Fatemah Day Nursery

Inspection of Fatemah Day Nursery 64 Buckleigh Road, London SW16 5RZ

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Overall effectiveness Requires improvement

The quality of education Requires improvement Behaviour and attitudes Requires improvement Personal development Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Overall effectiveness at previous inspection Outstanding

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The provision requires improvement

Staff provide a settled and welcoming environment to help to promote children's emotional well-being. Children arrive happily and settle quickly. Staff build positive relationships with their key children. Children enjoy the company of staff and other children who also attend the nursery. Staff give lots of comfort to those children who need reassurance to help them feel safe and secure.

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The provision requires improvement

Staff are good role models and interact positively with children. They support children to manage their feelings and to behave well. Staff get down to children's level to explain how to behave well and share the toys to help to keep everyone safe. Staff encourage children to talk about their family backgrounds and home experience, such as family holidays and the languages children speak at home. Older children eagerly point to family pictures displayed throughout the nursery and say, 'That's me.' Children have a positive sense of belonging at the nursery and what makes them unique.

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The provision requires improvement

Overall, staff know their key children's learning needs. For example, in the baby room, they plan activities that focus on children's favourite nursery rhymes to help to develop their attention, communication and language skills. However, not all staff are very clear about what they intend children to learn next.

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need to do better?

n Leaders have a strong vision for providing quality and inclusive care to all children. For example, they ensure early intervention for those children who have identified gaps in their learning. This helps to provide targeted support and close any gaps in children's learning. n The dedicated and ambitious leadership team has a clear intent for the nursery curriculum and what it wants children to learn. However, leaders do not ensure that the curriculum intentions are met. They do not focus effectively on monitoring the impact of training that staff attend, to help to ensure that the team's knowledge and skills build and develop over time. Some staff's knowledge of the areas that they teach, and what they intend children to learn next, is limited. n Staff value the support provided by leaders and welcome opportunities to continue their professional development. All new staff are encouraged to achieve

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need to do better?

a childcare qualification and access ongoing development opportunities. However, most staff do not always recall or utilise what they have learned from these opportunities. This means that staff's continuous professional development is not enhancing the teaching of the curriculum. Despite this, overall, staff plan interesting opportunities and experiences for the different ages and stages of the children.

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need to do better?

5 March 2024 n The learning environment, indoors and outdoors, provides children with stimulating learning opportunities. This helps to motivate children to learn and entices them to engage in their play and have lots of fun. For example, outdoors, older children keenly mix large containers full of coloured jelly. Toddlers concentrate as they roll, squeeze and make shapes from dough. However, staff are unable to confidently explain what they want the children to learn through the planned activities. n Staff support children's communication and language skills in a range of ways. For example, staff model new vocabulary to older children, such as 'ambitious' and 'curious'. Staff comment on children's play and engage in conversation. This helps children to develop effective speaking and listening skills and become confident communicators. n Staff help to develop children's love of books, stories and rhymes. Children

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thoroughly enjoy listening to stories, read to them by staff, and singing familiar songs. Staff encourage young children's participation. The children wiggle and jiggle as they handle farm animal puppets and sing 'Old MacDonald Had a Farm'. n Parents are very positive with their feedback. They praise staff and leaders and the care they give to their children. Parents welcome daily communication and regular updates to keep them well informed about their children's daily routines and progress. They appreciate the support from staff to help with their children's development, such as with toilet training. Staff encourage parents to continue their children's learning at home. This helps to provide a consistent approach for children.

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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 strengthen the support given to staff to help identify what children will learn from the experiences provided across all areas of the curriculum, to ensure that the learning intentions are achieved n review arrangements to monitor professional development opportunities to ensure that staff share and implement what they have learned.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY218723 Local authority Lambeth Inspection number 10308115 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 45 Number of children on roll 64 Name of registered person Fatemah Nurseries Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 0208 765 0222 Date of previous inspection 27 March 2018

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Information about this early years setting

Fatemah Day Nursery registered in 2002. The nursery is located in the London Borough of Lambeth. The nursery is open each weekday from 7.30am to 6pm all year round. The nursery employs 17 members of staff. One member of staff holds an early years qualification at level 5 and the remainder hold qualifications at levels 1, 2 and 3. The nursery is in receipt of funding for the provision of 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 her evaluation of the nursery. n The manager joined the inspector on a learning walk and talked to the inspector about their curriculum and what they want their children to learn. n Staff spoke to the inspector during the inspection. n The inspector spoke with the manager and deputy manager about the leadership and management of the nursery. n The inspector observed the interactions between staff and children. n The inspector spoke to several parents during the inspection and took account of their views.

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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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