Plus Three Nurseries Ltd @ Martins Heron

Inspection of Plus Three Nurseries Ltd @ Martins Heron Martins Heron And The Warren Community Centre, Whitton Road, Bracknell RG12 9TZ

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Overall effectiveness Good

The quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Outstanding Personal development Good Leadership and management Good Overall effectiveness at previous inspection Not applicable

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The provision is good

Children thrive in this setting. They enjoy making magic potions with coloured waters and herbs, while learning new words and the sounds letters make. Children form strong trusting relationships with staff and their peers. Children's behaviour is exceptional at all times. They help one another, share and offer affection to each other as they play and learn. The setting has strong links with the community it serves and children learn to respect their environment. For example, they learn the importance of recycling and caring for plants. Children develop good independence skills. Staff praise them for all attempts they make to complete tasks by themselves. This helps them to develop exceptionally high levels of self-esteem and develop a wide range of skills, which will help them with future learning. There is a strong focus on language development. All staff encourage a love of books and teach children new words at every opportunity. Children have learnt to separate

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The provision is good

from parents comfortably at the door since Covid-19 restrictions. They arrive confident and happy, independently using sanitisers and enthusiastic to see their friends. Many children have attended throughout periods of lockdown and the setting offers high levels of support to their whole families.

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need to do better?

n All staff know children well. They assess what children know and can do, then carefully plan for individual children who need to catch up with areas of their development. For example, staff plan turn-taking activities and use a variety of methods to help children learn to express their emotions appropriately. n Staff create a warm and inclusive environment where children feel safe to make choices in their play and have a go at new activities. Staff have recently planned more heartbeat raising exercise. For example, children love trampolining and soft play, they share these resources exceptionally well with their friends. n Children enjoy a selection of activities in small and larger groups. For example, they go on listening walks to discuss the sounds they hear and role play having porridge, like the three bears in their story. At times, planned activities encourage larger groups. This prevents some children from being fully involved

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need to do better?

and means they wait a long time to have their turn. However, staff are deployed well and ensure children effectively continue their learning elsewhere. n Staff work closely with speech and language professionals who help identify strategies for developing children's speech and vocabulary. Staff add words during activities and repeat them, giving children plenty of time to respond and develop their communication skills. n Staff introduce the language of mathematics during all activities. For example, they count scoops of coloured water and encourage children to recognise the numbers of the hopscotch grid they line up on each day. Children consider how things get bigger as they grow, such as plants and their chrysalides, which they

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17 May 2021 watch turning into butterflies each year. n Parents and carers express their gratitude for the extra support the setting has offered them during the pandemic. At times, they would benefit from further information about the things their children are learning, to enable them to work in partnership and extend children's learning at home. However, they speak highly about the information shared on the setting's private social media page during the Covid-19 pandemic, which gave them ideas for activities. n Staff attend training opportunities which have given them confidence to support children with speech and language delays. The provider invested time to develop her skills with a mental health first-aid course. This has helped her support the whole team and families at the setting during the Covid-19 pandemic. n Additional funding is used effectively to support children with a variety of needs.

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need to do better?

A strong focus on preparing children for transition to school is considered when purchasing new resources. Individual needs such as uniforms, mathematics resources and trips to develop understanding of the world are carefully considered by leaders.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

Staff have an exceptionally good understanding of their roles and responsibilities to safeguard children. They work closely with a variety of professionals and undertake regular training to update their knowledge. All staff know the procedures to follow if they have a safeguarding concern about a member of staff or a child. The provider has robust systems for safer recruitment. She has recently revised systems for attendance monitoring and recording of absences to ensure children are safe. Staff undertake daily risk assessments to ensure the nursery is safe for children.

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should:

n develop systems even further to share information with parents and carers about the key-person role and which next steps their children are working towards n review the organisations of group times, to ensure children are not waiting for too long and can be fully involved with all activities.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY553668 Local authority Bracknell Forest Inspection number 10143652 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 Sessional day care

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inspection

Total number of places 50 Number of children on roll 21 Name of registered person Plus Three Nurseries Ltd

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reference number

Telephone number 07970 030769 Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Information about this early years setting

Plus Three Nurseries Limited @ Martins Heron registered in 2017 and is one of two nurseries run by Plus Three Nurseries Limited. It is located in Martins Heron, which is a suburb of Bracknell in Berkshire. The nursery operates on weekdays, term time only. It is open from 9.30am to 12.30pm Monday to Fridays, with an optional lunch club from 12.30pm to 1pm. Afternoon sessions run from 1pm to 3.30pm on Mondays and Tuesdays. The nursery receives funding for the provision of free early education for children aged two, three and four years. The nursery is also in receipt of early years pupil premium funding. It employs four staff, three of these hold relevant early years qualifications at level 3.

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Inspection activities

n This was the first routine inspection the provider received since the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic began. The inspector discussed the impact of the pandemic with the setting and has taken that into account in the evaluation of the setting. n The manager and the inspector completed a learning walk together, to discuss what the manager and team want children to learn. n The manager invited the inspector to evaluate a planned activity. n The nominated individual gave detailed accounts of her setting's support for children in receipt of early years pupil premium and the work done in partnership with many other agencies to meet their needs. n The inspector assessed staff's understanding of how to keep children safe. n A sample of policies, recruitment records and progress checks were reviewed with the nominated individual. n The inspector took account of the views of parents and children spoken to on the day of inspection.

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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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