Little Angels Day Nursery

Inspection of Little Angels Day Nursery 264 Washwood Heath Road, BIRMINGHAM B8 2XS

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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 Requires improvement

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The provision is good

Staff prioritise children's emotional development and sensitively help them to feel safe and secure. Children form close attachments to staff, who nurture them and help them to gain confidence in their own abilities. This helps children to become emotionally ready to learn and have a go at new experiences. For example, children learn that they can independently manage everyday tasks, such as eating, putting on coats and shoes, and safely climbing stairs. Children make good progress in their learning.

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The provision is good

Staff provide children with an exciting range of learning experiences that motivate children to play and learn. Staff consider children's interests to help engage them in their learning. For example, children who have a strong interest in cars, eagerly use their mark-making skills to paint a large model car outdoors. They happily work together and squeeze paints onto their friends' brushes. They use their words to talk about the features of the car that they paint, such as headlight, steering wheel and tyres.

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The provision is good

Children develop good attitudes to learning. They develop their thinking skills and make links with their previous experiences. For example, they decide that a courgette is a similar shape to a rolling pin and can be used to roll out dough to make it flat. They experiment with the effects created as they press different vegetables, such as broccoli, into the dough.

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need to do better?

n The manager and staff have reflected carefully on their practice and taken positive steps to successfully improve the quality of the nursery. Leaders monitor the standards of education closely. They effectively identify aspects of staff practice to develop further and support them well to help them to improve their knowledge and skills. Staff have recently extended their knowledge of working with children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. n The manager and staff have strong partnership working with parents. Parents appreciated the contact and range of activities staff continued to provide, during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. For example, the opportunity for children to see staff on a video link and listen to them reading a story. n Overall, staff support children's communication and language development well. They are swift to identify any gaps in children's learning and precisely target the

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support for children who have language delay. They have effective support in place for children who speak English as an additional language. Children learn the meaning of new words and respond to gestures, pictures and object clues. However, when children are more confident communicators, staff do not precisely focus on how they can further build on children's good communication

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need to do better?

15 September 2021 skills, to help them to make even better progress. n The manager and staff have a good understanding of how each child is progressing. They use their observations of children well to plan what they need to learn next. For example, following the COVID-19 pandemic, staff noticed that two-year-old children needed more support with their physical development and encouragement to be active. They extended the opportunities for children to use their large-muscle movements and increased occasions for them to be energetic. However, during some spontaneous learning experiences, staff do not recognise when to adapt their teaching to maximise learning opportunities to move children's learning on even further. n Staff skilfully help children learn to manage their feelings and behaviour. Children behave well. They learn to share, take turns and know what is expected from them. For example, children understand that some rules are in place to

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keep them safe. They listen attentively to staff and carefully follow instructions. Pre-school children reflect on their behaviour and talk about how they have played with their friends and shared toys with them. n Children are well prepared for the next stage of their learning, such as moving to the next room and going to school. Staff ensure they have the skills and knowledge they need to and that they are emotionally supported through the transition. Younger children enjoy spending increasing longer periods of time in the room with the older children, in preparation for the move to the pre-school.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

The manager ensures that staff clearly understand their roles and responsibilities. The manager and staff have a good understanding of how to protect children and understand the procedures to follow if they identify any concerns about a child's welfare. This includes being alert to local safeguarding concerns and the 'Prevent' duty. Staff know what to do should they have concerns about the conduct of a colleague. Leaders follow robust recruitment procedures to ensure staff suitability. They make careful risk assessments to identify potential hazards and to keep children safe. This includes checking on sleeping children regularly and supervising them when they eat.

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should:

n identify how to help children who are already confident communicators to extend their language skills even further n help staff to adapt their teaching to extend the challenge for children during spontaneous learning experiences to help them to further build on their knowledge and skills.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY463614 Local authority Birmingham Inspection number 10096727 Type of provision Childcare on non-domestic premises

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Registers

Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register Day care type Full day care

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inspection

Total number of places 120 Number of children on roll 35 Name of registered person Sanchia Enterprises Ltd

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reference number

Telephone number 0121 328 5354 Date of previous inspection 7 February 2019

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Information about this early years setting

Little Angels Day Nursery registered in 2013. The nursery employs eight members of childcare staff. Of these, six hold approved early years qualifications at level 3 and two are qualified at level 2. The nursery opens Monday to Friday from 8am until 4pm, term time only. The nursery receives funding to provide free early years education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.

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Inspection activities

n This was the first routine inspection the setting 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 their evaluation of the setting. n The manager and the inspector completed a learning walk together. The inspector observed teaching practices and considered the impact these have on children's learning. n The inspector held discussions with the leaders, staff, children and parents. n The inspector sampled some of the setting's documentation, including staff suitability and safeguarding policy and procedures.

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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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