Flying Start Day Nursery

Flying Start Day Nursery Clifton Street, Cradley Heath, West Midlands, B64 7QH

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 9 December 2016 4 February 2013

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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

 Staff provide a good choice of activities planned around an interesting range of themes that captures children's curiosity. Consequently, children show high levels of involvement and staff help them make good progress in readiness for school.  Children are happy, confident and enjoy their learning. Staff know how their key children learn and accurately assess how to support them in making further progress.  Children follow good hygiene routines. They enjoy healthy snacks and participate in regular physical exercise which promotes their good health.  Staff quickly identify those children who require additional support in their learning and implement a focused teaching approach. Children regularly receive one-to-one care or engage in small-group work to specifically meet their individual targets for development. Staff work closely with other professionals to ensure that individual children's needs are met.

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This provision is good

 The quality of teaching is good and therefore, children are making good progress. Staff provide children with many opportunities to use their imaginations and engage in exploratory play.  Staff have an effective working partnership with parents that allows information to be shared between the home and setting and to extend learning at home.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 At times, noise levels in the room are raised and this sometimes has an impact on the younger children's listening skills.  Self-evaluation does not yet look closely enough at the impact that improvements have on children's care and 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

 consider how younger children's listening skills are consistently promoted so that they are fully engaged in all activities  strengthen self-evaluation procedures to further assess the impact that improvements have on children's learning and development.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of teaching during activities indoors and outdoors and assessed the impact this has on children's learning.  The inspector completed a joint observation of an activity with the manager.  The inspector held discussions with the management team and spoke to children and staff at appropriate times.  The inspector looked at relevant documentation, such as children's records.  The inspector spoke to parents during the inspection and took account of their views.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

Safeguarding is effective. All staff are confident in their understanding of the signs and symptoms that may give them cause for concern about a child's welfare and know the procedures to follow. Staff have completed relevant training about how to identify any children who may be at risk of being exposed to extreme ideas or behaviours. The staff benefit from regular staff meetings and receive targeted training which results in good quality teaching. The manager conducts appraisals, supervision sessions and room observations to review and monitor the quality of teaching and learning. The nursery uses robust recruitment systems to ensure staff are suitable for their roles. Plans for the future are well targeted to ensure the setting continues to meet the needs of children and families in the local community. The manager closely monitors children to ensure they make good progress in their learning.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

Children arrive happily and quickly settle into activities. Staff organise the environment well to encourage children to follow their own ideas. Children choose from an interesting range of good quality resources. Information about children's prior knowledge, skills and understanding is gathered from parents when children start at the setting. Good observation and assessment mean that staff quickly recognise when a child is not achieving as well as they might. They swiftly provide them with the support they need to build on their learning. Staff interact well with the children. During activities, staff question, show, suggest and explain ideas to enhance children's language skills and learning experiences. Planned activities enable children to learn about a wider society, which helps them to understand the needs of others.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Children have a strong bond with their key person and their self-confidence and sense of well-being are high. Partnerships with parents are good and they speak highly of the staff and the nursery. A secure settling-in process means that staff take the time to build relationships with children and get to know new families well. Physical play is promoted. Children enjoy opportunities to run, climb and balance in the well-equipped area outside. Children display positive behaviour. Staff have established routines and use consistent strategies to foster this. Young children are helped to develop valuable skills, such as how to share and take turns in activities.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children are busy and enthusiastic learners. They comfortably make choices about their play. For instance, they freely move from one activity to the next, showing good levels of confidence. Children learn to become independent. They are encouraged to take care of their own self-care needs, such as toileting and dressing themselves for outdoor play. All children, including those in receipt of additional funding, are making good progress in their learning from their starting points. Additional funding is well utilised to buy resources to give children the extra support they need. Children develop a good foundation for future learning.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY451572 Local authority Sandwell Inspection number 1066195 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 2 - 4 Total number of places 28 Number of children on roll 25 Name of registered person Murray Hall Community Trust Ltd

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Date of previous inspection 4 February 2013 Telephone number 01384569384

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Flying Start Day Nursery was registered in 2012. The nursery employs seven members of childcare staff. The staff hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday, term time only. Sessions are 8.45am until 11.45am and 12.30pm until 3.30pm. The nursery provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children. It supports children who speak English as an additional language and children who have special educational needs and disabilities.

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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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