Beany's Day Nursery

Beany's Day Nursery Well Street, Biddulph, ST8 6EZ

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 18 August 2016 Not applicable

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This inspection: Good 2

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Good 2

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This inspection: Good 2

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 2

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This inspection: Good 2

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 2

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This provision is good

 The manager communicates her vision for delivering high-quality childcare provision. She has made a good start to achieving this. She uses her experience and training to help her establish policies and procedures that effectively promote children's progress and well-being.  Children arrive at the nursery eager to join in and play. They settle quickly into the activities set out for them. Children demonstrate that they feel secure when they confidently say goodbye to their parents and carers.  Staff make regular observations of children's learning. They accurately assess their progress. They identify next steps for children's learning and share them with other staff and with parents. This means that everyone works together to promote children's learning and development.  Staff work in partnership with parents to ensure that children bring sun hats and sun cream to nursery. Staff prompt children to drink more frequently when the weather is

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This provision is good

hot. They tell children why this is important and this helps them learn to keep themselves safe.  The manager demonstrates a strong commitment to working in partnership with other professionals. She participates in multi-agency meetings and conscientiously carries out the actions agreed.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 The manager's observations of staff's teaching do not focus closely enough on what they need to improve and why.  On occasions, staff ask children questions that do not promote their swiftest learning or encourage them to express their own ideas.

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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 systems for assessing the quality of teaching so that plans for staff's professional development are sharply focused and lead to excellent outcomes for children  strengthen questioning techniques to encourage children to have their own ideas and to think deeply.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of teaching during activities indoors and outdoors. She assessed the impact this has on children's learning.  The inspector completed a joint observation with the nursery manager.  The inspector held a meeting with the nursery manager. She looked at relevant documentation, such as the nursery's self-evaluation and evidence of the suitability of staff and volunteers working in the nursery.  The inspector spoke to a small selection of parents during the inspection and took account of their views.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

The manager collates and analyses information about every child's progress. She seeks out the views of parents and staff. She uses the outcomes of her evaluations to help her to plan improvements that impact positively on the quality of the provision. The manager recruits new staff and volunteers safely. She has put in place a comprehensive programme for their induction training. This helps to ensure that policies and procedures are carried out to a high standard. Staff use what they learn at training to continuously improve their practice. For example, staff attended a course about promoting children's positive behaviour and their praise for children has become more motivating. This is because they refer specifically to the aspects of behaviour that they want to encourage children to adopt. Safeguarding is effective. Staff know what they must do if they are concerned that children may be at risk of abuse or neglect.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

Staff create and use opportunities to teach children skills and knowledge. For example, children sit together to complete an alphabet jigsaw. Staff give them time to look carefully for the picture they need next. Staff point to and read the word and letter sound written on the jigsaw piece. This helps children to notice the sounds they hear and say at the beginning of familiar words. Staff help children to count and use numbers to solve problems during daily routines. They count how many children need a wrist strap to cross the car park safely. Then they remember that another child may arrive at nursery while they are outdoors and add one more strap for when they come back.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Parents comment positively about the care and attention that their children receive at the nursery. They particularly praise the vigilance of staff when their children have specific health needs that require regular monitoring. Children's independence is promoted well. Staff show children how to dispense water into their cups from the portable container and children begin to do this by themselves. Children are encouraged to express their views and listen to each other. For example, they talk together during snack and decide whether they want to play in the big garden or the little garden today. Children learn to help the local community. They dig, weed and plant flowers in garden beds outside a neighbouring business unit.

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Outcomes for children are good

All children acquire the skills, knowledge and attitudes to learning that prepare them well for starting school. Children know and can follow consistent daily routines. They can sit for increasing periods in small adult-led groups. They know the words and actions to familiar rhymes and songs. They begin to know the names for the months of the year and the days of the week. Younger children feed themselves with increasing skill using spoons. Older children cut up their food using knives and forks. Children know why they must wash their hands before they eat. They know that they must wear a hat when the weather is hot. Children remember and talk about people and events at home. They know the names of staff and children at nursery.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY495335 Local authority Staffordshire Inspection number 1032858 Type of provision Full-time provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 1 - 4 Total number of places 85 Number of children on roll 21 Name of registered person Beany's Day Nursery Ltd

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Date of previous inspection Not applicable Telephone number 07951646016

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Beany's Day Nursery was registered in 2015. The nursery employs two members of childcare staff, both of whom hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday all year round. Sessions are from 7am until 7pm. The nursery provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children. It supports children who speak English as an additional language.

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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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