Buckingham First Nursery

Inspection of Buckingham First Nursery 12 Buckingham Road, EDGWARE, Middlesex HA8 6LZ

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Overall effectiveness Outstanding

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

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The provision is outstanding

The highly skilled nursery staff create an exceptionally nurturing and caring environment for children and their families. There is a strong focus on promoting emotional literacy for children. This includes staff spending time with children to talk about their feelings and help them to recognise a range of emotions. Staff encourage conversations, and they discuss how various situations may make children feel. This helps children to recognise their own feelings and behaviours.

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The provision is outstanding

Children play harmoniously and form strong friendship groups. They show respect and kindness towards one another. This includes creating superb imaginary play games. Children use real fruit and vegetables and aprons as they make up recipes in the role-play corner. They use their mathematical skills as they find out how many of the different ingredients they need to create their mixture.

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The provision is outstanding

There is a highly ambitious, broad, and structured curriculum in place that helps to build children's knowledge in all areas of learning. Staff use accurate assessments to review planned activities and to support children to develop excellent skills, ready for school. Staff swiftly identify any gaps in children's learning and put excellent support strategies in place. This includes superb support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities.

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n The nursery benefits from an extremely strong, motivated, and knowledgeable leadership team. They lead a team of dynamic and enthusiastic staff, who are proud of their accomplishments and who strive to enable children to be the very best that they can be. The manager has a superb overview of the curriculum, and a comprehensive knowledge of what children need to achieve at each stage of their learning and development. n Interactions between staff and children are superb. Children show deep levels of engagement in the exciting activities that staff create. For instance, staff expertly build on children's communication and language skills as children play in the role-play home corners. Pre-school children dress up in clothes and pretend to make soups. They busily stir real vegetables in large metal pots, and explain that the radish may taste 'bitter' and the carrots are 'sweet and juicy'. n Children's health is given the utmost priority. Children enjoy healthy, home-

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cooked meals, which meet their individual dietary requirements. Children make fruit kebabs and talk about the healthy food on their plates. They know that they need to eat healthy food to make their teeth strong, and say that the dentist will be sad if they eat too much unhealthy food. Staff talk to children about having a little bit of unhealthy food and that it is called a 'balanced diet'. n Relationships between staff and children are exceptionally kind and caring.

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29 April 2024 Children's personal care needs are met sensitively. Babies and children relish the comfort they receive from staff. They demonstrate their feelings of security as they actively seek staff out for a cuddle and involve them in their play. n Children develop excellent physical skills and spatial awareness. Older children participate in complex obstacle courses in the large garden. They practice using climbing walls and tunnels, and use their whole bodies to throw tea bags with paint at paper on the garden walls. Toddlers enjoy digging collaboratively in the large indoor sandpit, while babies giggle as they pass large sensory balls to their friends. Additionally, they have opportunities to play various sports with the specialised coach who comes to the setting. These activities support them in forming healthy habits for their future. n The manager is extremely supportive of the staff team. Staff speak very highly

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of how they feel valued and listened to. The manager promotes staff's well- being and completes very regular supervision sessions and team meetings. Staff are highly skilled and are eager to complete extensive training. They participate in the evaluation of the setting. For instance, they recently completed communication and language training to enhance the already rich language environment. n Children are highly independent across all areas of their learning and development. They make choices in their play and independently help themselves to their food at lunchtime using tongs and spoons. There is a strong emphasis on encouraging children to develop their self-help skills in readiness for the next stage of their learning and the move on to school. n Parents are involved in all aspects of their children's care and learning. They receive detailed communication from staff regarding children's observations and

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assessments. In addition, parents are invited into the setting with their families to participate in well-planned stay-and-play sessions. Parents praise the manager and the staff for their commitment and passion for their roles. Staff provide exciting home-link activity ideas for parents and children to enjoy at home. This helps to provide a continued approach to children's learning.

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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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Setting details

Unique reference number EY538406 Local authority Harrow Inspection number 10338617 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 78 Number of children on roll 54 Name of registered person Man & Man Associates Ltd

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reference number

Telephone number 02089513338 Date of previous inspection 3 January 2019

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Information about this early years setting

Buckingham First Nursery registered in 2016, and is located in Edgware, Middlesex. The nursery employs 14 members of childcare staff. Of these, 12 staff hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 2 and above. The nursery opens all year round, except for bank holidays. Sessions are Monday to Friday from 8am to 6pm. The nursery provides funded 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 leaders and has taken that into account in their evaluation of the nursery. n The manager joined the inspector on a learning walk and talked about their curriculum and what they want children to learn. n The inspector and manager carried out a joint observation of an indoor activity. They discussed the impact that this had on children's learning. n Parents shared their views of the quality of the provision with the inspector, which were taken into account. n The inspector observed the interactions between staff and children inside and outside. She talked to staff and children at appropriate times during the inspection. n The inspector spoke with the manager about leadership and management matters. She looked at relevant documentation and reviewed evidence of the

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suitability of staff working in the 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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