The Trees Day Care Nursery

Inspection of The Trees Day Care Nursery Quarry Road, Swindon, Wiltshire SN1 4EN

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Overall effectiveness Good

The quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Good Overall effectiveness at previous inspection Outstanding

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The provision is good

Children enjoy their time in this bright and welcoming nursery. They readily separate from their parents and are keen to explore the wide range of interesting activities and resources. Staff support the children well during their play and encourage their language development effectively. For example, staff encourage babies to repeat simple words and sounds, and they repeat back simple sentences to toddlers, showing they are understood. Staff have meaningful conversations with older children. They talk to children about people who are special to them, and how they make them feel, when children make faces with coloured stones.

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The provision is good

Children demonstrate they feel safe and secure and readily approach staff and invite them into their play. Children form good attachments with staff, who know the children's individual interests and needs well. For example, when young children return to nursery from a holiday, staff know to offer them toys they enjoy to help them settle back in. Staff plan activities based on children's interests, such as learning about planets and dinosaurs, and include lots of resources for children to explore and use imaginatively. For example, after using pipe cleaners and wooden spoons to thread through the holes in metal pots, children turn the pots over, bang them with the spoons and sing songs. Children are motivated to learn and concentrate well at their activities. They gain useful skills for their next stage in learning, including school.

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need to do better?

n Partnerships with parents are good. Parents report that they receive regular information from staff about their children's care and education. They say that staff are friendly and approachable and are always willing to talk to them and offer advice. Parents particularly appreciate the displays of their children's work and photographs of them during activities. They report this helps them talk to their children about their day and continue learning at home. n Managers meet regularly with staff and offer some coaching and training, including safeguarding and first-aid training. However, they do not make full use of these opportunities to help monitor staff's performance and identify ways to raise the quality of teaching to the highest level. n Managers reflect on the provision and identify areas for improvement, sharing these with staff and parents to seek their views. They have introduced more natural resources for the children to explore and use creatively to encourage

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their imaginations, indoors and outdoors. n Staff check the children's progress regularly and identify any areas where children need additional support. Staff work effectively with outside agencies to put in place plans and promote children's development. Children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those learning English as

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22 October 2019 an additional language, make good progress in relation to their starting points. n Children have plenty of opportunities to develop their literacy skills. Young babies enjoy listening to stories and are eager to lift the flaps to reveal the pictures. Toddlers enjoy singing songs and say they 'like nursery when the music lady comes'. They use glue sticks and pencils to strengthen their hand muscles in readiness for early writing. Pre-school children learn the initial sounds of words and experiment with sounds. n Staff are good role models to the children. Staff talk to the children and one another respectfully. They encourage the children to use their manners, for example saying 'please' and 'thank you'. Children behave well. They show kindness to their friends, for instance gently patting a younger baby when they are crying. Children play together cooperatively, for example when working

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need to do better?

together to build ramps, and learn to share the resources. They show good levels of confidence and self-esteem. n Children show a positive attitude towards their learning and show they are keen to experiment. Children build ramps to roll the balls down and find crates to collect them at the bottom. However, at times, staff step in too quickly and offer the children solutions, rather than encouraging them to test their ideas and solve problems for themselves. For example, staff move the ramps to an angle, when children have laid them flat, before children have tested them out for themselves. n Children have lots of opportunities to learn about healthy lifestyles. They enjoy regular outdoor physical play, such as riding scooters and balance bikes, climbing on equipment and the visiting 'rugby tots' sessions. Staff talk to the children as they eat their nutritious home-cooked meals, explaining the vegetables will make them 'big and strong and ready for playing outdoors'.

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need to do better?

Children develop independence skills. Young children serve their food, pour their drinks and put on their coats and boots to go outdoors, for example.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

The manager has recently updated the nursery's safeguarding policy and procedure and provided all base rooms with a copy. Staff have a suitable knowledge of child protection issues and can quickly reference the procedure to follow if concerned about a child's welfare or the conduct of a colleague. Managers follow robust recruitment procedures for all new staff to check they are suitable to work with the children. Staff follow effective risk assessments to keep children safe and secure in the nursery. They help young children learn to keep themselves safe as they follow clear instructions when walking downstairs, for example.

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should:

22 October 2019 n improve coaching and supervision of staff to focus more precisely on raising the quality of teaching to the highest level n offer children more opportunities to test their ideas and solve simple problems for themselves.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 109128 Local authority Swindon Inspection number 10124579 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 to 10 Total number of places 98 Number of children on roll 152 Name of registered person White Horse Child Care Ltd

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reference number

Telephone number 01793 480780 Date of previous inspection 25 March 2015

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Information about this early years setting

The Trees Day Care Nursery registered in 1990. It is situated in Swindon, Wiltshire. The nursery opens all year round. Sessions are from 8am to 6pm including care out of school. The nursery receives funding to provide free early education to children aged two, three and four years. The nursery employs 32 staff including a cook and a maintenance person. Of the childcare staff, 21 hold relevant qualifications at either level 2 or level 3, and two members of staff hold a qualification at level 4.

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Inspection activities

n The inspector observed staff's interactions with the children and the impact of these on children's learning and development, indoors and outdoors. n The inspector spoke to parents and took account of their views. n The inspector carried out a joint observation with the manager and discussed how she evaluated the quality of teaching. The inspector had a tour of the nursery with the manager and discussed the nursery's curriculum. n The inspector spoke to staff and children at appropriate times during the inspection. n The inspector sampled a range of documentation, including staff suitability checks, qualification and training certificates, policies and procedures and children's records.

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We carried out this inspection 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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