Kindred Salisbury

Inspection of Kindred Salisbury Leehurst Swan School, 19 Campbell Road, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP1 3BQ

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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 feel secure at the nursery. They form a strong bond with their key member of staff. Babies settle quickly into the nursery and are soon confident to move away from their key person to explore their surroundings. Older children are adventurous and eager to play with the wide range of resources, which they can move and use in creative ways. For example, children work together to place planks on crates and then gain the confidence to balance on the raised walkway. Staff have high expectations for all the children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Staff create exciting environments that encourage children's curiosity. For example, children delight in discovering how pasta flows more quickly down tubes when they change the angle of the tube.

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The provision is good

Children behave very well. Staff support them sensitively as they learn to share. For example, they use a sand timer to decide when it is someone else's turn. They encourage children to help one another and to listen to each other's ideas. Children play with puppets and read books that help them to recognise and name the different emotions they experience. Children play cooperatively and make firm friendships.

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need to do better?

n Children make good progress in all areas of their development. Enthusiastic staff know the children very well. They use children's current fascinations to provide a wide range of experiences that stimulate children's curiosity and enthusiasm for learning. For example, staff create a builder's area and include photos of several types of buildings, clipboards, and tape measures to encourage children's creative play. Staff play alongside children and observe their progress so they can plan what children need to learn next. However, staff sometimes miss opportunities to challenge and extend children's mathematical understanding. n Staff interact well with the babies. For example, they sing with them to support their developing communication. Staff are caring and respectful while they address babies' needs. Staff encourage young children to move and explore, and they share in babies' delight when they walk over a low ramp. Staff provide rich

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need to do better?

experiences to support babies' early development. For example, babies explore and investigate baskets full of interesting objects. n Staff interact well overall with children in their self-chosen play. However, when staff plan adult-led activities, they do not consistently identify precisely what they want children to learn and ensure that the activity is appropriately challenging for the children taking part. For example, staff introduce unfamiliar letters to children before they have sufficiently developed their phonological awareness, such as hearing the sounds, rhythms and rhymes in words.

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25 April 2022 n Children who speak English as an additional language are supported well by staff. For instance, staff use picture cards and key words in children's home languages to help them settle. Staff support children with SEND very effectively. They collaborate closely with other professionals and parents to support children's particular areas of development. n Staff record and understand children's individual health and dietary needs. Children learn about good hygiene as they wash their hands and practise cleaning model teeth. The nursery provides healthy meals, and staff encourage the children to try new tastes. Mealtimes are calm and sociable occasions, which helps children to enjoy their food. Children are highly active and spend much of the day playing outside. Each week, they benefit from the added interest of forest-school and ballet sessions. n Managers support staff's well-being and professional development effectively.

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need to do better?

They observe staff practice and meet with them regularly to discuss performance and identify training needs, such as in supporting children's mathematical development. Managers highly value the staff team and involve them in every aspect of the continuous improvement of the setting. n Staff build strong partnerships with parents and gather information so they can provide familiar care routines for children. They strengthen relationships further by communicating in a variety of ways. Parents say they highly value the advice that staff share to help them support children's learning at home.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

Leaders follow thorough recruitment and induction procedures to ensure they employ suitable staff, who understand the responsibilities of their role. Staff undertake regular child protection training and managers routinely check their understanding, including on wider issues, such as the risk of children being drawn into extreme views and behaviours. Staff confidently describe what they must do if they think a child is at risk of harm or if they have concerns about a colleague's practice. Staff form trusting relationships with families. Consequently, parents and children are confident to share concerns or difficulties that they may be experiencing at an early stage. The supportive staff signpost parents to agencies that can help them further. Staff supervise children closely in the safe environment.

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should:

n identify precisely what children are to learn from planned activities, and ensure that staff appropriately challenge the children taking part in order to help them consolidate and build on what they already know n enhance staff's teaching skills to enable them to support children's mathematical

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY559058 Local authority Wiltshire Inspection number 10175241 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 44 Number of children on roll 79 Name of registered person Kindred Education (Wiltshire) Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 07881784535 Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Information about this early years setting

Kindred Salisbury registered under the current ownership in 2019. It is one of 28 childcare settings under the same ownership. It operates from purpose-built premises in the grounds of Leehurst Swan Independent Day School in Salisbury. The nursery is open on weekdays from 7am until 6pm for 50 weeks of the year. It employs 14 members of staff, 11 of whom hold appropriate early years qualifications. The nursery receives government funding for the provision of free early education for children aged two, three and four years.

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Inspection activities

n This was the first routine inspection the provider received since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The inspector discussed the impact of the pandemic with the provider and took that into account in their evaluation of the provider. n The manager and deputy joined the inspector on a learning walk and talked to the inspector about their curriculum and what they want the children to learn. n Children talked to the inspector and told her what they like doing at nursery. n The inspector observed the quality of education indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact this was having on children's learning. She spoke to staff at appropriate times during the inspection. n Parents shared their views of the nursery with the inspector. n The inspector conducted a joint observation of a group activity with the manager. n The management team met with the inspector to discuss how the nursery operates. They provided documentation, including documents to demonstrate

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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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