Little Pebbles Limited

Inspection of Little Pebbles Limited Sangam Community Centre, 210 Burnt Oak Broadway, Edgware HA8 0AP

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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 Not applicable

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The provision is good

Children thrive at this warm and nurturing setting. Leaders and other staff are friendly and welcoming to children and their families. They welcome them warmly each morning and invite parents regularly into the setting for special events, such as the recent Mother's Day celebration. This helps families to feel part of the nursery community.

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The provision is good

Leaders and staff have high expectations of what children should achieve during their time at the setting. Staff understand the progress that children have made and what their next steps are. They then plan how to help children to reach these next steps. This helps children to make good progress.

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The provision is good

Staff form warm, positive relationships with children. They meet children's emotional needs well and support them well if they need extra comfort. Children behave very well. They understand the clear expectations that staff put in place. Children respond well to the enthusiastic praise that staff give them throughout the day. For example, children beam with pride as staff exclaim, 'Wow! You shared with your friend so well'. The staff talk respectfully to each other and model to the children how to use good manners, such as saying 'please' and 'thank you'. This helps children to understand how to interact with their peers.

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The provision is good

Staff implement clear and consistent routines so that children have a good understanding of what will happen during the day. For example, after lunch, children go to find their bed and calmly and happily lie down to go to sleep. These well-embedded routines help children to feel safe and secure at nursery.

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need to do better?

n Leaders plan an effective curriculum for communication and language. Staff get down to children's level and narrate as they play. They read lots of stories to children. Interactions between staff and children are usually of high quality. Staff pick up well on what children say and support them to extend their sentences. This means that children progress well in their communication and language development. n On occasion, staff do not model accurate language to children, such as when they say, 'Shall we go garden'. On these occasions, this does not support children to use the correct sentence structures. n Staff support children who speak English as an additional language well, by communicating with them in their home language where appropriate. This helps children to develop a sense of pride in the languages they speak, as well as supporting children to make progress in their language development. n Staff help children to make good progress in their mathematical development.

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8 May 2024 They integrate counting into activities throughout the day and help children to identify shapes around them. Staff use mathematical language as they play with children. For example, they discuss how containers are 'half-full' or 'half-empty' and support children to use this language. Children begin to understand early mathematical concepts. n Staff teach children to be kind and caring and to develop empathy for each other. For example, they praise children when they get a tissue for their peer and talk about how children are feeling throughout the day. Children build warm relationships with their peers and engage well together in play, for example when they work together to bring water to the mud kitchen to make mud pies. n Staff give children many opportunities to develop their self-care and independence skills. Pre-schoolers confidently serve their food themselves and carry it back to their table. Toddlers pour their own water and get tissues when

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they need them. This helps children to prepare for the next stage of their learning, such as school. n Leaders understand what good practice looks like. They provide regular feedback and training opportunities for staff to help them to improve their practice. Leaders support staff well to progress in their careers by helping them to gain qualifications, where relevant. This helps staff to feel valued. n Staff identify early any children with special educational needs and/or disabilities or children who may need extra support. The special educational needs coordinator sets individual targets for these children and supports staff with strategies to help children to achieve their targets. Where necessary, leaders involve relevant external professionals so that children get the support they need to make good progress on their individual learning journeys. n Leaders build strong parent partnerships. Parents speak extremely positively

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need to do better?

about the nursery. They consistently feed back that they value the warmth of the staff and the daily feedback that they receive about what their children have been doing at nursery.

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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 so that their speaking of English consistently models accurate language to children.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 2785892 Local authority Barnet Inspection number 10343605 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 64 Number of children on roll 81 Name of registered person Little Pebbles Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 0208 952 9452 Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Information about this early years setting

Little Pebbles Limited re-registered in 2024. It is located in the London Borough of Barnet. The nursery is open 50 weeks a year from 8am to 6pm. It accepts funding for children aged two, three and four years. The provider employs 14 staff, 11 of whom hold relevant childcare qualifications.

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Inspection activities

n This was the first routine inspection the setting 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 provider. n The manager and the inspector completed a learning walk together of all areas of the nursery and discussed the early years curriculum. n The inspector spoke to children to find out about their time at the nursery. n The inspector talked to staff at appropriate times during the inspection and took account of their views. 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 The inspector carried out a joint observation of a group activity with the manager. n The inspector spoke to several parents during the inspection and took account of their views. n The inspector 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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