Little Hearts

Inspection of Little Hearts 24 Pearson Lane, BRADFORD, West Yorkshire BD9 6BE

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Overall effectiveness Outstanding

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

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The provision is outstanding

The passionate providers, manager and staff all contribute to the inspiring and highly challenging curriculum. Children make excellent progress and are more than ready for school. They enter with great enthusiasm and eagerly play within the safe and unique learning environments. Children show great interest in role play in the child-sized fitted kitchens that reflect differing family backgrounds. Staff meticulously plan for children's care, learning and interests, in excellent consultation with parents.

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The provision is outstanding

Children show exceptional confidence while investigating a wealth of materials and natural objects, using all of their senses. Older children express ideas with animation while making perfumes and potions. They use petals, food colourings and flavourings such as mint, and show deep levels of engagement while experimenting. Younger children listen with intrigue to the noise that rice makes when they shake containers. They giggle as the sand tickles their bare feet while exploring in the large, exciting indoor sandpit, designed by the nursery owners.

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The provision is outstanding

Children form exceptionally strong emotional attachments with all staff, who warmly welcome families. Children proudly show off their costumes and parents enjoy staying with their children for a wonderful story session as part of World Book Day. Staff develop extremely good relationships which help to support children's exemplary behaviour and friendships. Children express their feelings, for instance through choosing pebbles that illustrate emotions and the 'How Do You Feel Today?' chart.

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n Staff's qualifications have a positive impact on their motivating, high-quality teaching. Staff strongly promote children's communication skills. For instance, they use knowledge from their training to provide excellent narrative and introduce story spoons and singing bags. Staff make up fun songs as children play in the enthralling outdoor kitchen and explain why flowers absorb water. Boys use impressive vocabulary, such as when they say 'carnivore' and 'herbivore'. n Performance management, training and support for staff is rigorous and self- evaluation tools and improvement plans are robust. n The manager diligently monitors children's progress, achievement gaps and areas of developmental delay. This leads to comprehensive action plans and superior early support interventions. Staff celebrate each child's uniqueness. n Staff deepen children's knowledge through arranging interesting visitors and outings. Children excitedly recall their walk to the hospital where the paramedic

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showed them around an ambulance. Staff capture children's adventures in

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5 March 2020 booklets illustrated with photographs. n Children freely access outdoor play. This facilitates their learning styles and interests wonderfully, such when they find tiny wriggling worms in the intriguing bug hunt area. Children use excellent language while sharing ideas in the make- believe construction site. They manoeuvre boxes, bamboo tubes, wood and tyres and wear safety gloves while using hammers. n Parents are inspired to support children's learning. They borrow books, celebrate special events and attend courses and extensive stay-and-play sessions. Staff also provide resource packs, such as one for making musical instruments to teach rhythm and rhyme. n Children show outstanding independence. At snack time, they choose their snack items and chop up fruit. Staff enthusiastically suggest planting the apple seeds in the harvesting area. They provide nose-wiping stations with mirrors, tissues

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and pictures, to support younger children. n Staff use initial home visits to develop trusting relationships with families. Children's continued well-being is monitored closely. The manager has gained a qualification in supporting children's mental health. n Children have superior opportunities to be physically active and learn about healthy living. They have weekly football sessions and use challenging equipment, such as a rope swing and ladder, balancing planks and a small-scale climbing wall. They visit the dentist and explore a skeleton with a nurse. n Children develop a wide range of mathematical skills. Younger children work together to fill up a huge metal sieve with sand. Staff provide words such as 'heavy', and children add water to the sand to make models. Older children skilfully hang transporting resources on large wooden scales to compare the weight of objects. n Children develop excellent small-muscle strength in readiness for writing. They

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manipulate resources in the 'finger gym' area and staff encourage younger children to use their strong fingers while exploring dough. Older children show impressive literacy skills, such as using laminated word cards to make up a story. Children paint intricate pictures in the exciting 'creation station' and look at photograph booklets about the schools they are moving on to.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

Comprehensive safeguarding policies and procedures underpin staff's first-rate practice. There are rigorous systems for recruiting staff to ensure their suitability. Staff have excellent understanding of the indicators of abuse and how to report concerns. Alongside updating training they are subject to regular knowledge assessments. Staff undertake meticulous risk assessments to ensure children's safety both on and off the premises. The stringent monitoring of access to the nursery is enhanced, for example, through the camera entry system. Staff display essential safeguarding information in the entrance. Following a visit from the police, staff distributed information to promote car seat safety to parents.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY486500 Local authority Bradford Inspection number 10076424 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

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inspection

Total number of places 50 Number of children on roll 45

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Name of registered person

Manynaz Bi And Mohammed Dilpazir Partnership

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reference number

Telephone number 01274 774941 Date of previous inspection 1 April 2016

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Information about this early years setting

Little Hearts registered in 2015. The nursery employs 12 members of childcare staff. Of these, 10 members of staff hold appropriate early years qualifications, three at level 2, six at level 3 and one at level 6. The nursery opens Monday to Friday, all year round. Sessions are from 8am to 5pm. The nursery 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 indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact of this on children's learning. n The inspector spoke with staff, children and parents during the inspection. n The nursery manager and inspector completed a joint observation. n The inspector held a meeting with the nursery manager and nursery owners. She looked at various documents, including those related to the suitability and qualifications of staff, and sampled children's records of learning. n The manager shared parent questionnaires and other written views from parents, such as their feedback from stay-and-play sessions.

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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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