Busy Bees Day Nursery at Loughborough

Inspection of Busy Bees Day Nursery at Loughborough 2 Storer Road, Loughborough LE11 5EQ

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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 GoodGood

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The provision is good

The caring staff team in this welcoming setting help children to settle well and develop strong secure emotional attachments. Babies enjoy exploring their environment, both indoors and outside, where staff support them in learning to crawl, cruise around furniture and take tentative first steps. Toddlers have fun as they practise balancing on beams in the garden, and begin to learn about capacity as staff introduce them to mathematical words, such as full and empty. Older children are encouraged by staff to use their critical thinking skills when they stack small bricks and count how many they have. Staff give high priority to supporting children's speech and language skills. They use commentary as children play, repeat back words children struggle to use, and ask questions to allow children to practise what they have learned.

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The provision is good

The daily routine is familiar to children. It threads through each room to aid smooth transitions as children move through the nursery. This helps children to feel safe and secure. Children show good behaviour. Staff endeavour to help them to learn what is right and wrong, through positive role modelling and interactions. Staff are consistent in their messages in terms of expectations on behaviour across the nursery, such as using kind hands and listening ears. This helps children to know what is expected of them as they transition from one room to the next.

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n Toddlers immerse themselves in the fun learning activities the skilled staff provide them with. They learn about the world around them as they pick petals from real flowers and push them into dough. Staff introduce new words to them, such as stem and petal, praising them as they repeat and use these words in their play. n Overall, all children benefit from meaningful learning opportunities across the curriculum. Staff implement a clear and appropriate curriculum to prepare children well for the next stage in their learning. It reflects children's interests and what staff identify children need to learn next. However, at times some staff are more focused on what they want the child to learn as opposed to what the children actually need to learn. This results in some play being either too complex or not complex enough. n Overall, staff provide activities within the daily routine to help children develop

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their independence. Toddlers and pre-school children learn to serve themselves snacks and meals, as well as pouring their own drinks. They are encouraged to put on their own shoes and coats for outside play, and aprons. This helps children to do as much as possible for themselves. However, staff do not encourage children to tidy away resources after they have finished with them. For example, staff pick things up for children when they discard toys on the floor

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10 September 2024 without encouraging children to do this themselves. Therefore, there are few opportunities for children to learn how to care for their environment or the resources within this. n Partnerships with parents are good. Comments are positive about the caring, kind and supportive staff team. Parents talk about the good progress their children make and of the good settling in procedures offered. Staff share ideas with parents on how to extend learning at home and also offer a book loaning scheme, to help children develop a love of reading. Staff make regular observations as children play, sharing these and photos, with parents to help to keep parents informed of their child's progress. n The manager is a good role model to staff. She spends time in all rooms, observing staff and offering ideas and advice on how to improve practice. The manager works hard to identify where improvements are needed, continually

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working on moving the setting forward. Staff comment that their well-being is promoted through good support from the manager and they feel valued. The manager helps staff identify training through discussion and supervision, enabling them to continually build on their professional skills. n Staff work closely with other agencies to ensure the provision offered for all children, including those children who have special educational needs and/or disabilities, meets their needs. This enables all children to make at least good progress in their learning and development.

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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 interest first.

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should:

n help staff to adapt their support to engage all children to enable them to become involved in activities appropriate to their needs and stage of learning n help children to learn how to take more care and responsibility for the resources they use.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY486991 Local authority Leicestershire Inspection number 10364644 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 40 Number of children on roll 34 Name of registered person Busy Bees Nurseries Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 01509 217275 Date of previous inspection 20 December 201920 December 2019

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Information about this early years setting

Busy Bees Day Nursery at Loughborough registered in 2015. The nursery employs eight members of childcare staff. Of these, seven hold early years qualifications, four at level three and three 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 The manager joined the inspector on a learning walk and discussed the curriculum and what they want children to learn. n The inspector carried out two joint observations with the manager. n The inspector observed staff's interactions with the children and the impact of these on children's learning. n The inspector spoke to children to find out about their time at the nursery. n Parents shared their views of the setting with the inspector. n The inspector discussed safeguarding arrangements with the manager and looked at relevant documentation and evidence of the suitability of persons working in 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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