Cornfields Day Nursery

Inspection of Cornfields Day Nursery 20 Bridge Street, Slaithwaite, HUDDERSFIELD HD7 5JN

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Overall effectiveness Good

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

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The provision is good

Children feel safe and thrive in the nursery through individualised support from very skilled and experienced staff. The curriculum is challenging and well thought out to ensure all children make rapid progress from their starting points. High- quality interactions from staff encourage children to be curious and inquisitive learners. This also helps to build children's confidence and promotes their self- esteem.

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The provision is good

Staff take great note of what motivates the children and captures their interest. From a young age, many of the children are fascinated by the different vehicles they see come and go from the builder's yard. The children watch as the forklift trucks pass the window, and they listen to the different sounds they make. In the baby room, staff put together an area with different toy trucks and simple construction toys, as well as picture books to refer to with the different vehicles. The children make connections with what is going on outside, as they point excitedly at what they see.

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The provision is good

Staff manage the transitions throughout the nursery well to ensure children continue to feel confident and supported. Timely interventions ensure children with special education needs and/or disabilities get the support they need. The best use of funding is carefully considered to ensure the best outcomes for children. Focused activities in quieter areas of the nursery allow staff to provide intensive, targeted support to meet children's needs.

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The provision is good

Children behave well and staff support them to learn about emotions and feelings and how their behaviour can affect others around them. Staff also plan a range of activities that actively encourage children to talk about and recognise their feelings.

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need to do better?

n Staff provide a rich language environment and engage children in ongoing dialogue, valuing children's time to talk and listening well to them. Staff broaden children's vocabulary, introducing them to new words and their meaning. Staff build children's confidence to talk in groups, and in pre-school children take turns to lead yoga sessions. n Mathematical language and counting are skilfully interwoven into children's play and daily routines. For example, at snack times, numbers positioned in snack bowls show the children the number of pear slices they can have. During construction activities, children count the number of bricks tall they are and compare how many bricks taller they are than their friends. They predict how many they will need to reach their height and talk about who is the tallest and by how many bricks.

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11 September 2024 n Children learn how to use a range of tools safely and develop their hand strength. The introduction of 'finger gym stations' includes activities like threading and weaving, using tweezers to transport items and manipulating dough. This all helps children to develop their control and coordination, useful skills needed for their transitions to school. n Staff deployment is mostly effective and they know the children's capabilities well. Staff sit with the children at lunchtime and it is a very social occasion, although staff are not always mindful of positioning themselves closer to older children who are less inclined to ask for help but may need it. n Staff widen children's experiences as they take them out in the local community. They visit local greengrocers to buy fruit for their snack and learn about healthy eating. They visit the local recycling station and sort different items, learning

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need to do better?

about what happens to these and the different items they can be made into. n Staff invest heavily in partnerships with parents and carers. Staff take time to really get to know children when they first start and find out where they are in their learning journey so they can plan their next steps in learning. Staff provide parents with detailed feedback on their children's development and encourage them to be actively involved in the nursery and curriculum planning. Learning bags are available for parents to take home and include story sacks, songs and rhymes and yoga movements to do with their children. n While the provider has a robust range of policies and procedures in place, these are not always revisited when changes are made to the environment. For example, when a fridge was relocated from a higher position to a lower one, risk assessments were not reconsidered to ensure they still remained effective in

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need to do better?

terms of safe storage of items. Although, when brought to the manager's attention it was immediately dealt with and supervision was such that no children were unsupervised in this area. n Leaders place a strong emphasis on supporting the professional development and well-being of staff. Leaders encourage staff to reflect on their practice and the experiences they offer to children. Staff attend regular training to continuously build on their knowledge and skills to ensure they can provide high- quality learning experiences for children.

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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 how best to effectively deploy staff, at lunchtimes, to assist those

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11 September 2024 children that are less inclined to ask for help n ensure when any changes are made to the nursery environment, risk assessments are revisited to ensure they still remain effective.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY358944 Local authority Kirklees Inspection number 10364772 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 75 Number of children on roll 88 Name of registered person Cornfields Day Nursery Ltd

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reference number

Telephone number 01484 846372 Date of previous inspection 17 December 2018

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Information about this early years setting

Cornfields Day Nursery registered in 2007. The nursery employs 17 members of childcare staff, 15 of whom hold appropriate early years qualifications; two at level 2, 12 at level 3 and two of whom are doing their level 5 qualification. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday, all year round. Sessions are from 8am until 6pm. The nursery offers government funded places for childcare.

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Inspection activities

n The inspector viewed the nursery and discussed the safety and suitability of the premises. n The manager and the 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. n The manager and the inspector carried out two joint observations of a group time session and a planned activity. n Parents shared their views of the nursery with the inspector. 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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