Greencoat Nursery

Inspection of Greencoat Nursery Greencoat House, 259 Stratford Road, Sparkhill, Birmingham, West Midlands B11 1QS

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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 Not applicable

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The provision is good

Children are happy and settled at the nursery. They demonstrate that they feel safe because they have a good relationship with staff who know them well. Children settle quickly when they arrive as they access toys and resources within the spacious indoor play areas. Children are busy, engaged and have fun playing games with their friends as they learn about people who help us. They role play being doctors and nurses as they bandage dolls and staff, and pretend they are giving injections or listening for a heartbeat. Children make marks for a purpose as they write prescriptions and appointments. They squirt water on model houses as they pretend to put out fires and use their creativity as they design police badges.

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The provision is good

Staff have high expectations for behaviour and children behave well as they share and take turns during play. They are given lots of praise and awards for their achievements. This supports children's emotional well-being. All children make good progress in their communication and language skills, including children who speak English as an additional language. Children develop a good understanding of the wider world. They explore the contributions of Black inventors as part of Black History Month and create poppies for Remembrance Day from red play dough. Children enjoy playing with real food, such as kidney beans, chickpeas and chapatti, in role play as they learn about food from around the world.

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need to do better?

n Teaching is good as staff plan activities around children's interests and what they want children to learn. Play areas are open plan so that children can move around and freely choose where they play. However, staff do not always consider the best time to deliver different learning experiences to ensure that children are not interrupted from activities when they are focused or concentrating. n Staff support all children's literacy skills from an early age. Children enjoy looking at books with staff and they join in familiar stories. Staff make the most of all opportunities to introduce new vocabulary. For example, they introduce the words 'stethoscope', 'prescriptions' and 'injections' as children pretend they are caring for sick people. Children learn letters and the sounds they make as they sing along to rhyming words while watching a programme. n Staff know what their key children need to learn next and help children to build

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on what they know and can do. They focus on developing children's social skills and vocabulary so they are able to have meaningful conversations, for example, about what a pharmacy sells. However, occasionally, when staff ask questions, they move on too quickly with further questions before children can consider what they want to say in response. n Children enjoy outdoor play where they explore soil in the mud kitchen and

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11 November 2021 pretend they are cooking. They fill containers with sand and talk about going to the beach. In addition, children ride wheeled toys or sit in the wooden structure to look at books. n Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are well supported in the nursery. Staff regularly review children's progress and discuss this with parents. They seek and follow advice from professionals involved in the children's care to help close any gaps in their learning and to give them the best start in life. n Partnerships with parents are good. Parents speak highly of the staff and the good feedback they get daily about their children. Staff provide parents with a good amount of information and activities to support their children's learning at home, including taking books home to read. n Leaders and managers are ambitious and improve the quality of the curriculum and provision further. All staff have good opportunities for ongoing professional

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development. This helps them to enhance their knowledge and understanding of childcare. n There is strong provision across the nursery to promote staff well-being, particularly following the COVID-19 pandemic. Leaders make themselves available to staff at any time and there is access to professional counselling and advice. In addition, staff are encouraged to share any personal concerns or worries as they complete sticky notes about how they are feeling.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

Staff have a good understanding of safeguarding. They have a good awareness of the indicators of abuse and know how to report concerns. Staff regularly attend training. In addition, management regularly question staff about aspects of safeguarding to test their knowledge and ensure their understanding of the procedures is up to date. Staff know how to recognise signs that a child could be drawn into extreme views. The staff and management team understand the role that they and the community can play in early intervention. They provide a clothes bank to support families in need and refer families to other agencies for support. Effective risk assessments are in place to ensure that the premises are safe, and staff ensure that children are supervised well.

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should:

n build on staff's questioning techniques to enable children to have more time to think and answer for themselves n reflect on the best times to deliver different learning experiences to ensure that children are not interrupted from activities when they are focused and

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY552138 Local authority Birmingham Inspection number 10174729 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 52 Number of children on roll 47 Name of registered person Greencoat Nursery CIC

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reference number

Telephone number 07525536007 Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Information about this early years setting

Greencoat Nursery registered in 2018. The nursery employs 12 members of childcare staff. All hold appropriate qualifications from level 2 to level 6. The nursery opens from 8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday, during term time only. 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 nursery received since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The inspector discussed the impact of the pandemic with the manager and has taken that into account in their evaluation of the nursery. n The manager joined the inspector on a learning walk and talked to the inspector about their curriculum and what they want children to learn. n The inspector observed the quality of education being provided indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact that this was having on children's learning. n The inspector talked to staff at appropriate times during the inspection. n The manager and the inspector carried out a joint observation of an activity. n The inspector spoke to several parents during the inspection and took account of their views. n The inspector looked at relevant documentation and reviewed 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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