Eccleston Park Day Nursery

Inspection of Eccleston Park Day Nursery Eccleston Park Nursery, St Helens Road, Eccleston Park, Prescot, Lancashire L34 2QE

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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 show that they feel secure and happy in the friendly nursery. They know that staff value their ideas and this helps children to become adventurous, eager learners. Two-year-old children busily wash the play cars. They excitedly discover that they can carry the water in the sponges and make it run down slopes. Children become deeply involved in their self-initiated exploration. They rapidly gain new knowledge about the properties of soapy water and sponges.

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The provision is good

Children's behaviour and self-assurance are excellent. They follow highly consistent routines that help to promote their independence superbly. Pre-school children take a clothes peg to a member of staff then leave the room to go to the toilet. They walk confidently to and from the bathroom then collect the peg and return it to the box. Children know that telling an adult where they are going helps to keep them safe. They demonstrate obvious pride in being trusted to act responsibly.

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The provision is good

Parents and carers are full of praise for the nursery team. They describe the nursery as a home from home and say that all staff greet children warmly. Parents comment that managers and staff were supportive when children returned from absences linked to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. Managers sensitively enquired into the welfare of families and helped children to settle back into nursery. Managers work in close partnership with parents. For example, they involve parents in making decisions about additional funding. This helps to ensure that the funding benefits children's well-being and progress.

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need to do better?

n The managers' clear vision for the nursery is rooted in their understanding of how adults and children learn. Managers delegate responsibility to room leaders and support them to make decisions. They encourage and help staff to try out their own ideas. They make sure that children experience a well-sequenced curriculum that consolidates and stimulates their learning. This helps to make the nursery a place where everyone learns and develops. n Managers have improved the way that staff monitor children's progress. For example, they wanted staff to spend less time writing observations of children's learning. Staff now devote even more time and attention to interacting with children. They skilfully extend children's knowledge and challenge them to think. n Overall, the supervision of staff is effective. The experienced managers often work alongside staff. They model practice and provide helpful coaching. This

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helps to make practice more consistent. However, there are occasions when managers do not make the 'success criteria' for staff's individual professional targets precise enough. Staff, sometimes, do not know exactly what to do to achieve consistently excellent practice.

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need to do better?

1 September 2021 n Staff work together in a purposeful and cooperative way. Children follow their example and show high levels of involvement during group learning times. They listen respectfully to adults and each other. They wait patiently for their turn. Children, therefore, combine excellent self-control with eager engagement. Their behaviour helps to promote their good progress really well. n Staff make learning fun. They roll cars down steep and gentle slopes. This helps two-year-old children to see and understand what the words fast and slow mean. Children race 'as fast as they can' on play vehicles and this helps to promote their strength and stamina. The enthusiastic racing deepens children's understanding of speed. They concentrate hard as they listen for the word 'go' and then skilfully avoid other drivers. The teaching is highly motivating and this helps children to develop extremely positive attitudes to learning.

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need to do better?

n The provision for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) is a strength of the nursery. The special educational needs coordinator (SENCo) incorporates advice from specialist professionals into children's individual programmes. She tells staff what children with SEND are aiming to achieve. This means that children benefit from consistent teaching that helps them to make good progress from their starting points. n Babies and younger toddlers are settled and busy. Staff skilfully provide the reassurance that encourages children to set off and explore. This helps children to become thoughtful and determined learners from the very beginning of their time at the nursery. Staff continuously talk with babies about what they are doing. This means that children hear words and phrases in a meaningful context and begin to say them. n Children of all ages encounter interesting books and hear stories that help them

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to extend their vocabulary. They go on local outings and find out some of the things that written words and numbers are used for. Children regularly take part in listening activities and pre-school children learn that words have beginning and end sounds. This helps to promote their early reading.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

Managers stay up to date with changes to local safeguarding procedures. Staff complete training that helps them to be alert for signs that children are suffering abuse or neglect. Managers help families to seek advice and support from local services. This helps everyone to promote children's welfare. Staff vigilantly follow children's individual healthcare plans. They know which children require special diets and this promotes children's health and safety well. Staff make sensible assessments of hazards to children in the nursery. For example, they teach children why only three children at a time are allowed to play on the outdoor wooden ship. Children follow this rule and begin to manage their own safety.

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should:

n sharpen the improvement targets for individual staff, so that they know precisely what they must do to raise the quality of their practice.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 2520081 Local authority St Helens Inspection number 10194625 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 56 Name of registered person Eccleston Park Day Nursery Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 01514310008 Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Information about this early years setting

Eccleston Park Day Nursery registered in 2019. The nursery employs 12 members of childcare staff. Seven members of staff hold qualifications at level 3 and three hold qualifications at level 4. One member of staff holds qualified teacher status. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday, all year round except for bank holidays, Christmas week and a week in the summer. Sessions are from 7.30am until 6pm. The nursery provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.

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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 provider and has taken that into account in her evaluation of the provider. n The manager, deputy manager and inspector carried out a learning walk. The inspector held meetings with the manager, the deputy manager and the SENCo. The manager and inspector conducted a joint observation. n Five parents and carers met with the inspector during her visit. The inspector talked and played with children. She took account of the views of parents and children. n Documents used in the nursery were sampled and discussed. The inspector checked evidence of the suitability of staff working in the nursery.

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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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