Happy Days Nursery and Pre-School Cranbrook

Junior's Day Nursery Bramley House, Hartley Dyke Business Centre, Hartley Road, Cranbrook, Kent TN17 3QG

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Inspection date 12 December 2018 Previous inspection date 17 October 2014

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This inspection: Good 2

Previous inspection: Outstanding 1 Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 2 Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 2 Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 2 Outcomes for children Good 2

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This provision is good

n The new, well-qualified manager is an enthusiastic and ambitious leader. She works hard with her deputy to effectively share their high expectations with the dedicated staff team. They work well with parents to evaluate nursery practice and implement effective changes, which enhance the quality of care and early education offered. n Children form strong emotional attachments with the kind and caring staff. They thoroughly enjoy their company and are eager for them to join in their play. Parents comment that the nursery is like a 'second home' and children are 'brilliantly supported' by the staff team. n Children enjoy exploring the environment, which contains a wide range of motivating and challenging experiences. A well-considered mix of indoor and outdoor opportunities helps to ensure children are able to explore their own ideas. Children become confident and imaginative learners who make good progress in their learning.

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This provision is good

n Staff have good relationships with parents. Effective information sharing helps to support children's learning and care needs well. This ensures a consistent approach to meeting children's needs. n Staff are adapting to new daily routines. On occasions, the routine becomes slightly chaotic and children's care needs are not as effectively supported. n Staff are still adapting to a newly introduced system for assessing children's progress to further support children's development as precisely as possible.

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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

n review daily routines to ensure that all children are engaged and their care and learning needs are effectively supported at all times n support staff to refine their use of the new system of observation and assessment to enable them to plan more precisely for the next steps in children's learning.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

Inspection activities n The inspector viewed interactions between the staff and children in the inside space and outdoor environment. n The inspector viewed a range of developmental records and spoke to key staff about children's progression. n The inspector carried out a joint observation with the manager. n The inspector viewed a range of documentation, including staff records, monitoring information and policies. n This inspection was carried out following the risk assessment process.

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is good

Safeguarding is effective. The management team works well to ensure all staff have a good understanding of their role and the processes and procedures to follow to keep children safe. The management team effectively monitors staff practice. Staff are supported to reflect on and enhance their good skills. Regular meetings and training opportunities help staff to implement positive changes to their practice. The management team effectively evaluates the nursery practice. They consider what works well and target any areas for improvement. For example, the manager worked with staff to consider how children's individual needs are supported across the nursery. This led to staff attending focused training, which helped them to further develop their skills. Knowledge gained from training is cascaded to all staff to help ensure that the whole staff team tailor the support given to children. This helps to ensure all children, including

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is good

those with special educational needs and/or disabilities are given further opportunities to reach their full potential.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

Staff are skilled teachers. They have a good understanding of how children learn and of their individual abilities. Staff effectively recognise children's interests and use these to create opportunities, which enables them to develop and practise new skills. For example, babies show excitement and curiosity as they use their whole bodies to explore foam. Staff extend the babies exploration as they repeat the familiar sounds the babies make in their play. Older children confidently use their imaginations and creative skills to create clay models. They show well develop physical skills as they use tools to cut and shape the clay. Children are totally engaged and enjoy sharing their creations with staff.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Staff maintain a safe and secure environment. They are skilled at offering advice and using simple questions and techniques to help children to consider how to manage their own behaviours. For example, staff are consistently calm and respectful. They work to ensure that children develop a good understanding of the simple rules in place within the nursery. Staff work effectively to help children to learn to think about their own self-care and safety, while enabling them to take well managed risks. For example, children work well together to use long sticks to try to retrieve a hoop stuck in a tree. With staff support children take turns well. They cheer their friends as they try to reach high up into the tree. When children finish playing they comment that they have laid their long stick down 'safely'. Staff are aware of the importance of offering daily outdoor experiences and healthy snacks and meals. This helps to support children's good health.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children are keen, independent learners who practise the skills they need to support their future learning and move to school. For example, from a young age children learn to make choices in their play. They develop lifelong skills, such as aspects of self-care. For example, babies show developing skills as they start to feed themselves and drink from cups. Older children confidently use cutlery to eat at meal times.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY368488 Local authority Kent Inspection number 10087082 Type of provision Full day care

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Registers

Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register

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Day care type

Age range of children 0 - 4 Total number of places 74 Number of children on roll 155 Name of registered person Junior Childcare Limited

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Date of previous inspection 17 October 2014 Telephone number 01580 713033

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Junior's Day Nursery registered in 2008. It is located in Cranbrook, Kent. The setting employs 30 members of staff. The manager and two other staff hold early years degrees and one staff member has qualified teacher status. Sixteen other staff hold early years qualifications at level 3. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday all year round. Sessions are from 7.30am to 6pm. The nursery provides funded early education two-, three- and four-year-old children.

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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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