Busy Bees Day Nursery at Brighton

Busy Bees Day Nursery at Brighton 44-46 Harrington Road, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 6RF

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 5 May 2016 Not applicable

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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

 The manager leads a highly skilled and dedicated team of professionals. Opportunities, such as training, are endless and the manager rigorously monitors staff practices. This strongly contributes to maintaining the highest level of purposeful experiences for children and the manager's uncompromising commitment to improving practice.  Children are learning to become extremely confident communicators. Staff provide a rich environment and this is highly focused on encouraging children to develop excellent communication and language skills.  Partnership with parents is exceptionally effective and links into all aspects of nursery life. For example, parents comment on the fact that they are respected, listened to and receive endless support from staff. This helps to ensure children's learning is extremely consistent between the nursery and home.  Staff develop exceptionally strong emotional bonds with children from the start. They

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This provision is outstanding

are especially sensitive and caring, and offer limitless support and encouragement. Staff are highly reflective and recognise the excellent outcome this has on children's confidence and overall well-being.  Children make excellent progress from their starting points. Their achievements link to the typical developmental stages for their age and often exceed planned targets. Children develop outstanding skills to support their future learning.

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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

 strengthen the high quality of professional development opportunities to help enhance staff's knowledge and practice even further.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed staff interacting with children during their own choice of play and planned activities.  The inspector viewed children's development records and discussed children's progress with key people.  The inspector carried out a joint observation with the manager.  The inspector viewed a range of documentation including staff certificates and policies.  The inspector discussed with parents aspects of the setting's practice.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. Staff have an excellent up-to-date knowledge of how to monitor and report concerns regarding children's welfare. Children are exceptionally well listened to and staff confidently recognise changes in children's well-being and behaviour. The manager uses an extremely comprehensive process to monitor and oversee the nursery procedures and staff practices and to precisely track children's progress. This helps to ensure that the quality of provision is exceptionally high and that children are given endless opportunities to make rapid progress. The manager is highly consistent at gaining the views of parents, children, staff and other professionals to inform her own evaluations. She identifies what works well and where outcomes for children and staff practice can be enhanced further.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff maintain an inspiring environment and use this to motivate children's learning and curiosity, while allowing them to play in safety. Staff use high-quality teaching skills to help ensure that children are given every opportunity to learn and develop new skills. Staff skilfully use children's interests to incorporate their next steps in learning. For example, staff use younger children's interest in trains to reinforce their awareness of mathematical ideas, such as counting and size, introduce new words and extend their communication skills. Staff use an exceptionally thorough observation and assessment process. Children's achievements are extremely well recorded and precise assessments show children's rapid progress. Staff have exemplary relationships with parents and other professionals and use these to help precisely plan for children's next steps in learning.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Staff are highly effective at promoting children's health and self-care, and at enabling children to gain an understanding of the importance of leading healthy lifestyles. For example, during physical activities staff consistently discuss the impact that exercise can have on their bodies and why water is needed to keep them healthy. Children behave exceptionally well. Staff are excellent role models and use highly effective approaches, such as gentle hands, to consistently reinforce positive behaviour. Staff help children to learn to think about their own safety, while enabling them to take well-managed risks.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children are extremely enthusiastic learners. They are developing significant life skills. For example, during a cooking activity children take turns to measure, cut and mix ingredients for cakes, while staff introduce new words and mathematical language to them. Children are highly motivated learners who actively join in an abundance of enriching activities that help to promote their readiness for school. For example, they move their crayons in rhythm to music to make marks to develop their basic writing skills.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY486757 Local authority Brighton & Hove Inspection number 1007354 Type of provision Full-time provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register Age range of children 1 - 4 Total number of places 94 Number of children on roll 100 Name of provider Busy Bees Nurseries Limited Date of previous inspection Not applicable Telephone number 01543 678530

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Setting details

Busy Bees Day Nursery at Brighton registered in 2015. The nursery is part of the Busy Bee's childcare group chain. It is open weekdays, from 8am to 6pm, all year. The nursery employs 22 members of staff. The manager holds an early years foundation degree, and 15 other staff hold relevant early years qualifications between level 2 and level 5. The setting provides 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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