Busy Bees Belper

Inspection of Busy Bees Belper 1 Gibfield Lane, Belper, Derbyshire DE56 1WA

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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 Outstanding

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The provision is good

Children are happy and eager to arrive at the welcoming and secure nursery. They are greeted warmly and settle quickly, finding their favourite toys and activities. Staff support children well as they settle. Babies seek out familiar staff for hugs and reassurance throughout the day. Older children develop strong bonds with their key person as they seek them out for praise and encouragement, which helps children's emotional well-being and happiness. Children find photos of familiar family members in albums that staff have created and talk about who they can see.

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The provision is good

Children understand the routines throughout the day. They are respectful and listen carefully to instructions from staff. Children co-operatively work together as they play 'hide and seek' with staff. Staff playfully count to ten and find the children as they huddle together, giggling.

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The provision is good

Children's physical development is supported well. Children are encouraged to practise using their small muscles as they scoop up compost into pots and practise using tongs to serve themselves food at lunchtime. Staff encourage younger children to take their first steps and congratulate them enthusiastically as they achieve their goal. Older children are offered challenge as they scramble up apparatus and balance on beams, supported by encouraging staff. Staff engage with children as they practise their mark making skills. Children make marks that have a meaning to them, and proudly showing their creations to their key person.

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need to do better?

n The passionate and dedicated management team continually review and reflect on the provision offered, to ensure that children and their families have positive experiences. The management team prioritise training for staff. They provide an online training platform that helps staff to understand their roles and responsibilities, and develops their practice. Staff speak favourably about the benefits and impact of the training on their knowledge of child development. n Staff plan a wealth of activities that intrigue and excite children. The manager and her team implement a curriculum that prepares children for the next stage of their learning. This is designed to help children make the progress they are capable of. However, some staff do not provide enough challenge to children to enhance their learning further. For example, when children show an interest in the caterpillars that they are looking after in nursery, staff do not offer children

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new information or extend their understanding, to help them build upon what they know. n Children communicate their needs well. Older children confidently vocalise their thoughts and needs to staff. Staff are responsive to this and provide activities that encourage communication and language development, such as sharing

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11 June 2024 songs with children. However, on occasions, staff working with babies and younger children do not always recognise and build upon babies' early sounds and babble. n Staff have high expectations for children's behaviour. Children understand what is expected of them, and they are kind and courteous to their friends. Children listen to instructions and understand when to line up for activities or go outdoors. Staff use the story about 'the colour monster', to help children to learn about their feelings. This is incorporated into activities within nursery and children are encouraged to use the colours from the story to describe how they are feeling. n Parents are highly complimentary about the staff at nursery. They comment that the nurturing and friendly staff team go 'above and beyond' to help to settle their children and say that the nursery prioritises the children's welfare. Parents are provided with regular feedback about their children's progress, and say that

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need to do better?

key persons build strong bonds with their children. Parents are supported to help their children learn at home through borrowing books and accessing the online nursery support system that gives suggestions for activities to enjoy together in the home environment. n Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are supported well at the nursery. The management and staff team recognise the importance of early intervention to help to support children and to swiftly attend to their needs. Staff work together with parents and professionals to implement strategies that help children to blossom. As a result of this early intervention and strategy support, all children progress well while they are 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 strengthen staff skills to provide further challenges to children during free play to enhance their learning n develop how staff support babies' and younger children's communication and language skills.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY418090 Local authority Derbyshire Inspection number 10335330 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 147 Number of children on roll 125 Name of registered person Busy Bees Nurseries Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 01773882423 Date of previous inspection 12 June 2018

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Information about this early years setting

Busy Bees Belper was registered in 2021. and is situated in Belper, Derbyshire. The nursery employs 25 members of childcare staff. Of these, one holds an early years qualification at level 5, nine have an early years qualification at level 3, and four have an early years qualification at level 2. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday all year round. Sessions are from 7.30am until 6pm. The nursery 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 provider 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 inspector completed a learning walk together of all areas of the nursery and discussed the early years curriculum. n Children 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 special educational needs coordinator spoke to the inspector about how they support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. 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

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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 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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