Setting EY493104

Report for childcare on domestic premises

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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 thoroughly enjoy attending the nursery. This is because the manager provides carefully considered learning opportunities that help all children to succeed. Children learn to develop their core strength during outdoor play. They use the big muscles in their arms and legs on the climbing frames, slides, and bicycles, and are helped skilfully by the caring staff team. Children chatter excitedly with staff, including to celebrate how they have learned by themselves to make the nursery swing move. Such well-thought-out teaching helps to build children's resilience and confidence. Staff read a range of high-quality books to children throughout the day. They help children to learn important knowledge from books, such as the life cycle of a butterfly.

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The provision is good

Staff have high expectations for children's behaviour. They encourage children to play with each other kindly. This helps children to learn how to make friends and join in play cooperatively. Children learn how to care for the nursery resources, which is helped by staff's careful modelling of tidying up. The manager and staff ably build secure relationships with children when they start at the nursery. They learn from parents about children's interests and what support might help them to settle. This helps children to feel happy and safe at the nursery.

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need to do better?

n The manager provides children with an ambitious curriculum that builds on their previous learning. She ensures that staff use assessment strategies successfully to identify what children already know and what they have learned at the nursery. Staff use children's current interests to plan meaningful learning that engages and excites them. Children learn much new knowledge and want to learn more. n Mostly, the manager and staff promote children's language development well. Staff sing a wide range of familiar nursery rhymes and re-read stories to build children's knowledge of words. However, at times, some staff use very long sentences that leave some children confused. This does not support children's understanding and processing of language. n Staff understand the physical development needs of children and babies. Staff help babies to climb inside and pull themselves up onto nursery equipment that is just at the right height. Staff guide older children to persist at swinging,

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climbing, and riding wheeled resources with skill. This encourages children to explore freely and become confident and physically strong. n Children benefit from the manager and staff's careful approach to supporting their behaviour. Staff teach children how to wait their turn and use their manners. For example, children thank staff for providing snack, with no prompting. Children are kind, considerate, and polite.

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17 April 2024 n Staff help children to learn to look after their health. They discuss with children what foods and drinks can be healthy choices. Children learn about the importance of brushing their teeth. They know that the choices they make can help them to be healthy. n Staff help children to learn essential knowledge about the language of emotions. They skilfully use books, such as 'The Colour Monster', to identify the names of different emotions. Staff and children practise using the facial expressions that may indicate a certain emotion. Children use words to explain how they feel, and manage their feelings well. n The manager provides a wealth of meaningful learning experiences to help children to understand important aspects of life in modern Britain. For example, staff celebrate with children a range of different festivals, such as Eid, Chinese New Year, and Easter. Children learn that they are unique, and to respect the

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differences between themselves and other people. n The manager and staff work in close, respectful partnership with parents and carers. For instance, they make sure that they share information with parents about their child's learning. Parents say that they receive valuable suggestions from staff about how to support their children's learning at home. This helps children to develop knowledge and skills for their future learning. n The manager provides effective support to staff. For instance, she observes the quality of staff's practice to accurately identify the strengths and areas for improvement in their work with children. Staff deliver the curriculum well because of the high-quality support that they receive from the 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 improve staff's understanding of how children learn language, to help develop children's communication skills even further.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY493104 Local authority Cheshire East Inspection number 10340758 Type of provision Childcare on 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 18 Number of children on roll 26

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reference number

Date of previous inspection 22 October 2019

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Information about this early years setting

Sara Linwood Childcare Services registered in 2015 and is located in Crewe. This setting employs 11 members of staff. Of these, seven members of staff hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3, and one at level 2. The setting opens from Monday to Friday all year round. Sessions are from 7am to 6pm. The setting provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.

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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 manager and has taken that into account in their evaluation of the nursery. n The manager joined the inspector on a learning walk and talked with the inspector about their curriculum and the knowledge that they want children to learn. n The inspector spoke with children to find out about their time at the nursery. n The inspector observed the quality of education being provided and assessed the impact that this had on children's learning. n The manager and the inspector carried out a joint observation of a reading activity. n The inspector spoke with several parents during the inspection and took account of their views. n The inspector looked at relevant documentation and reviewed evidence of the suitability of staff working at the nursery.

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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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Inspection activities

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