Beeches Nursery

Inspection of Beeches Nursery Minniecroft Road, Slough, Buckinghamshire SL1 7DE

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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 form positive relationships with the warm, caring and attentive staff. Staff provide comfort, such as cuddles, to children who need more reassurance. This helps children to feel safe and secure. Children develop their independence securely, including making choices about what to play with. Staff support children's awareness of expected behaviours. They model these to children, such as using good manners.

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The provision is good

Staff offer a well-considered curriculum linked to the children's learning needs. They provide a unique, tailored curriculum with appropriate targets for children who need extra support for their learning. This helps to meet all children's learning needs and promotes their progress successfully. Overall, staff weave in good- quality teaching during their daily interactions with children. They talk and sing with children consistently, which helps to support children's communication and language skills. Staff promote children's awareness of mathematics effectively, such as by encouraging counting and recognition of numbers. Children are keen learners. For example, they enthusiastically join in with adult-led activities.

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The provision is good

All children enjoy spending time outside. This provides opportunities for children to interact with each other and to explore, along with helping to promote their large physical development. On occasion, staff do not always consistently enhance children's large physical skills or support risk-taking as well as possible. Overall though, children develop their physical skills securely.

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need to do better?

n The manager has a strong understanding of her responsibilities, including safeguarding and supporting children's individual needs. She understands the importance of acting on concerns about children's development. For example, she seeks advice from other professionals to support children's needs. Additional funding is used suitably, such as to buy resources to help close any gaps in children's learning. n Staff receive regular support for their professional development and well-being. They understand the learning intentions and generally implement these effectively. The manager models high-quality practice to staff. Sometimes, staff do not fully reflect this practice to help them promote children's development even further. For example, during the inspection, not all staff built on the already good practice to further extend young children's early dressing skills. n Staff plan activities to help children practise and develop their skills. For

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example, babies played with sand and spoons. This helps them to gain the physical skills to feed themselves at mealtimes. Toddlers and pre-school children extend this skill further, such as through self-serving food with tongs and

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9 January 2024 spoons. This develops children's independence and small physical skills effectively. n All children benefit from regular outdoor play and outings. This offers babies opportunities to walk on different surfaces to support their balance and coordination. Pre-school children practise counting as they coordinate their jumps along numbered squares. Some toddlers are confident to challenge their physical skills. However, staff do not consistently support them to take risks. Staff do not always build further on children's large physical development. For instance, they do not encourage children to try and use the bike pedals instead of their feet to propel themselves along. n Children benefit from attractive and engaging activities. For example, babies and toddlers explored different materials and textures. There is a strong focus on reading books. This helps children to gain understanding of familiar words and

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phrases. Pre-school children listen attentively to books being read. They show a strong interest in discussing the story, for example by asking and answering questions. n Staff teach children how to care for themselves. For instance, they teach toddlers how to clean their noses and wash their hands afterwards. During the inspection, pre-school children thoroughly enjoyed making fruit smoothies, learning about healthy eating and where food comes from. Children, including babies, independently access drinks of water to support their well-being. n Children gain a sense of who they are. Staff display pictures of children's families and other items, such as flags from home countries. Children generally behave well. Staff guide their behaviour appropriately, such as reminding children to use their 'walking feet'. They give children consistent, warm praise and encouragement to support their self-esteem and confidence effectively.

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need to do better?

n Staff provide effective settling-in arrangements. They offer home visits along with settling-in visits. These support children to become familiar with staff. Staff gain effective information from parents to help them meet children's individual needs. Parents speak highly about the nursery, including the communication between them and the staff and manager.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

There is an open and positive culture around safeguarding that puts children's interests first.

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should:

n support staff to embed and build on their teaching skills to help raise the quality of practice and promote children's development even further

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should:

9 January 2024 n enhance staff's teaching to support children's confidence to take risks and to build further on the development of their large physical skills.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY496337 Local authority Buckinghamshire Inspection number 10305128 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 35 Number of children on roll 30 Name of registered person Countryside Nurseries (UK) Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 01628 603800 Date of previous inspection 12 February 2018

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Information about this early years setting

Beeches Nursery registered in 2016. The nursery is located within the grounds of St Peter's Church of England Primary School in Burnham, Buckinghamshire. It is open Monday to Friday from 7.30am to 6pm all year round except for a week at Christmas. There are seven members of staff who work directly with the children. Of these, six, including the manager, have relevant qualifications from level 2 to level 5. The nursery receives funding to provide free early education for children aged two, three and four years.

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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 nursery. n The manager and inspector completed a learning walk together of all areas of the nursery and discussed the early years curriculum. 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 An activity was observed and evaluated by the manager and inspector. n The inspector spoke to some available parents and reviewed some written feedback to take account of parents' views. n The manager showed the inspector documentation to demonstrate the suitability of staff. n The inspector observed the daily routines and children's play, activities and their interactions with staff during the inspection.

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n Children interacted with the inspector and chatted about what they like to do at nursery.

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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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