Glowing Star’s Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The provision requires improvement Overall, children are happy when they attend this nursery.

Staff provide a reassuring and caring approach that helps children to build secure attachments. However, the education that children receive is not consistently good. Staff do not always appropriately challenge children to help them to fully engage in their learning.

For example, children crowd around a sand activity where there are not enough resources for them. They often spend a long time waiting for their turn and become frustrated. This disrupts children's learning.

Children make choices about where they wish to play, and staff offer some interaction...s. However, staff utilise these times to supervise children, rather than using their teaching techniques to help them to learn new skills and knowledge. This results in children not making the progress that they are capable of.

Generally, children behave well and mostly listen to each other during play. However, staff are not yet consistently supporting children to learn about the expectations for behaviour. This results in children not always being aware of what is expected of them and, at times, not listening.

That said, staff and children sit and read stories together. Children recall parts of the story as they begin to develop their language and communication skills.

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

Staff do not consistently implement a challenging curriculum that supports all children to build on their prior experiences.

This results in children becoming disinterested and wandering off. Therefore, this does not support all children to reach their full potential.Staff receive supervision to discuss their key children and any professional development they require to carry out their role.

The manager, who is also the provider, has already recognised the inconsistency in the quality of teaching. She has started to implement support for staff. However, this is not embedded into practice to be effective in improving the quality of staff interactions so that all children receive good-quality experiences.

Staff are not yet consistently promoting children's understanding of acceptable behaviour. Although staff teach children the nursery rules, staff do not always reinforce these expectations. For example, when children are playing with the sand, they sometimes get a little excited and throw it.

Staff tell them to stop, but do not fully explain why this behaviour is unacceptable. This does not enable children to learn how their negative behaviour can impact on others.Staff encourage children to build on their self-care routines.

Children learn to wipe their noses when needed and wash their hands after playing. Staff teach them why it is important to wash their hands and remove the germs before eating. This helps children to learn how to keep themselves healthy and well.

Staff encourage children to build their confidence to try things for themselves. When going out into the garden, children put on their own coats. When children ask for a drink, staff help them to pour their own water from the water dispenser.

This supports children to manage their needs and build on their independence.Parents are happy with the care that their children receive. They comment that they know their child is happy and safe as the staff are so caring.

They say that staff communicate effectively about their child's learning and development. Staff work in partnership with other settings to share information about children's development. This ensures there is a smooth transition when children move on to the next stage of their learning.

Staff work with the nursery special educational needs and/or disabilities coordinator to discuss any developmental concerns. Children with identified delays have appropriate plans in place. Staff share these with parents and other professionals in a timely manner.

This ensures that children receive the support they need.Staff consider the importance of children learning about religious and cultural events. Children learn about different festivals that their friends may celebrate.

This helps children to share what makes them unique, and feel valued among their friends.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.Staff are vigilant in their assessments of the environment.

They monitor any potential risks and remove these quickly. Managers and staff have a clear understanding of the signs that a child may be at risk of harm. All staff understand how to report any concerns about a child or a person in a position of trust.

The manager follows secure recruitment procedures to ensure that all staff working with children are suitable. She carries out regular checks to ensure that staff continue to remain suitable.

What does the setting need to do to improve?

To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: nimplement current changes and embed them into practice to provide a challenging curriculum with a clear focus that helps children to remain engaged in their learning and enables them to make the best possible progress nimprove the quality of staff interactions to ensure that they have consistently high expectations for children and offer them good-quality experiences provide a consistent approach to behaviour management to ensure that children understand that their actions can affect others.