Rainbow Day Nursery

Inspection of Rainbow Day Nursery Love Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR32 2NY

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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 Requires improvement

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The provision is good

Children show that they feel safe and secure in this well-resourced, comfortable and inviting nursery. They develop strong bonds with staff, particularly their key- person. Staff help children to know what is happening next and give them time to prepare for any changes in activities. They praise children for their 'fantastic help' in tidying up. This helps to promote children's positive behaviour. Furthermore, children learn to share, take turns and cooperate. For example, when they would like a turn with popular resources, children fetch a sand timer and talk about when they can join in.

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The provision is good

Managers develop their curriculum in response to information they gain from prompt and sound assessment of children's skills and abilities. Staff provide children with a wealth of positive educational opportunities, which children enthusiastically participate in.

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The provision is good

Staff help children to actively participate in their local community. For example, staff regularly take small groups of children to visit the nearby day-care and care home. Children greet the older people that they recognise with joy. They communicate with each other as they draw pictures and mould dough into shapes together. The children and older people show interest in each other's work together, cheerfully gifting pictures to one another. These first-hand experiences help children to understand, respect and value the differences between themselves and others.

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n Managers and staff show a deep understanding of the needs of families and children that they work with, giving expert support to families. They strive to identify what they can do to help and guide parents, offering them sensitive support. Parents really appreciate the difference that the staff team make to their children's lives. n Staff introduce parents to sign language to help them recognise when their child uses signs to communicate at home. This is helpful for parents and children because several staff skilfully use sign language, alongside lots of talking and introducing lots of new words, to help children to develop their understanding of language. n Children remain focused on meaningful play throughout their day. They set and achieve their own challenges such as trying to get their paper aeroplanes through a hoop that they ask staff to make 'higher and higher'. Children enjoy learning about nature with staff who introduce them to new information.

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n Children develop their fine motor skills in a variety of ways. For example, they choose dough, draw and paint using invitingly presented resources. Outside, in

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30 April 2024 the large field area, they build strength and coordination as they use wheelbarrows and play football together. n Managers and staff form strong and effective working partnerships with other professionals and organisations, including statutory agencies that safeguard children. This benefits individual children, such as those who have special educational needs and/or disabilities. Links with dentistry services help staff to understand how to teach all children how to achieve good oral health. n Children make good progress in their communication and language development due to the successful, individualised strategies that staff use. Managers help staff to understand the positive difference that a keen focus on communication and language makes to children's development in literacy, and their chances of future educational success. Overall, staff support communication and language well. However, occasionally, there is too much background noise when staff

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need to do better?

deliver teaching aimed at supporting children to develop their speaking and listening skills. This affects how well the youngest children can tune in to speech sounds in order to be able to then recreate them for themselves. n Staff report high levels of support from managers for their own well-being. They are motivated to provide children with effective care and learning, and work cohesively as a team. This helps to create the positive and productive environment where children's safety, health, well-being and learning are central to everything that managers and staff do. n Since the last inspection, managers and staff have made several changes, including to staff deployment. Ambitious staff training plans are in place. Several, but not all staff, demonstrate exemplary teaching which shows how well they understand the intended curriculum. Some staff are still developing their understanding and skills in delivering a similar high-quality level of teaching.

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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 consider ways to reduce background noise levels to support children with tuning into and hearing speech sounds more clearly n find ways to offer even more effective support to less experienced staff to help them to raise the quality of their teaching.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY494119 Local authority Suffolk Inspection number 10300688 Type of provision Childcare on non-domestic premises

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Registers

Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register Day care type Full day care

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inspection

Total number of places 48 Number of children on roll 106 Name of registered person Rainbow Day Nursery Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 01502 585400 Date of previous inspection 5 June 2023

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Information about this early years setting

Rainbow Day Nursery registered in 2015. It is situated in Lowestoft, Suffolk. The nursery employs 20 members of childcare staff. Of these, 19 members of staff hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3 or above, including the manger who holds a qualification at level 6. The nursery opens Monday to Friday all year round, except for bank holidays and a week over Christmas. Sessions are from 8am to 5.30pm. The nursery provides funded early education for two-, three- and four- year-old children.

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Inspection activities

n The inspector discussed any continued impact of the pandemic with the provider and has taken that into account in their evaluation of the provider. n The deputy manager, manager and inspector completed a learning walk together of all areas of the nursery and discussed the early years curriculum. n Children spoke to/communicated with the inspector during the inspection. n The inspector talked to staff at appropriate times during the inspection and took account of their views. n The inspector spoke to several parents during the inspection and took account of their views. n The inspector spoke with the nominated individual, who is also the manager, and the deputy manager about the leadership and management of the setting. n The inspector carried out a joint observation of a communication and language activity with the special educational needs coordinator. n The manager and deputy manager and inspector accompanied children and staff

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for part of their visit to the local day-care centre.

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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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