Daisychains Nursery

Daisychains Nursery Chequers Road, Minster on Sea, SHEERNESS, Kent, ME12 3QU

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 9 March 2016 5 May 2010

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1

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This provision is outstanding

 Children's welfare is given excellent attention from the day they start to the day they move on to their next stage in their lives. Staff monitor children's well-being and involvement very closely at all times, to help them feel very safe and secure.  Every area of the nursery is used to maximum effect. Children learn, develop and play in a highly stimulating environment that is exceptionally well resourced, indoors and outdoors.  Staff know the children exceptionally well. They use this knowledge very effectively to adapt activities and experiences to challenge children's individual learning needs.  The recruitment and retention of staff, and monitoring of their ongoing suitability, are excellent, contributing to providing high levels of consistency of care and teaching.  The self-evaluation process is outstanding and involves all staff, parents and children. This aids staff to make well-targeted changes and improvements to meet the needs of

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This provision is outstanding

children at all times.  Staff successfully enable parents to be fully involved in their children's learning. Staff regularly share the excellent range of information about children's progress to help extend their learning at home.  Staff attend workshops, for example, on the development of children's speaking and listening skills, which helps staff to support children's communication skills very well.

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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

 build on the already excellent opportunities for young children to further experiment with different textures and materials.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector held meetings with the manager and deputy of the nursery and spoke with parents, children and staff.  The inspector observed children during activities in each play area and in the outside learning environment.  The inspector conducted a joint observation with the manager.  The inspector looked at children's records, planning documentation, policies and procedures.  The inspector took account of the nursery's self-evaluation form and improvement plan.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The leaders and managers give excellent attention to every aspect of the organisation and implementation of procedures in the nursery. This helps to ensure that staff practice is very high standard at all times. The manager is a highly experienced and positive mentor who, along with her deputy, motivates all staff extremely effectively. They complete regular and expert monitoring of staff's teaching methods. Any staff training needs are very swiftly identified and highly effective support is provided where needed. This helps to ensure that every child is encouraged appropriately and sensitively to reach their full potential. Safeguarding is effective. All staff have an excellent knowledge and understanding of their responsibility to protect children and they know how to report any concerns they have for a child in their care.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff use their excellent knowledge of each child's background and character to help identify the different ways in which they learn. Staff are very skilful in encouraging children's abilities, curiosity and imagination, so they become fully engrossed in their learning. Opportunities for young children to further explore, for example, sand and water, are slightly less evident on occasion. Exceptional partnerships with other professionals are extremely well established. These make a highly effective contribution to meeting the needs of all children. Key persons are highly effective in tracking children's individual progress. Room supervisors and managers frequently monitor progress records to help ensure that assessments of children's progress are sharply focussed and accurate.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Staff have extremely high expectations of all children. Children clearly feel extremely safe, secure and happy in the staff's care, and they form very close and meaningful relationships with them. For example, staff display children's family photographs on low wall posters in all areas and carry out home visits; this helps children to settle very quickly. Children's behaviour is excellent. Staff praise and compliment children for their achievements and children develop very high levels of self-esteem. Staff give children time to sort out any disagreements with each other. Children display particularly caring attitudes to others and know how to share and take turns.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children make exemplary progress from their starting points. They engage enthusiastically in their play and learning. Children consistently develop the skills they need for the next stage in their lives. For example, children display excellent confidence in their personal care skills and independent choices of what they do and play with.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY405580 Local authority Kent Inspection number 822536 Type of provision Full-time provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register Age range of children 0 - 4 Total number of places 62 Number of children on roll 101 Name of provider Daisychains Nursery Committee Date of previous inspection 5 May 2010 Telephone number 01795877667

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Setting details

Daisychains Nursery registered in 2009. It is a committee-run setting in Minster-on-Sea, Sheerness, Kent. The nursery is open all week, from 8am to 6pm, for 50 weeks of the year. It is closed on bank holidays and for a week at Christmas. There are 20 members of staff working directly with the children, of whom 18 are qualified to level 2, 3 and 4. There is also a qualified teacher. The nursery is in receipt of funding for the provision of free early education for children aged two, three and four years.

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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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