Four Brooks Day Nursery - Tommies Childcare

Inspection of Four Brooks Day Nursery - Tommies Childcare Parkville Highway, Coventry, West Midlands CV6 4HZ

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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 Good

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The provision is good

Children are happy in this setting. They build strong relationships with staff. This helps children to feel safe and secure in their care. Children become autonomous learners, spending time exploring and investigating the stimulating resources. Older children confidently select the range of resources they need, to build on and extend their play experiences with their peers. For example, they create a picnic for their dolls, arranging the toys, and use real-life foods to feed them with, particularly in pre-school.

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The provision is good

Children develop their speech with increasing skill. Older children readily talk with staff and each other about what they are playing with. They make and agree plans for what will happen next during their games. Children become increasingly independent. They manage their own personal care needs with little support. They make decisions about the resources they play with and how. Children show high levels of engagement in their chosen activities.

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The provision is good

Children behave exceptionally well. They respond well to the occasional guidance from staff. Children routinely use good manners, saying 'please' and 'thank you'. Children are considerate of others and willingly take turns. Children gain the skills and understanding they need to move on to their next stages in learning and their eventual move on to school.

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need to do better?

n The manager is passionate about the work of the setting. She has designed a well-thought-through and ambitious curriculum with clear intent for children's learning at all stages. Staff have a strong understanding of the curriculum and the sequence of steps children need to learn to make progress. n Staff know the children very well. They gain useful information from parents when children first start about what children know and can do. They use this information to make effective plans to build on children's learning. Activities and experiences focus specifically on what children need to learn next. As a result, all children make good progress from their starting points. n High focus is placed on communication and language development. Managers and staff are proactive in their approach to help children to become skilled communicators. They use a range of activities, such as stories, songs and rhymes, as well as two-way conversation, to help children to make progress. For

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children in need of some additional support and those who speak English as an additional language, staff use additional speech and language programmes which help to focus their teaching and help children to quickly catch up. n Babies have fun and enjoy taking part in singing and movement sessions. They closely observe staff when they say and do the actions while they sing. Babies

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15 November 2022 eagerly follow these actions and giggle as they 'stomp' and 'clap' to the rhythm. n Children of all ages are encouraged to complete tasks for themselves. For example, almost all babies feed themselves with appropriate cutlery. Older children collect their own cutlery and serve themselves. They learn about portion control. Children dress themselves with increasing skill. They readily help to tidy toys away when it is time. This helps to develop their independence and support their positive self-esteem. n Staff provide well to facilitate imaginative play. Children show an interest in a range of play scenarios with dolls. They move on to set out blankets, plates and other items to create a picnic, using the real foods available. Staff build on this interest and provide the resources for children to make sandwiches. Children are eager to take part. They also develop their physical skills, for example by

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need to do better?

spreading butter and cutting their bread, using knives safely. n Managers provide good support for staff to continue with their professional development. They have used their effective monitoring to identify some areas for improvement within the staff team. They have plans to raise the quality of teaching to a consistently high level across all areas of the nursery. However, some of this support has not yet been implemented. n Parents speak highly of the nursery. They say their children are very happy attending. Parents are especially complimentary about the information they receive about their child's care and learning from the system they access online and the verbal feedback from staff.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

Staff understand their responsibilities to protect children from the risks of harm. They have a strong understanding of signs and symptoms that indicate a child may be at risk of harm. They know the local procedures to report concerns about a child's welfare, including how to escalate these concerns if needed. All staff know the procedures to report concerns about the conduct of a colleague and how to report these concerns to their local safeguarding partnership. Routine checks are made in the environment to ensure it is safe for children to attend. Recruitment procedures are robust. This includes the background checks that are carried out to ensure that those working with children are suitable.

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should:

n build further on the support and coaching provided to staff to increase the quality of teaching to the highest possible level across all areas of the nursery so that children gain the benefit and make the best possible progress.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY271635 Local authority Coventry Inspection number 10233634 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 84 Number of children on roll 66 Name of registered person Tommies Childcare Ltd

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reference number

Telephone number 02476 366944 Date of previous inspection 9 December 2016

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Information about this early years setting

Four Brooks Day Nursery - Tommies Childcare registered in 2006. The provider employs 16 members of childcare staff. Of these, 12 members of staff hold appropriate early years qualifications, one at level 5 and 11 at level 3. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday, from 7.30am to 5.45pm, all year round. 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 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 their evaluation of the setting. n The manager and the inspector completed a learning walk together to discuss the organisation and intent of the curriculum and how the environment is arranged. n The inspector observed the quality of teaching throughout the inspection and considered the impact this has on children's learning. A joint evaluation of the quality of teaching within an activity took place between the manager and the inspector. n The inspector spoke to parents at appropriate times and took account of their views of the setting. n The inspector spoke to children and staff at appropriate times during the inspection. n The inspector held a meeting with the leader and the manager and discussed how the setting is organised.

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n The inspector reviewed relevant documentation, including evidence of the suitability of staff working at the setting.

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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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