Bright Horizons Bexleyheath Day Nursery And Preschool

Bright Horizons Bexleyheath Day Nursery And Preschool 24 Brampton Road, Bexleyheath, Kent DA7 4HD

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Inspection date 20 February 2019 Previous inspection date Not applicable

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Previous inspection: Not applicable Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 1 Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1 Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1 Outcomes for children Outstanding 1

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This provision is outstanding

n Children's physical development is nurtured exceptionally well. Children thoroughly enjoy developing new skills as they master obstacle courses. Staff teach children to use their arms and to use a focal point to aid balancing. n High-quality teaching helps children to learn letter sounds and early reading. Children are highly skilled in identifying letter sounds and spelling out words on the first hearing of them. Children's literacy development is greatly prioritised. n Senior leaders drive improvement and review staff practice highly efficiently. Recent training has greatly supported staff in being highly consistent with managing children's behaviour. Staff are extremely respectful to children's individual needs and teach them to listen and respect each other's views. Children behave exceptionally well. n High-quality teaching and exceptional use of resources help to aid children's excellent progress with their learning and development.

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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 build on the excellent outside provision to extend learning even further for those who prefer to learn outside.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

Inspection activities n The inspector observed children in the main play areas and outside spaces. n The inspector spoke with senior leaders, staff and children at appropriate times during the inspection. n The inspector gathered the views of the parents. n The inspector discussed with the deputy manager how she maintains good practice within the nursery, and senior leaders were invited to carry out a joint observation. n The inspector sampled documents, including safeguarding, staff recruitment and children's files.

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is outstanding

Senior leaders are highly ambitious and are committed to excellence throughout the nursery. Staff have exceptional partnerships with others, including the designated officer of the local authority. They regularly share and attend joint meetings, working together to keep children extremely safe. Safeguarding is effective. Self-evaluation by senior leaders is extremely successfully in identifying areas for improvement. For example, they have identified that staff could make better use of outside spaces for babies. Senior leaders work extremely well with parents. They provide a lot of information to support children's move to school and how parents can support children's school readiness. This encourages excellent continuity of care for the children.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Senior leaders and staff work exceptionally well together to track children's progress. They quickly identify where children require extra support, for example mathematical development, and expertly target teaching in these areas to rapidly narrow gaps in learning. For example, babies walk around watching their shadows as they change shape and size. Staff talk with them about the size and use words such as 'bigger than' and 'smaller than' to help teach children about mathematical language. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are supported extremely well. Staff work extremely closely with other professionals to set targets for children's development. They regularly share children's rapid progress towards these goals, encouraging excellent continuity of care and learning for all children.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children are highly confident learners. Children develop excellent social skills, supporting their school readiness. They are highly independent and extremely confident in speaking out and listening to the views of others. During the inspection, older children were playing outside with the mud kitchen. A chicken joined them and children moved around to make space, so they could all play together. Children took time to explain to the chicken how they were mixing the mud to make 'cakes' and listed what ingredients they needed to other children and staff.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children are more than ready for their next stages of development and subsequent move to school. Babies expertly learn how to use various shape sorters, developing remarkable physical skills. They thoroughly enjoy using the home-made sorters to develop their excellent hand-to-eye coordination. They learn new words such as 'big', 'small', 'larger' and 'smaller' as they play. Older children are highly skilled in writing and sounding out letters. They make signs for staff to use around the nursery, labelling areas and activities. They are also remarkably skilled in sounding out letters to spell words they have just heard. This greatly encourages their literacy development.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY549410 Local authority Bexley Inspection number 10094082 Type of provision Childcare on non-domestic premises

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Registers

Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Day care type Full day care Age range of children 0 - 4 Total number of places 98 Number of children on roll 181 Name of registered person Bright Horizons Family Solutions Limited

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Date of previous inspection Not applicable Telephone number 0208 301 3527

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Bright Horizons Bexleyheath Day Nursery And Preschool re-registered in 2017. It is open Monday to Friday all year round from 7.30am to 6pm. There are 46 staff working with the children, 29 of whom are qualified from level 2 and above. The nursery provides funded early education for 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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