good manners.

In the main, children are learning to listen and follow instructions. Pre-school children develop their independence in personal care routines, which prepares them for their eventual move to school. Children enjoy home-cooked, healthy meals prepared by the nursery cook.

They play outdoors in the fresh air every day. Toddlers enjoy playing with water. They develop their physical skills and spatial awareness while using ride-on toys such as balance bikes.

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

Staff are affectionate and caring towards children. They comfort children, such as cuddling them when they are tired. Babies who are settled and confident play quietly, exploring stacking rings, for example, or musical instruments.

When staff sit with them, they encourage children to share and take turns. This helps the youngest children to build relationships. However, good hygiene is not always promoted in the baby room.

At times, babies crawl where people have walked in outdoor shoes, and their dummies trail on the floor. In addition, staff are not always vigilant to ensure that babies do not drink from each other's water bottles.Not enough information is shared between key persons to ensure that children's learning is tailored to their individual needs when their key person is absent from the setting.

Leaders do not design a curriculum that is coherently planned and sequenced for the different age groups of children. They do not fully consider children's interests or what they already know and can do. In addition, staff do not consistently engage or challenge children.

This means children are not always stimulated and motivated to learn more. They sometimes wander, with little focus for their play. As a result, they do not make the best possible progress.

Babies and toddlers develop their communication and language skills when they sing familiar rhymes. Staff show toddlers how to use quiet and loud voices. They listen to children and talk to them about their home lives.

Experienced staff read stories that are engaging and stimulating. They pause frequently so that children can share their knowledge of what happens next. Staff also support children's early counting and show them how to use their fingers to represent numbers.

Staff promote children's independence in personal care routines, such as handwashing. Pre-school children hang up their coats and bags when they come into the setting. Staff encourage them to use a knife and fork when eating, and children clear away their plates after lunch.

These activities help to prepare children for the routines they will experience in school. Children who are settled and confident in the nursery initiate play with their friends, engage in role play and enjoy conversations together. In general, they demonstrate an age-appropriate level of personal, social, and emotional development and communication and language skills.

However, leaders do not organise all daily routines in the pre-school room well. For example, children waited too long for their lunch without any activities to engage them. Some children began to demonstrate unwanted behaviour.

Leaders have evaluated staff practice and are aware of areas that need to improve. They are working with the local authority to develop action plans to raise the quality of education. However, training, coaching and support for staff are not targeted well enough to ensure practice improves quickly, including for those staff in lead roles.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.Leaders implement recruitment procedures effectively to check that staff are suitable to work with children. Staff ensure that the premises is secure.

They supervise children adequately to keep them safe. They understand the possible risks to children in the community. Staff have a suitable knowledge of the signs that indicate a child might be at risk of harm or abuse.

They know the procedures to follow if they are concerned about a child or an adult. Staff have a suitable understanding of child protection issues, such as county lines and the impact of substance abuse.

What does the setting need to do to improve?

To meet the requirements of the early years foundation stage and Childcare Register the provider must: Due date make sure that staff promote good hygiene consistently in the baby room to minimise the spread of infection and ensure the good health of babies 26/12/2023 improve the organisation of daily routines in the pre-school room so that children are engaged and are not kept waiting too long 26/12/2023 develop a coherently planned and sequenced curriculum that helps children build on what they already know and can do, and provide play and learning opportunities that engage, challenge, and stimulate children so that they are keen and motivated to learn more 26/02/2024 ensure practitioners implement the curriculum effectively, considering children's next steps, responding to children's emerging interests, and guiding their learning and development through warm, positive interactions 26/02/2024 improve key-person arrangements so that enough information is shared between key persons to make sure that children's play and learning are tailored to their individual needs when their key person is absent from the setting 26/02/2024 use the information gathered through the evaluation of staff practice to develop a programme of training, coaching and support for all staff that is targeted to their individual needs and drives rapid improvement so that children always experience high-quality care and learning.

26/02/2024

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