Bognor Regis Nursery School and Children's Centre

Inspection of Bognor Regis Nursery School and Children's Centre 85 Victoria Drive, Bognor Regis, West Sussex PO21 2TB

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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 Outstanding

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The provision is outstanding

The leadership team and staff put children's emotional well-being at the heart of everything they do. They establish nurturing and caring relationships with children and their families and all children demonstrate they feel valued as unique individuals. Babies and young children benefit from warm interactions and separate from their parents and carers without hesitation. They are extremely motivated and eager to engage in the wide range of stimulating learning experiences staff provide. For example, children select their favourite books and cuddle up with staff to read stories. They show high levels of perseverance as they look for props and dressing-up costumes, and retell the story in their own words. Staff know children exceptionally well. They are highly skilled and know when to stand back or offer children support.

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The provision is outstanding

Children's behaviour is exemplary. They learn to share and respect other children at a very young age. For instance, toddlers sing songs to babies. They are extremely kind to their younger peers, play games, such as peekaboo, with them and pass them resources of interest. Staff are excellent role models and use positive praise and reinforcement to help children manage their emotions and learn acceptable behaviour.

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The provision is outstanding

Staff have high expectations for every child. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those who speak English as an additional language receive extensive additional support and encouragement to enhance their learning experiences. All children make rapid progress in their learning.

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n Leaders and staff work highly effectively with parents and understand children's individual care and learning needs exceptionally well. They have an outstanding overview of the curriculum and ensure that it is tailored to each child's individual next steps and learning goals. Every opportunity is taken to stimulate children's interest and increase their knowledge. n Staff are highly skilled at supporting children's early language and communication development. They illustrate this as they seize the moment to introduce new vocabulary as children engage in water play. Children concentrate as they pour water through resources, such as colanders, and with support sing songs about the rain. Staff continually models language as children listen to the sounds the water makes as it splashes onto different surfaces. n The staff team are highly qualified and experienced. They have attended significant amounts of training to enhance all aspects of their practice and are

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encouraged to carry out their own research, which they disseminate to their colleagues. This leads to a skilful and highly organised staff team, who strive to

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21 January 2022 ensure every child can reach their full potential. n Children develop a wonderful love of books and stories. Staff display books in all areas of the nursery and have initiated strategies that give children opportunities to take home books to read with their parents and carers. This enhances children's learning exceptionally well. n Staff have excellent partnerships with parents. Although parents are not entering the nursery, due to the pandemic, staff hold daily discussions at the entrance and share extensive information, including progress summaries through an online parent app. Parents comment on the excellent learning experiences that the staff provide for their children. They say staff offer them extensive advice, support and encouragement to help them continue with children's learning at home. n Staff work exceedingly well together. The extremely organised daily routines promote children's understanding of behavioural expectations exceptionally well.

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Staff are tuned into the individual needs of each child and use an abundance of strategies, such as visual aids, to help children manage their feelings and regulate their behaviour. n Staff pay excellent attention towards supporting children's healthy development. For example, children have wonderful opportunities to explore different fruits, such as in water play. They discuss how fruit is good for their bodies and the different ways they can enjoy them, such as in drinks or as a snack. n Staff support children to develop excellent physical skills. Babies show high levels of perseverance, stretching their core muscles as they reach for objects of interest. Toddlers and young children scoop rice and sand with diverse tools and children aged under two years skilfully pour drinks and use cutlery. Children frequently spend time outside and benefit from fresh air and extensive physical exercise. They make decisions in their play, problem solve and move resources,

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such as crates and guttering to initiate their own games. Staff foster opportunities to promote children's understanding of personal safety and explain why they need to wear helmets when using tricycles, for example.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

Staff have an exceptional knowledge of how to keep children safe. They have an excellent understanding of the signs that may indicate that a child is being abused. This includes wider safeguarding issues, such as internet safety. Leaders continually test the staff's knowledge of safeguarding through scenarios and questions. Staff note any patterns in children's absence and check to make sure there are no concerns about a family's well-being. Staff constantly supervise babies and children to minimise accidents and keep them safe. There are first-class recruitment and vetting procedures in place to ensure staff's suitability.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY287796 Local authority West Sussex Inspection number 10128594 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 28 Number of children on roll 47 Name of registered person Bognor Regis Nursery School Governing Body

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reference number

Telephone number 01243 642924 Date of previous inspection 25 April 2016

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Information about this early years setting

The daycare provision at Bognor Regis Nursery School and Children's Centre registered in 2004. It opens from 8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday, for 50 weeks of the year. There are 13 members of staff, 12 of whom hold suitable early years qualifications. Of these, one member of staff has a relevant early years qualification at level 7 and one has a level 6 early years qualification. The nursery is in receipt of funding for children aged two years.

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Inspection activities

n This was the first routine inspection the setting received since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The inspector discussed the impact of the pandemic with the provider and has taken that into account in her evaluation of the setting. n A meeting was held between the inspector, the provider and the lead practitioner. n The inspector looked at a selection of documentation and checked the suitability of staff working with the children. n The inspector carried out a joint observation with the lead practitioner. n The lead practitioner and the inspector completed a learning walk together. They observed staff's teaching practice during activities and discussed the curriculum.

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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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