Tiny Tots Daycare

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The provision is good

Staff promote a calm and welcoming well-organised environment. They treat each child as a unique individual and embed their family backgrounds, cultures and traditions into the provision. This builds on children's confidence and self-esteem.

For example, older children demonstrate a sense of belonging and proudly show the inspector their family link books that move between the setting and home. They confidently talk about their drawings and family photographs and show an interest in the home lives of their friends. Children demonstrate they feel safe and secure, and thoroughly enjoy their time at the nursery.

Babies en...thusiastically unwrap sealed paper and excitedly show staff the objects they find inside. They laugh and giggle as they name and mimic animals sounds, which helps to build on their developing speech and language. Staff give children constant praise for their efforts and achievements.

This helps children develop positive attitudes to learning. Children develop a strong understanding of how to keep themselves safe. For instance, toddlers eagerly help staff sweep up sand, so they do not slip on the floor.

Babies develop new skills and learn about boundaries as they confidently move over climbing equipment. Staff work closely with the special educational needs coordinator to swiftly identify early development concerns. They develop strong partnerships with other professionals to ensure early intervention.

All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, make good progress.

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

The management team have made significant improvements since the last inspection. The new manager is very enthusiastic and leads her staff team well.

She speaks passionately about providing children with lifelong skills to help them reach their full potential. All staff demonstrate a strong drive to further develop the nursery and to maintain high standards.Staff say the manager offers high levels of coaching and support to help them improve their skills to benefit children.

For example, they comment that recent training has helped built on their understanding of the different ways children learn. This has had a positive impact on children's development.The manager and staff design a curriculum which is focused on children's interests and next steps in learning.

For example, babies build muscles in their hands and fingers as they enthusiastically spray and tip warm water on ice. They show high levels of curiosity as the ice melts away and they discover what is inside. Staff capture children's interests and model words, which help to build on their developing vocabulary.

However, occasionally, staff in the toddler room, lose focus on what children know and can do. They do not seize those spontaneous opportunities as children engage in their play, to build on the skills and knowledge that children have already acquired.Children behave well and develop good friendships with their peers.

These positive interactions significantly enhance children's social skills. For example, pre-school children work as a team to help find resources and materials to make potions. They listen to the ideas of their peers and experiment with different utensils as they transport water.

Parents speak positively about the relationships their children have formed with staff. They feel that their children have made good progress since starting at the setting and that there is a good two-way exchange of communication overall. However, staff do not provide all parents with precise information on their child's ongoing progress to help them support their children's learning at home.

This will promote a more united approach to helping children progress in their development.Staff promote children's early literacy skills well. For example, pre-school children excitedly hunt for bugs outside.

They match what they find to pictures on their clip board and eagerly mark these as found. Toddlers look at books of flowers and express themselves as they paint their own related pictures.Staff support children to develop good health and well-being.

For instance, all children delight in physical exercise throughout the day. They enjoy a variety of well-balanced meals and take pleasure in this social time alongside their friends. Staff talk to them about the benefits of eating healthy food and provide activities that build on children's understanding of the importance of brushing their teeth.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.All staff are knowledgeable about child protection matters and understand how to keep children safe. They receive regular training, so that they can keep their safeguarding knowledge up to date.

Staff accurately identify the possible signs that a child may be at risk of harm. They know the procedures to follow if they have concerns about a child. Staff also understand how to raise concerns regarding their colleagues' behaviour, if they need to.

The manager has a strong oversight of safeguarding issues. She knows how to work with other professionals to help keep children in their care safe.

What does the setting need to do to improve?

To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: strengthen teaching in the toddler room, to extend children's learning even more, so they make the best possible progress provide parents with more specific information about their child's next steps, so they can continue to support their child's learning at home.