Sunbeams Day Nursery

Inspection of Sunbeams Day Nursery Hawkers Hill, Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire GL17 0BS

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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 develop well in this friendly, fun nursery. The manager, who is the owner, and her team know what they want children to learn and how they plan to teach. Children enjoy a wide range of experiences indoors and out, which help develop their skills and abilities. Staff have close relationships with children and toddlers and are attentive to their individual needs. The flexible routine helps children to know what happens next. Staff are consistent and have clear expectations for children. They set realistic and achievable boundaries, creating a secure atmosphere where children behave well.

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The provision is good

There is a clear focus on language for speaking and developing children's confidence. All staff get down to children's eye level and engage in active conversations about what they are doing and how else they might try things. Children develop their imagination during play and link it to real-life experiences. Staff encourage cooperative role play. For example, children use 'money' and tills in the outside 'post office'. They talk together about posting letters to a birthday party, who they want to invite and what will happen at the party. Children show excitement as they discuss with staff how to build and topple large towers made with the crates in the garden. Staff regularly praise, remind and thank children for having a go and doing their best. This nurtures children's self-esteem.

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The provision is good

Children are learning to be patient and listen as staff explain and give instructions. Staff model and provide many opportunities for children to take it in turns to wash their hands, line up and be next. This helps support children's self-control.

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need to do better?

n Staff understand that toddlers enjoy investigating and are beginning to develop their independence. They enable them to explore and are on hand for reassuring cuddles. This helps young children to feel emotionally and physically safe as they play. Toddlers gain confidence climbing on the slide and crawling through the tunnel. n Children like the focus on nursery rhymes. They experience the patterns and sequence as they begin to learn simple mathematical skills when they recite 'Hickory dickory dock'. They recognise numbers on the clock and are thinking about time and how long things take. Staff support the theme of 'more' and the 'same' throughout daily activities, modelling and teaching. This helps promote children's mathematical understanding and language. n Staff are a good team. They know their expertise, interests and strengths to promote consistent practice. They feel well supported by the manager, who

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need to do better?

takes their well-being and workload into account. Staff have access to a range of training opportunities and ad hoc meetings to keep up to date. While staff have

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need to do better?

14 November 2023 individual discussions with the manager, she does not make the most of supervision sessions to monitor staff's professional practice more closely to develop the quality of provision for children even further. n Relationships with parents are effective. Parents speak very highly of the support, guidance and communication they have with the nursery team. They say staff are approachable and nothing is too much trouble. Parents know about their child's learning and development through regular updates on the online system the nursery uses. They say their children are much more sociable since coming to nursery. n Staff use children's interests to focus and plan play opportunities. They use observations to assess children's development and identify any gaps in their learning. They plan what children need to learn next. However, they do not always extend and build on what some children can do and provide the

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need to do better?

challenge they need for even further progression. n Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are well supported. The manager works with her team to accurately identify children's needs. The staff team work well with parents and external agencies to plan the right support. Staff review children's targets regularly. As a result, children progress well.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

The manager ensures that staff have access to regular training to update their knowledge of child protection and safeguarding issues. Staff demonstrate a good understanding of the procedures to follow should they have a concern about a child's welfare or the behaviour of a staff member. They know the signs and symptoms that suggest a child is at risk of harm. The manager has robust procedures in place for the recruitment and induction of new staff to ensure they are suitable. Children are well supervised and play and learn in a safe and secure environment.

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should:

n strengthen staff support to continuously develop their knowledge and skills to provide more challenge and encourage children's best possible progress in their learning.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 101586 Local authority Gloucestershire Inspection number 10307825 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 68 Number of children on roll 64 Name of registered person Hale, Sharon

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reference number

Telephone number 01594 541054 Date of previous inspection 23 March 2018

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Information about this early years setting

Sunbeams Day Nursery registered in 2001. It is located in Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire. The nursery is open from 7.30am to 5.30pm, Monday to Friday, all year round. There are 13 members of staff working directly with the children. Of these, one member of staff holds an appropriate childcare qualification at level 6, 10 hold appropriate childcare qualifications at level 3 and one at level 2. The nursery receives funding for the provision of early years 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 has taken that into account in their evaluation of the provider. n The manager and inspector completed a learning walk together across the nursery and discussed the early years curriculum. n The inspector spoke to children to find out about their time at the nursery. n Staff spoke to the inspector at appropriate times during the inspection and the inspector took account of their views. n The inspector observed the quality of education being provided, indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact that this was having on children's learning. n The manager and the inspector carried out a joint observation during a planned activity.

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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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