Brookdale Day Nursery Ltd

Brookdale Day Nursery Ltd Hala Road, Lancaster, LA1 4QJ

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 6 January 2017 19 June 2014

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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

 Managers are enthusiastic, knowledgeable and passionate. They maintain high standards of care and education for all children and work in partnership with the owners to continually improve.  Teaching is good and sometimes outstanding. Where it is outstanding staff target their teaching very precisely to children's individual and specific needs. This ensures that children make very good and sometimes outstanding progress in their learning.  Partnership working is excellent. Staff work cooperatively with parents, schools, other settings children attend, other professionals and agencies to ensure that children's needs are effectively met. Children move between learning environments seamlessly.  Staff are well qualified. They are excellent role models who have high expectations of all children and help them to understand and follow rules and routines. Children are extremely well behaved.  Children form very strong bonds with staff who they enjoy being with. Children develop

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This provision is good

confidence and independence from this safe base and feel able to make choices and lead their own learning.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 Individual targets for staff development are not focused enough on improving the already good outcomes for children.

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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

 enhance good supervision systems further and ensure that targets for staff development are closely focused on improving outcomes for children.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector had a tour of the setting.  The inspector observed children inside and outdoors and assessed the quality of teaching and learning.  The inspector spoke to the owner, manager, staff, parents and children during the inspection.  The inspector completed a joint observation with the manager.  The inspector viewed a range of documentation, including children's records, policies and procedures, risk assessments, professional development records, qualifications and suitabilty checks.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. Staff are deployed well and children are kept secure in the setting. Policies and procedures are robust, regularly reviewed and evident in practice. Risk assessments are used to reduce hazards. Staff understand their responsibility to safeguard children and respond quickly if they have concerns about children's welfare or development. They teach children to recognise dangers and to begin to assess risks for themselves. Staff use accurate assessments to track children's individual progress and meet their needs well. They quickly seek additional help if needed and close any gaps in learning through precise teaching. Staff make sure that parents know how well children are progressing and what they can do to support home learning.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

There are effective systems in place for observation, assessment and planning. Staff ensure that the learning environment provides a multitude of opportunities for children to develop skills and knowledge across all areas of learning, inside and outdoors. This helps to ignite children's imaginations and they are very keen to engage with new activities and experiences. Inside, younger children use a variety of textured paints, a range of interesting painting tools and their hands to make marks on large sheets of paper. Some sit right on it and make their marks all around. Others use precise strokes and control the tools well. Older children show an excellent understanding of instructions as they play a card game together. Staff sit alongside them and use a range of interesting words, phrases and mathematical language. This helps to extend children's understanding and vocabularies as they play. Children become confident and expressive communicators and

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Staff work very flexibly with parents when children start in the setting. They tailor settling- in systems to meet children's individual needs and help them settle well. Staff know children and their families very well and offer support, advice and help where it is needed. They make sure that parents feel welcome and encourage them to share information about children's learning at home. Children help with tasks in the setting and develop increasing independence. For example, they help to serve at mealtimes and tidy away their plates when they have finished eating. Meals are nutritious and balanced. Staff remind children to take regular drinks to remain hydrated. Children are well supported to develop enthusiasm for the outdoors. They have regular access to the garden, exploring a range of spaces and learning about the natural world around them. Staff engage well with learning opportunities in the local area.

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Outcomes for children are good

All children make very good progress. Staff sensitively support children who speak English as an additional language, helping them express themselves verbally and communicate confidently. Funding is used well to improve outcomes for children. Those who enter the setting below expected levels of development make rapid progress. Children are extremely well prepared for school or the next stage in their learning.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY356272 Local authority Lancashire Inspection number 1060965 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 0 - 4 Total number of places 39 Number of children on roll 73 Name of registered person Brookdale Day Nursery Ltd

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Date of previous inspection 19 June 2014 Telephone number 0152 464740

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Brookdale Day Nursery Ltd was registered in 1999 and is situated in Lancaster. The setting opens Monday to Friday from 7.30am until 6pm, all year round. There are currently 20 members of childcare staff. Of these, one has early years professional status, one holds an appropriate early years qualification at level 6, 16 at level 3 and two at level 2. The setting 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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