Daisy & Jake Day Nursery

Daisy & Jake Day Nursery 106 Upton Road, Moreton, Wirral, CH46 0SF

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 21 November 2017 17 April 2013

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1

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This provision is outstanding

 The dedicated managers lead a highly motivated team of staff who know the children very well and expertly provide outstanding care and learning opportunities.  Staff provide an extremely stimulating, exciting and accessible play environment, indoors and outdoors. Fun activities and a superb variety of resources encourage children to be very curious, ask questions and investigate using all of their senses.  Leaders and staff have high aspirations and successfully work together to drive continual improvement. Their self-evaluation process is comprehensive and involves the entire staff group, parents and children.  Staff are well qualified and extremely skilful. Leaders provide an excellent professional development programme of tailored support and coaching to ensure high-quality teaching throughout the nursery.  Partnerships with parents are excellent. Families are fully included in children's ongoing

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This provision is outstanding

learning. Staff regularly exchange information with parents and provide educational workshops to help ensure consistency between home and nursery. Parents praise the excellent care, support and learning opportunities the staff provide.  Staff are excellent role models. Children establish exceptionally secure emotional attachments with the staff, who are warmly attentive and responsive to children's needs. The highly effective key-person system ensures that all children are emotionally well prepared to learn.  Partnerships with other professionals are highly responsive in meeting the individual needs of children, who make very rapid progress.

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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 plans to embed the highly effective monitoring systems, to enable an even deeper analysis of children's progress and outcomes.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of teaching during activities indoors and outside, 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 manager.  The inspector held a meeting with senior leaders. She looked at relevant documentation and evidence of the suitability of staff working in the nursery.  The inspector spoke with a number of parents during the inspection and took account of their views.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. Leaders ensure that staff are exceptionally well trained in understanding and implementing child protection procedures. All staff are extremely confident in identifying and supporting children who may be at risk of harm. High priority is given to helping children learn how to keep safe. For instance, children learn practical first-aid techniques and how to cross the road safely. Leaders and staff are highly reflective and strive to constantly improve the quality of the nursery. They have excellent procedures in place to monitor children's progress. Nevertheless, they plan to enhance this even further as they embed new systems and precisely analyse the links between outcomes and specific groups of children. Leaders set high standards for staff from the start. Robust recruitment and induction procedures ensure that all staff are suitable and have an extremely secure knowledge and understanding of their roles and responsibilities.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Teaching is consistently of a very high quality. Staff use precise assessments to plan exceptional experiences based on children's interests and learning needs. They actively engage in children's play and promote learning through highly positive interactions. Staff expertly provide an ongoing commentary during play activities and skilfully introduce new vocabulary. They provide a comprehensive programme of early phonics teaching. Babies and younger children enjoy extensive opportunities to use their senses to investigate and explore a wide range of sensory activities. Staff use careful questioning to help extend children's problem-solving skills. For example, children are encouraged to consider how much water to add to play cement, to stick their bricks together securely. They add water and solve the problem of what to do when the cement gets too wet. Children learn to count confidently and apply mathematical thinking to their play.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Staff very successfully nurture high levels of respect for one another and positively promote children's excellent behaviour. They allow children to make choices and highly value their opinions. Staff strongly promote an understanding of healthy lifestyles in children. They use every opportunity to teach children about the importance of healthy eating and good hygiene. Staff enthusiastically encourage children to be active through daily dance activities and outdoor play, and then help children to feel and recognise their raised heart rate after exercise.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children thrive in this outstanding nursery. They demonstrate extremely high levels of confidence and independence. For instance, at mealtimes, older children have responsibility for setting the tables and children enjoy serving their own food. Children make excellent progress. They listen carefully, are engaged and highly motivated to learn. Staff prepare children exceptionally well for all transitions and their eventual move on to school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY373423 Local authority Wirral Inspection number 1065172 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 102 Number of children on roll 157 Name of registered person Daisy and Jake Day Nursery Limited

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Date of previous inspection 17 April 2013 Telephone number 01516 771008

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Daisy & Jake Day Nursery registered in 2008. It is situated in the Moreton area of the Wirral. The nursery employs 27 members of childcare staff. Of these, 26 hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 2 and above, including one with early years professional status, two with level 5 and one who holds an early years degree. The nursery opens Monday to Friday, all year round, with the exception of bank holidays. Sessions are from 7.30am to 6pm. The nursery provides funded early education for two-, three- and four- year-old children. It supports children who have special educational needs and/or 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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