Broughton Cottage Day Nursery

Broughton Cottage Day Nursery London Road, Dunton Green, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 2TD

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 17 August 2017 17 November 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

 Children are polite and behave well. For instance, even the babies sign 'please' and 'thank you' and older children resolve minor conflicts with good levels of maturity.  Staff establish good partnerships with parents and help to keep them fully involved in their children's learning. For instance, they encourage parents to regularly share children's achievements and photographs from home.  The manager and staff evaluate their practice effectively. For example, they evaluate the day's events daily and use the feedback to support their improvement plans.  Children have good opportunities to develop their physical skills. For example, older children build obstacles to climb and balance on. Younger children use smaller equipment to explore ways to move, such as push-along toys to encourage walking.  There are good opportunities for children to develop skills that support their future learning. For example, older children recognise numbers and count as they play.

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This provision is good

 Children have good opportunities to learn about and use their senses. For example, younger children explore taste as they try interesting foods, such as lemons.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 Staff do not make the most out of opportunities to help children freely express themselves and develop their creative skills with more independence and confidence.  Staff miss some opportunities to strengthen children's understanding and respect of other people's similarities and differences in the wider world.

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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 upon the ways to support children to freely express themselves as they engage in creative experiences even further  extend children's opportunities to develop their understanding and gain respect of other people's similarities and differences in the wider world around them.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed staff interactions with children.  The inspector viewed the indoor and outdoor environments.  The inspector looked at written documentation, including a sample of policies and procedures, risk assessments and staff training records.  The inspector spoke to children, parents and staff, and took their views into consideration.  The inspector carried out a joint observation with the manager.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

The manager closely monitors the consistency of the good quality of care and teaching. For example, she regularly observes staff teach children and holds regular one-to-one meetings to discuss their performance, such as how well they engage children in the learning experiences. The manager and staff are proactive at ensuring that they keep up to date with new ideas and build on their skills and knowledge even further. For example, staff attend regular training, such as learning how to develop children's communication skills. Staff build and maintain positive partnerships with other early years professionals and share children's progress with settings that they also attend. This helps to provide children with a good consistent approach to their care and learning. Safeguarding is effective. All staff, including the manager, have a good understanding of the safeguarding procedures to follow and whom to contact to help protect children's welfare and keep

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

them safe. For example, children have an active role in practising regular fire drills and learn how to keep themselves and others safe in the event of an emergency.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

The manager and staff closely monitor children's progress. This enables them to promptly highlight any gaps in their development and provide children with good individual support to help them catch up quickly in their learning. Staff skilfully build on children's interests. For example, when children are keen to talk about volcanoes, they watch educational clips about lava and carry out interesting experiments, such as making their own 'erupting volcanoes'. Staff support children effectively to develop their communication skills. For instance, they ask older children challenging questions that encourage them to think and they use visual props to reinforce the meaning of words when they speak to babies.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Staff develop good and trusting relationships with children. They know their individual personalities and needs well. Children are happy and confident. They have a positive level of well-being and a good sense of belonging. Children gain a good understanding of the importance of healthy lifestyles. For example, they are keen to grow their own healthy foods, such as plums and apples, to prepare and serve at mealtimes.

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Outcomes for children are good

All children, including those who speak English as an additional language, make good progress in relation to their individual starting points. Children learn good skills to support their future learning. They develop good early reading and writing skills. They confidently 'write' out the nursery rules and recognise simple words. Children develop meaningful friendships and good social skills. For instance, they happily share resources and wait patiently for their turn in team games with maturity.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY242362 Local authority Kent Inspection number 1070479 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 37 Number of children on roll 59 Name of registered person Longacre Childcare Ltd

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Date of previous inspection 17 November 2014 Telephone number 01732 462339

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Broughton Cottage Day Nursery registered in 2002. It is located in Sevenoaks, Kent. The nursery is open Monday to Friday, from 8am until 6pm, all year round. The provider receives funding to provide free early education for children aged two, three and four years. The nursery employs 12 members of staff, of whom 10 hold a relevant early years qualification at level 2 or above. Of these, the manager has early years teacher status, one member of staff holds a qualification at level 4 and another holds a qualification at level 5.

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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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