Ladybirds Early Years Care & Education

Ladybirds Day Nursery Browns Antiques, Pilton Causeway, Barnstaple, EX32 7AA

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 5 July 2018 21 November 2016

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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 provider and managers evaluate the effectiveness of the setting and prioritise improvements to ensure good-quality outcomes for children. For example, they introduced new systems to track children's progress, which staff use well. Managers can now easily identify any gaps in learning for individuals or groups of children, which staff address through the planning process.  Children are happy, well behaved and confident. They show they feel very emotionally secure. For example, babies and toddlers build strong bonds with staff, who are caring and nurturing. Older children communicate very confidently with staff, who encourage them to make decisions for themselves.  Children make good progress, relative to their starting points, including those who have special educational needs and/or disabilities. Good partnerships with parents and with other agencies supporting children help staff to ensure that individual learning plans

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This provision is good

are clear and focused. Staff monitor these well to assess children's ongoing progress.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 Partnerships with other early years providers attended by children are inconsistent. For example, staff have little information about children's progress in some other settings, to help them provide a shared and consistent approach to planning for future learning.  Activities to develop children's knowledge and understanding of how to use technology for different purposes lack challenge for the older 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

 improve systems of sharing information with other early years settings attended by children, to ensure consistency when planning for future learning  provide more challenge for older children as they learn to use technology.

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Inspection activities

 The inspectors observed staff and children engaged in learning activities in each room and outside.  The inspectors talked to parents, children, staff, managers and the provider.  The inspectors reviewed required documentation, including safeguarding and child protection procedures. They talked to managers and staff about their safeguarding knowledge.  The lead inspector and a senior manager completed a joint observation of an activity.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

The provider has recently increased the number of staff she employs. She and her managers have focused well on team building and making sure all staff receive the support they need to develop their skills. As a result, staff are enthusiastic and committed to further improving their practice. Recent appraisals helped staff identify their training needs. Management used this to put in place individual and group training, to help further improve children's learning experiences. Safeguarding is effective. The provider and managers' introduction of a more robust induction process for new staff prioritises safeguarding and child protection. All new staff complete safeguarding training. The provider and managers give staff impromptu safeguarding quizzes, which helps them keep their child protection knowledge current. All staff are well informed about the procedures to follow to help protect children from harm.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

Staff use their good observations and assessments of children to plan age-appropriate activities that challenge them well overall. They use their good communication skills to extend children's learning effectively. For example, staff engage toddlers very well in stories. They talk about the characters and repeat words and phrases to increase children's vocabulary. Staff support babies' physical development well, encouraging them to use resources that they can push along as they develop confidence in standing and walking. Staff promote early mathematics very well, particularly with older children. For example, they encouraged children to count the bricks in the towers they built, and then calculated how many groups of 10 they could make from these.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Children enjoy being active, indoors and outside. Older children's understanding of how their bodies work is very good. For example, after playing football in the sunshine they helped themselves to water to help them cool down, and then poured drinks for staff, recognising they were hot too. Young children understand about sharing and taking turns. For example, babies and toddlers took turns to drive the cars up and down the ramps in the toy car park, developing their physical skills as they moved the vehicles.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children of all ages develop good skills that help to prepare them for their next stage in learning. They are independent. For example, babies make simple choices, such as choosing from a selection of fruit at snack time, and toddlers help to clear their cups and plates away. Older children benefit from activities that help them develop the skills they need for going to school. For example, they listen and pay attention well, and contribute to discussions confidently, such as when talking about what happened next in a story.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY498094 Local authority Devon Inspection number 1139971 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 - 8 Total number of places 100 Number of children on roll 194 Name of registered person Ladybirds Daycare Ltd

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Date of previous inspection 21 November 2016 Telephone number 01271 321333

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Ladybirds Day Nursery registered in 2016 and is one of two privately owned nurseries. It is located in the centre of Barnstaple, Devon. The nursery opens seven days a week from 6.30am to 6.30pm all year round. It receives funding to provide free early years education for children aged two, three and four years. The provider employs 26 staff who work with the children, 21 of whom hold a relevant qualification. Of these, one holds a level 5 qualification, 15 have level 3 qualifications and five have qualifications at level 2. Five staff are unqualified, although four of these are working towards professional qualifications.

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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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