Kids Inc Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The provision is good

Children learn to openly talk about how they feel.

They listen to stories to help them understand their emotions, such as 'What's in My Head' and 'The Colour Monster'. Staff support children in understanding how to regulate their behaviour and provide reassurance and comfort. Children learn to share and take turns with their friends.

They build a tall tower and jump up and down with excitement, as they watch it tumble down. Children are learning to be independent. Babies use a spoon to feed themselves, while older children delight in showing how they put their coat on, using the 'upside-down' trick.

Children e...xplore a wide range of different materials and textures to develop their sensory awareness. They make cupcakes in the mud kitchen, wash dinosaurs in bubbles and look for snakes in the sand. Children develop their physical skills through a range of well-planned activities.

They lift and squeeze the sponge, watching the bubbles fall into the tray. Children fix the train track together and work out how to attach the magnetic trains. Children squeeze and roll out the play dough, to make a hat for the giraffe.

They draw pictures of farm animals using pencils, and make marks using chunky chalks.

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

Managers evaluate the service effectively. This enables them to target areas for improvement.

For example, managers monitor staff through observations of their teaching within the classroom, then provide feedback to help improve their practice.Staff are supported well. They have access to a well-being app and regular supervision meetings.

All staff complete detailed induction, which helps them to understand their role within the nursery. In addition targeted training is provided during staff meetings.Staff use children's interests and assessments of what they need to learn next, to guide the planned activities.

Although on occasions the intent for children's learning is not sequenced well enough, so the learning objective lacks clarity. Staff make good use of space to provide a variety of play experiences, both indoors and outdoors.Children with special education needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are well supported.

Staff work closely with parents and other professionals to implement individual care plans. However, on occasion, during the busier times of the day, children with SEND require more help. This reduces the staff's ability to share their attention equally with the other children.

Partnership with parents is effective. Parents comment that the staff are friendly and welcoming. Parents come into the nursery to drop and collect their children.

This enables them to see their children at play providing reassurance, particularly for new parents.Detailed handovers from staff provide parents with details of how their children have been. Staff meet with parents to share information about their child's development, and newsletters explain how parents can support their child's home learning.

Children have a healthy diet. Staff talk to them about the food they eat, helping them to identify what is healthy food and what is not. Children learn about the food that gives them energy, so they can run around outside.

The key-person system is effective. This ensures that children feel safe and secure. Children who arrive unsettled, soon settle down and engage in their play with the help of their key person.

Children's emotional health is well supported by staff to encourage them to talk about how they feel.Staff help children to learn about diversity. They celebrate a range of festivals throughout the year and use a variety of books and materials that help children understand the world in which they live.

Staff support children's language and communication well. Children sing a range of familiar songs, using simple actions. Staff use number rhymes to help children become familiar with numbers and counting, such as 'five currant buns'.

The staff complement children's communication during their play. They use signing to help children understand the meaning of words. This enables all children to fully participate.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.Staff have a secure knowledge of safeguarding procedures. They demonstrate a good understanding of how to keep children safe.

Staff handle children with care, for example, when they lift them from a sitting position. Staff supervise children well. For instance, during nappy changing they stand close to the change mat and monitor children so they cannot roll off the edge.

A buzzer entry to the premises enables the management team to monitor who is coming into the building and all visitor record their details. Recruitment procedure enables the company to check the suitability of anyone who will work with children, and carry out ongoing suitability checks.

What does the setting need to do to improve?

To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: nextend the support provided to staff caring for children with SEND to enable them to manage the needs of all children more effectively, particularly at mealtimes strengthen staff's understanding of the intent for children's learning, so the implementation of the curriculum is always successful.