Salisbury Day Care

Inspection of Salisbury Day Care 495 HIGH STREET NORTH, MANOR PARK, LONDON E12 6TH

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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 supported to settle at the nursery by kind and considerate staff. Staff reassure children as they arrive with warm greetings and soothing words, helping them to feel safe and secure. They know children well and adapt their care and learning approaches to children's individual needs. For example, staff recognise that children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) benefit from some individual time with staff when they arrive to help them to settle into the routines of the day.

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The provision is good

Staff find out and plan for children's interests and learning needs through interesting topics. Staff provide opportunities for children to develop the skills required for the future. For example, children manipulate play dough and mix paint to make marks with paintbrushes. This helps to strengthen children's arm and hand muscles for later writing. Children develop a keen interest in reading. They choose to look at books and listen to many stories read by staff.

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The provision is good

Staff follow plans that clearly identify the knowledge children will learn and in what order. They check regularly what children know, understand and can do. They use this information to decide what children need to learn next. Children, including those with SEND, and who speak English as an additional language, make good progress.

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need to do better?

n The manager and staff implement an ambitious and well-designed curriculum, offering a variety of both adult- and child-led learning. However, sometimes during child-led learning, staff do not identify opportunities in children's play to take their learning to the next level. For instance, staff do not consistently challenge children's learning to build on what they know and can already do. Therefore, children are not consistently provided with high levels of challenge throughout the day. n Staff promote children's communication well. They use strategies shared with them by professionals to support children's progress. They clearly narrate and emphasise words for children to copy. Staff describe objects and actions for children as they play with them. Children learn to correctly pronounce words. Children enjoy listening to and joining in with familiar stories. n Staff support younger children's listening skills well as they use musical

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instruments to make different sounds and change the beat of nursery rhymes. Older children regularly use and hear different letter sounds in their play. For example, children enthusiastically find their initial letter from stickers as they decorate a crown. n The manager is enthusiastic in her role. She uses various strategies to lead her

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13 December 2023 staff team well. She provides effective supervision and support to staff. However, the coaching and mentoring of senior staff who are new to their role are still being established. Therefore, the monitoring and deployment of staff is not consistently effective. Staff say that they enjoy their roles and feel valued and supported. n Children are provided with ample opportunities to be physically active and have daily access to the well-resourced garden. Children develop their physical skills as they ride bikes and scooters. Children are keen to take turns and eagerly ask for the timer to share the bikes with their friends. n Staff model expected behaviour and place a great emphasis on reward and praise when children behave positively. Children are learning to be independent as they put their coats on for outdoor play and enthusiastically scrape their plates after mealtimes. n Partnership with parents is good. Parents are positive about the setting and the

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care and attention their children receive from staff. They highlight how much progress their children have made over time. Parents appreciate the information they regularly receive about their children's progress and the ideas for how to support their learning at home. Staff work closely with parents and professionals from other agencies to identify children with SEND early. n The leaders and manager are dedicated and committed. They have a clear and ambitious vision for the nursery, which is shared with the staff. They are reflective of practice and seek to continually improve the nursery and make enhancements, where necessary, based on the needs of the current cohort of children.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

The manager and staff understand their responsibility to protect children from harm. They refresh their safeguarding knowledge through regular training and discussions. The managers and staff know how to recognise the signs of child abuse. This includes risks such as exposure to domestic abuse or extremist views. They are confident about the procedures to follow if they are worried about a child or have concerns about the conduct of a colleague. Staff follow nursery procedures and carry out checks to provide a safe and secure environment for children. The provider follows robust recruitment processes to help to ensure staff's suitability.

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should:

n support staff to strengthen their teaching strategies to consistently challenge and extend children's learning n strengthen the coaching and mentoring of new senior staff to ensure that all

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13 December 2023 interactions and experiences for children are of equally high quality.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY492461 Local authority Newham Inspection number 10307906 Type of provision Childcare on non-domestic premises Registers Early Years Register Day care type Full day care

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Total number of places 26 Number of children on roll 25 Name of registered person Salisbury Primary School Governing Body

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reference number

Telephone number 0208 478 6059 Date of previous inspection 21 March 2018

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Information about this early years setting

Salisbury Day Care registered in 2015. It is located in the London borough of Newham. The nursery operates from Monday to Friday, 7.30am to 6.30pm, all year round. The nursery receives funding for the provision of free early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children. In total, five staff work at the nursery. All staff hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3 or above.

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Inspection activities

n This was the first routine inspection the nursery 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. The manager explained how the curriculum is organised and the intentions for children's learning. n The inspector observed teaching practices and considered the impact these have on children's learning. n The inspector held discussions with the manager and the staff and gained feedback from parents. n The manager and the inspector carried out two joint observations of activities. n The inspector sampled some of the setting's documentation, including evidence of staff suitability.

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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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