Grasshoppers Nursery

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About Grasshoppers Nursery


Name Grasshoppers Nursery
Inspections
Ofsted Inspections
Address Broughton Business Park, Oliver’s Place Fulwood Park, Caxton Road, Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire
Phase Childcare on Non-Domestic Premises, Full day care
Gender Mixed
Local Authority Lancashire
Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The provision is good

Children demonstrate that they are happy and feel secure at this warm and welcoming nursery. They form close relationships with staff and develop secure friendships with their peers.

Children behave very well, especially at mealtimes. They sit together nicely in the dining area and demonstrate good manners and social skills. Children have lots of fun outside in the nursery play area.

They learn to manage risks while practising their physical skills, such as climbing and balancing on upturned crates and tyres. Staff stay close to encourage them and keep them safe. Toddlers enjoy re-enacting favourite stories, and babies... further develop their walking skills with staff, while outside in the fresh air.

Staff have high expectations for children. They support them to achieve as much as possible. This includes children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, children who speak English as an additional language, and those who receive funding.

All parents recognise the great bonds that their children have to their key people. They feel that their children are flourishing and making good progress. Staff focus their teaching on children's personal social and emotional development and speech and language, to support children's return to the setting following the COVID-19 pandemic.

As a result, children are confident in social situations and express their needs well.Staff work closely with parents to gather detailed information about children's existing skills and abilities. Changes in arrival and collection procedures means parents are not able to go into the nursery rooms.

However, staff work hard to ensure that parents are kept up to date regarding their child's learning and development. Staff successfully maintain face-to-face communication sharing and continue to use different strategies to ensure that partnerships with parents are well established.

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

Staff have high expectations for all children and provide a balanced curriculum.

They know the children well and understand the intent of the activities they provide in each room. Staff engage in meaningful conversations with children and model language very effectively. Staff read stories and sing with children and do this with confidence and enthusiasm.

Toddlers and babies thoroughly enjoy the numerous sensory and musical activities on offer. Staff confidently weave mathematical language into children's play and help them to learn to count and recognise numerals.Staff provide opportunities for developing children's literacy skills.

They help children to develop their large- and small-motor skills from an early age. This helps them to gain the strength and coordination necessary for writing. For instance, babies handle musical instruments and discover that they make a sound when they shake them.

Toddlers become proficient at using paintbrushes and other mark-making materials. Pre-school children develop good scissor and pencil control. They capably cut, pick and stick materials to their artwork to create a healthy eating plate.

Children learn the skills they need for future learning, such as independence. Staff are on hand to support younger children put on their outdoor clothing and when reaching pre-school, they can do this successfully for themselves. Children learn to manage their own personal care routines.

For example, children learn how to wash their hands correctly and follow visual routines seen throughout the nursery. At mealtimes, children enjoy healthy, nutritious snacks and meals. They make choices and decisions about what they eat, and independently pour their own drinks.

The manager reviews and develops the nursery effectively. She encourages staff to evaluate the environment in their individual rooms. This ensures that activities follow children's interests and motivates them to learn.

Staff well-being is a priority and supervision meetings are maintained. In addition, staff complete all mandatory training packages. However, further professional development is not sufficiently focused on education and early years practice, to enhance staff's knowledge and skills to improve the teaching of the curriculum to the very highest levels.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.The manager and staff team create a safe and secure environment for children. Staff demonstrate a secure understanding of safeguarding.

They know what steps to take, should they have concerns about children's welfare or the conduct of a colleague. In addition, staff have a broad understanding of other safeguarding areas, such as radicalisation and extremism. Robust recruitment arrangements ensure that staff are suitable to work with children.

Staff help children learn about keeping themselves safe. For example, children learn about road safety on outings in the community, and indoors, staff remind children to walk and not to run.

What does the setting need to do to improve?

To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: strengthen the professional development of staff that focuses on enhancing their knowledge and skills, and consistently improves the teaching of the curriculum to the very highest levels.


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