Little Rockets Childcare - Langney

Inspection of Little Rockets Childcare - Langney Unit 31 Langney Shopping Centre, Kingfisher Drive, Eastbourne BN23 7RT

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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 Inadequate

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The provision is good

The staff team, including the managers, creates a warm, friendly atmosphere. Children play happily as they explore the resources and activities on offer. Staff plan and deliver an ambitious curriculum that is precisely targeted to reflect children's individual learning needs.

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The provision is good

Staff place a very strong focus on promoting children's emotional well-being. The sensitive support that individual children receive helps them to gain confidence and to develop their social skills. Children learn to interact positively with others and to make friendships. Throughout the nursery, they engage in animated conversation and spend much of their time laughing as they share their views and make jokes with staff. For example, children spontaneously call out their favourite colours as they bounce coloured balls on a parachute and point out that the red ball looks like a clown's nose.

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The provision is good

Children thoroughly enjoy pretend role-play games. For example, they prepare food and drinks for staff who skilfully ask questions and introduce ideas that extend children's understanding and enhance their enjoyment.

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The provision is good

Children understand the routines of the day and enjoy helping with tasks such as tidying away toys. They understand what is expected of them and behave well.

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need to do better?

n The leadership and management of the nursery is strong and effective. Staff are highly motivated and work well together. This helps to create a positive, efficient environment where children's care and learning needs are met well. Managers recognise and nurture the skills and expertise within the staff team and encourage staff to attend training to enhance and update their knowledge. n There are good arrangements to coordinate the care of children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. Staff work effectively with parents and other relevant professionals to assess and meet the needs of individual children. n Staff are very successful in their aim to promote children's communication. All children, including babies, spend their time in environments that are rich in language. Staff working with babies use animated and encouraging facial expressions. They speak to them as they play and while addressing their care

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needs, emphasising key words which babies quickly come to recognise and understand. Older children use their rapidly developing vocabularies to express themselves clearly and to ask questions to reinforce their learning. n Staff support children to make good progress in their physical development. Those working with babies know how to encourage them to reach, pull themselves up and gain their balance as they get ready for walking. Staff

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need to do better?

25 October 2023 provide older children with a range of activities to develop their strength and coordination. For example, children have great fun as they balance on coloured platforms arranged like stepping stones. They carefully negotiate the different heights and shapes and take pride in reaching the end without touching the floor. Children also enjoy playing on a large climbing platform with a slide. Staff are vigilant in their supervision of this equipment and are sometimes too quick to offer children support. Although this is intended to promote children's safety, it does not support them to test their own physical capabilities and assess risks for themselves. n Each child is assigned a key person who effectively monitors their progress and identifies what they need to learn or master next. This, along with the strong teaching, helps to ensure that all children achieve well. In other respects, the

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need to do better?

key-person system is slightly less effective. The organisation of some parts of the routine mean that children do not consistently benefit from having their needs met by their special, trusted carer. This does not fully reflect the nursery ethos of promoting children's emotional well-being, which is otherwise very well embedded. n Communication with parents is effective. Staff and parents use a secure online system to share information about children's progress. There have recently been improvements in the support for parents to extend their child's learning at home. These include a lending library for books and the introduction of resource bags to enable parents to carry out children's favourite activities.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

Managers and staff understand their responsibilities to keep children safe. They know how to identify potential indicators of abuse and know the action to take to refer any child protection concerns that arise. Staff also know the procedure to follow in the event of allegations or concerns about a colleague. Staff teach children how to keep themselves safe. For example, they set up activities to practise using a zebra crossing and build on children's interest in firefighters to focus on fire safety.

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should:

n extend further the support for older children to explore, understand and expand their physical capabilities n review and improve the key-person system to enable children, particularly the youngest, to benefit from having their care needs addressed by their trusted, special carer.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY473067 Local authority East Sussex Inspection number 10298676 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 80 Number of children on roll 102 Name of registered person Little Rockets Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 01323301220 Date of previous inspection 22 May 2023

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Information about this early years setting

Little Rockets Childcare - Langney registered in 2014 and is one of two privately run nurseries. It operates in the Langney area of Eastbourne, East Sussex. The nursery is open each weekday between 7.30am and 5.30pm, all year round. The nursery employs 17 members of staff. Of these, 15 hold appropriate early years qualifications. The nursery receives funding to provide free early education for children aged two, three and four years.

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Inspection activities

n The inspector discussed any continued impact of the pandemic with the provider and has taken that into account in their evaluation of the provider. n The manager led the inspector on a tour of the nursery and discussed the intention behind the early years curriculum. n The inspector observed the interactions of staff and children during a range of activities and assessed the quality of teaching. n The manager and the inspector conducted a joint observation. n The views of parents, staff and children were taken into consideration. n The inspector viewed a selection of relevant documentation.

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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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