Honeycomb Nursery

Inspection of Honeycomb Nursery Unit 1, Olympia Industrial Estate, Coburg Road, London N22 6TZ

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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 receive a warm welcome from staff on arrival at the nursery. They happily enter into the nursery garden, where they confidently choose what they would like to play with. This demonstrates that they feel settled and secure. Children grow in confidence as they develop control of their finger muscles as they draw, paint and use brushes with water on the blackboard outdoors.

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The provision is good

Staff set up the activities based on children's interests and plan to meet their learning needs. Children are encouraged to explore the activities on offer and are motivated to make independent choices about what they want to do. For instance, younger children mix the dough and explore how the ingredients change when they add water. During story sessions, children are encouraged to predict what happens next in the story and recall new vocabulary. For example, when reading 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears', they use words such as 'hard', 'soft' and 'crack'. This encourages children to recall the story and repeat new vocabulary.

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The provision is good

Children enjoy meaningful interactions with staff and use their imagination in the role-play areas. For example, younger children pretend to make and serve tea for their friends using home utensils. Children make progress in their learning and development from their individual starting points.

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need to do better?

n Staff provide plenty of opportunities for children to develop their physical skills. Children learn to take risks safely as they take turns to jump on the trampoline. They develop their balance as they balance along beams and jump off them in the garden. Children strengthen the muscles in their hands by rolling the play dough with rolling pins and cutting pictures for their collages. This helps children to make good progress in their physical development. n The special educational needs coordinator ensures that children who need additional help are supported effectively. She works closely with parents, staff and outside professionals, such as the local authority's special needs adviser, to ensure all children, including children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), make good progress in the setting. n Staff support children who speak English as an additional language well and use

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visual aids and keywords during the day. This means that children are able to learn English words and extend their vocabulary. This helps to support children's language development. n At times, staff do not use opportunities to support children's communication and language skills. On occasion, staff do not model language effectively, and they ask too many closed questions. On these occasions, children are not supported to extend their critical thinking and communication and language skills.

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9 January 2023 n Parents speak positively about the nursery. They comment on how supportive and approachable both the manager and staff are. They share that they receive good communication from the nursery, which provides them with information about their children's learning. Parents would happily recommend the setting to others. n Staff play alongside the children and generally support them well. They comment on children's play and make suggestions to extend their play. However, at times, staff are less effective at supporting children's learning through following their interests. Staff do not always notice when children become less engaged and lose interest. This does not allow children to direct their own pace in their learning, and they do not all make the very best possible progress. n Children behave well. Staff use positive praise to build children's self-esteem. Staff model turn-taking and sharing. This helps children to develop respect for

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each other and understand what is expected of them. For example, children wait for their turn to go safely onto the trampoline. n The manager has a clear vision and uses self-evaluation well to identify areas for change and improvement. She works in partnership with outside agencies to ensure that the nursery is continuously improving and that children with SEND receive the support they need. For example, she has recently worked with the local authority to enhance the provision by developing role-play areas in the rooms to support children with their imaginative play. This has had a positive impact on the children in her setting.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

Staff understand how to protect the children in their care. They are confident in the procedures they would use to report concerns about staff or children. This helps to protect the welfare of children. Staff use risk assessments to help keep children safe when at the nursery. The manager follows effective recruitment and induction procedures to ensure that staff working with children are suitable. Ongoing training supports staff with their knowledge on safeguarding matters.

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n ensure that the curriculum for communication and language is ambitious so that staff support children to communicate their needs and further develop their communication and language skills n support staff to understand how to help children extend their play.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 2596228 Local authority Haringey Inspection number 10251401 Type of provision Childcare on non-domestic premises Registers Early Years Register Day care type Full day care

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inspection

Total number of places 44 Number of children on roll 39 Name of registered person Lummina Ltd

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reference number

Telephone number 07576920940 Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Information about this early years setting

Honeycomb Nursery registered in 2020. It is located in the Wood Green area of the London Borough of Haringey. The nursery is open Monday to Friday, from 7am to 3.30pm, term time only. There are 12 members of staff, eight of whom hold an early years qualification at level 2 or above. Two staff hold a qualification at level 6.

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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 has taken that into account in their evaluation of the provider. n The manager and the inspector completed a learning walk together to look at how the curriculum is planned to meet children's needs and development. n The inspector observed the quality of teaching during activities, indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact this has on children's learning. n The inspector talked to staff at appropriate times during the inspection and took account of their views. n The inspector looked at relevant documentation and checked evidence of the suitability of the staff working in the nursery. n The views of parents were taken into consideration by the inspector. n A meeting was held with the inspector and the manager to discuss leadership

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and management arrangements. n The special educational needs coordinator spoke to the inspector about how they support children with SEND. n The inspector carried out a joint observation with the manager.

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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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