Barnies Day Nursery

Barnies Day Nursery Bell 5, The Hop Farm Country Park, Beltring, Paddock Wood, Kent, TN12 6PY

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 18 May 2015 2 February 2011

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Previous inspection: Good 2 How well the early years provision meets the needs of the range of children who attend Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

The contribution of the early years provision to the well-being of children Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

The effectiveness of the leadership and management of the early years provision Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

The setting meets legal requirements for early years settings

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This provision is outstanding

 Excellent teaching and highly effective team work result in children gaining the highest quality care and education. As a result, all children progress well and most make outstanding progress from their starting points.  Children receive exceptional emotional support as staff take time and care to fully understand their individual personalities and preferences.  Targeted work to strengthen partnerships with parents has been extremely successful. Children gain huge benefit from observing the friendly, positive interaction between their parents and their trusted carers. Parents highly praise the service they receive.  Tremendous thought and sensitivity goes into the management of children's behaviour. As a result, most children are extremely polite, confident and sociable, and all children receive excellent, individualised support.  The leadership of the nursery is exceptionally strong. All staff in management or

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This provision is outstanding

advisory roles provide support and mentoring for staff. This promotes their professional development and continually raises the quality of teaching.  Highly effective self-evaluation takes into account the views of staff, parents and children. This enables managers and staff to plan ongoing improvements that are specifically aimed at reflecting the needs of the children and their families.  Excellent partnerships working with other professionals, such as health specialists and teachers, help to ensure that children with additional health, educational or language needs receive the support they need.  Children who attend the out-of-school element of the service enjoy a wealth of creative, educational and physical activities.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

To further improve the quality of the early years provision the provider should:

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

 extend opportunities to celebrate children's own ideas and artistic creations in the environment to further promote their very high levels of self-esteem.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector viewed all areas of the nursery.  The inspector spoke with staff, parents and children at appropriate times during the inspection.  The inspector observed the interactions of staff and children during a range of activities.  The inspector undertook a joint observation with the area manager and a joint observation with the training coordinator.  The inspector checked a range of documentation including children's progress records and a selection of policies and certificates.

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who attend. This is outstanding

The quality of teaching is consistently excellent and staff communicate with each other easily and effectively. This creates a lovely, relaxed atmosphere where the individual learning needs of each child are fully understood by all staff. Children freely explore, experiment and discover. Staff always make time to sit and speak with children. They model excellent conversational skills, listening with genuine interest to what children say and extending their language through skilful questioning. Children are enthusiastic, independent learners, preparing them exceptionally well for school. Children express themselves through imaginative play; for example, some choose to spend their day in dressing-up clothes. Children create highly individual and expressive artwork using a vast array of craft materials. Staff enthusiastically praise and encourage children's own ideas, but display boards generally feature work produced during adult-planned activities.

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outstanding

Children develop wonderful self-esteem and confidence as a result of the individual care and attention they receive. They form trusting and close relationships with all staff, frequently approaching them to show their achievements, share their ideas or just to play. Key-person arrangements are extraordinarily effective in promoting children's well-being. Key persons are highly in-tune to the needs of the children in their group. They know what is likely to create anxiety or unsettle each child. They make sure they are available when they predict individual children are likely to need additional attention. Children understand the importance of adopting healthy lifestyles. They take part in activities and ongoing discussions to learn how to create a balanced diet and to recognise what food should be an occasional treat. Staff provide challenging physical activities that enable children to test out their own capabilities and explore carefully managed risk taking.

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provision is outstanding

All staff fully understand their responsibilities to promote children's learning, development, safety and well-being, and do this exceptionally well. Safeguarding arrangements are robust and all staff are familiar with the procedures to follow should they have concerns about the welfare of any child. Those in management roles show a great deal of respect for the unique attributes that each member of staff brings to the nursery. They make excellent use of the existing training and knowledge within the team to provide the best possible care and teaching. Staff receive superb support for their professional development, including mentoring from a senior colleague with specific responsibilities for training. This, along with highly effective self-evaluation, means that the quality of the service continually improves and evolves to reflect the needs of children and their families.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 127004 Local authority Kent Inspection number 840596 Type of provision Full-time provision Registration category Childcare - Non-Domestic Age range of children 0 - 8 Total number of places 50 Number of children on roll 59 Name of provider Ann Windsor Date of previous inspection 2 February 2011 Telephone number 01622 872788

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Setting details

Barnies Day Nursery and Out of School Club registered in 1999. It is situated in Paddock Wood, Kent. It opens Monday to Friday from 8am to 6pm all year round and receives funding to provide free early education to children aged two, three and four. There are 10 staff who regularly work in the nursery. Of these, three hold Early Years Professional Status and the remaining seven hold relevant qualifications at Level 2 or Level 3.

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Setting details

This inspection was carried out by Ofsted under sections 49 and 50 of the Childcare Act 2006 on the quality and standards of provision that is registered on the Early Years Register. The registered person must ensure that this provision complies with the statutory framework for children’s learning, development and care, known as the Early Years Foundation Stage.

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Setting details

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Setting details

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Setting details

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