Bells Day Nursery

Bells Day Nursery 111 Dysart Road, Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG31 7DQ

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 4 October 2017 24 February 2017

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This inspection: Good 2

Previous inspection: Requires Improvement

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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 has made significant improvements to the nursery since the last inspection. She supports her staff well through supervision meetings. Staff discuss professional development opportunities to extend their teaching practice to help them improve outcomes for children.  Staff ensure that children's accidents are recorded and shared with parents at the end of each day. They maintain a register showing the names and number of children present to promote children's safety.  Children are happy to arrive and greet staff warmly, showing that they have close emotional attachments to staff.  Staff help children to learn about their local community. They take children for walks to the church, library, museum and park. Staff provide younger children with equipment to ensure their safety when walking in the street.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 On occasion, staff do not carefully consider how to plan activities to ensure that children are engaged and remain focused.  Although partnerships with parents are well established, staff do not consistently provide all parents with accurate information about their children's progress.  Staff do not gather enough information from parents about children's abilities when they first start.

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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

 help staff to more readily reshape activities to more effectively engage and maximise the learning of all children  provide parents with accurate information about their children's progress  gather more detailed information from parents about what children know and can do when they first start attending to help staff plan for their good progress.

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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 spoke with staff and children during the inspection.  The inspector completed a joint observation with the nursery manager.  The inspector held a meeting with the nursery manager. She looked at relevant documentation and evidence of the suitability of staff working in the nursery.  The inspector spoke to several parents during the inspection and took account of their views.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

The manager and staff share information about children's learning with schools when they move on. Staff talk to teachers about children's individual needs and share strategies to help children settle when they first start attending. This provides consistency in children's care and learning needs. Safeguarding is effective. Staff know their responsibilities to keep children safe and where to report any concerns they have regarding children's safety. Staff help children to keep themselves safe. They talk to children about how to carry scissors safely. The provider, manager and staff identify and plan improvements to the nursery. Recent changes have increased learning experiences for children outdoors.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

Staff know children well and plan for their learning. They play alongside children and provide them with an interesting range of activities that children enjoy. Staff observe and monitor children's progress to help them identify what children need to learn next. They provide information for parents to help them to support children's learning at home. For example, they encourage parents to take home books to read with their children, helping children to learn that print carries meaning. Staff weave mathematical language into children's play. Children use crayons on paper to draw circles and squares. Staff talk to children about other shapes they know, such as a triangle. Staff ask children a good range of questions, helping them to solve problems in their play. Younger children learn to care for animals. For example, staff provide opportunities for children to handle and feed the nursery's guinea pigs.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Children are confident and sociable. All children sit together at lunchtime, which helps them to make relationships. Staff support children well when they move from room to room in the nursery. Children behave very well and are encouraged by staff to care for their environment. They enjoy the task of helping to tidy away toys and know where they belong. Staff promote children's independence. They provide opportunities for them to make food to take home for their families. Children learn about foods from around the world. Staff display children's pictures and art work, showing children that they are valued and appreciated. This helps to raise their self-esteem and sense of belonging in the nursery.

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Outcomes for children are good

All children, including those in receipt of funding, make good progress in their learning. They learn key skills in readiness for their move on to school. Children develop their hand- to-eye coordination when they use tweezers to pick up lentils and small shapes. They develop their imagination when they use boxes and foiled paper to make a rocket ship. Children are confident to talk to staff about their needs and wishes and tell them they need sticky tape to make their creations. Children enjoy being physically active outdoors and explore the new toys and equipment in the garden.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY466839 Local authority Lincolnshire Inspection number 1088453 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 - 10 Total number of places 38 Number of children on roll 30 Name of registered person Ann Omotola Macaulay

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Date of previous inspection 24 February 2017 Telephone number 01476979036

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Bells Day Nursery registered in 2013. The nursery employs six members of childcare staff. Of these, one holds an appropriate early years qualification at level 6, one at level 5 and three at level 3. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday all year round, except for bank holidays and for one week in December. Sessions are from 8am until 6pm. The nursery provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-olds.

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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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