Busy Bees

Inspection of Busy Bees Ruswarp Village Hall, Ruswarp, Whitby YO21 1NJ

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Overall effectiveness Inadequate

The quality of education Requires improvement Behaviour and attitudes Requires improvement Personal development Inadequate Leadership and management Inadequate Overall effectiveness at previous inspection Not applicable

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The provision is inadequate

Children's safety is compromised. The manager does not follow safe recruitment procedures. For example, she has not obtained references or completed interviews for staff who work directly with children. Staff are not provided with regular opportunities for supervision. In addition, staff do not complete registers of children's daily attendance. Despite this, children happily arrive at the setting and the staff are very welcoming and friendly. Children benefit from established routines. Staff prepare the environment with accessible resources to capture their interest on arrival. Children's behaviour is consistently good. Staff use specific praise to help children know what they have done well and encourage them to manage small conflicts for themselves.

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The provision is inadequate

The quality of teaching is inconsistent. Some staff have a poor knowledge of children's current developmental stages. As a result, staff have lower expectations. On occasion, staff do not use children's interests effectively to build on their existing skills. For example, older children show they can successfully write the letters in their name but have them in the wrong order. Staff have not planned to build on writing skills, so fail to respond. In contrast, there are times when children are fully engaged in meaningful activities and show high levels of concentration.

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need to do better?

n The manager has not implemented robust procedures for the safe recruitment of staff. Some staff who work with children have not been through checks to verify their suitability. This has a significant impact on children's safety. n Staff do not accurately record children's hours of daily attendance. This has a further negative impact on children's safety. However, children enjoy using their photographs to practise self-registration. n The manager does not consistently provide all staff with regular supervision meetings to discuss any concerns or improvements to their practice. This has had an impact on teaching, and staff's areas for development are not addressed swiftly. However, staff report that they feel valued and are happy in their roles. n Staff do not have an accurate understanding of some children's stages of development. They do not gather information about all children's prior achievements from their families, when they first start. This means some

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assessments of their progress are inaccurate. n Staff do not use their observations of children effectively to build on their existing skills. For example, children's speech and language are very good. They use sentences and have clear vocabulary. However, staff have lower expectations and plan to help children put two words together. This does not help them to make further progress. n Staff enhance children's mathematical skills. They model language during play

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need to do better?

9 December 2019 and help children to recognise shapes. For example, children thoroughly enjoy creating snowmen with craft materials. They show very good levels of concentration and can recognise big and small circles. However, older children are not supported to develop their early writing skills spontaneously, despite showing interest in this. n Staff encourage children to develop an understanding of the world around them. Children enjoy playing imaginatively in the fire engine and learn about people who help us. Indoors, children reflect on the role of the 'lollipop person' and show a good awareness of road safety. n The manager and staff team are keen to drive forward with improvements and take feedback from other professionals into consideration. For example, they have recently enhanced the environment to encourage children to access the outdoor area even more and ensured that creative resources are readily

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available. This has had a positive impact on children's creativity and physical skills. n Staff promote children's good health and care needs. They promote children's self-confidence and independence. Children are keen to help prepare the healthy snacks and know to wash their hands first. They show skill using the knife and put out the numbered cards to help others know how many pieces to take. n The manager has developed good partnerships with other settings that children attend, such as the local school. Older children enjoy regular visits to the classrooms and stay for lunch. They are emotionally well-prepared for moving on. In addition, relationships with parents are positive. Parents are happy with the care their children receive.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are not effective.

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Safeguarding

Several breaches of the safeguarding and welfare requirements have a significant impact on children's safety. For example, children are in the setting for a lengthy period of time before their attendance is ticked on the chart. Actual hours of arrival and departure are not recorded, which has an impact on children's safety in the event of an emergency. Although all staff have Disclosure and Barring Service checks, the manager does not conduct interviews or gather robust information about applicants' employment history. This means staff who work with children are not suitably checked. However, staff have a secure knowledge of the procedures to follow if they have concerns about children's welfare.

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Due date

9 December 2019 develop and implement safe recruitment and vetting procedures to ensure all staff are suitable to work with children 06/01/2020

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Due date

keep an accurate record of children's daily attendance, detailing the actual time of arrival and departure 06/01/2020

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Due date

provide staff with regular and robust supervision meetings which enable them to reflect on their practice and develop their skills to work with children 06/02/2020

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improve the ways staff gather information about what children already know and can do upon entry, so they have a clear, accurate picture of children's developmental stages 06/02/2020

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use information gained through observations of children's play and learning to plan challenging and stimulating activities which build on and enhance children's existing skills 06/02/2020

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Due date

improve the quality of teaching and staff's interactions so all children are deeply engaged in purposeful experiences. 06/03/2020

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY551855 Local authority North Yorkshire Inspection number 10130883 Type of provision Childcare on non-domestic premises Registers Early Years Register Day care type Full day care Age range of children 0 to 4 Total number of places 16 Number of children on roll 21 Name of registered person Leng, Tracey Marie

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reference number

Telephone number 07879056114 Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Information about this early years setting

Busy Bees pre-school registered in 2017. The pre-school operates from Ruswarp village hall in Whitby. It opens Monday to Friday, term time only. Sessions run on Monday from 8.30am until midday, Tuesday from 8.30am until 5pm, Wednesday from 8.30am to 4.30pm, Thursday from 8.30am until 5pm, and Friday from 8.30am until 3.15pm. The pre-school employs four members of childcare staff, all of whom hold early years qualifications at level 3 and above, including the manager. Two members of staff have early years degrees. The pre-school provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.

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Inspection activities

n The inspector observed the quality of teaching during activities indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact this has on children's learning. n The manager and the inspector completed a learning walk at the beginning of the inspection. n Joint observations were completed by the manager and the inspector during planned and unplanned experiences, indoors and outdoors. n The inspector spoke to the children and staff throughout the inspection. n The inspector held a meeting with the manager of the pre-school. She looked at relevant documentation, such as the pre-school's policies and evidence of the suitability of staff working in the pre-school. n Parents provided verbal and written feedback during the inspection. The inspector took account of their views.

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Inspection activities

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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