Apricot Nursery and Jumping Jacks After School and Holiday Club

Inspection of Apricot Nursery and Jumping Jacks After School and Holiday Club 24 Wainman Road, PETERBOROUGH PE2 7BU

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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 Requires improvement

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The provision is good

Staff provide a wide range of inspiring activities designed to meet the children's interests and needs. Children spend long periods of time immersed in their learning. Babies delight in playing peek-a-boo with staff as they hide behind scarves. Staff are always on hand to support play ideas. For example, staff help younger children when they want to wrap the dolls in blankets and rock them to sleep. Older children enjoy digging in the sand to discover toy animals. Children have fun developing their physical skills. Staff ensure all children have access to daily fresh air and exercise. Babies build on their walking skills as they hold staff members' hands. Younger children explore the garden. Older children take part in daily yoga sessions, where they practise different yoga poses and breathing techniques.

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The provision is good

Staff support children to develop their independence well. They teach children skills such as serving their food, pouring drinks and putting away their belongings. They encourage children to try to do things for themselves first and they praise their efforts and achievements. Children behave well. Staff are good role models and clearly explain to children what they expect. They give children choices and use positive language, for example kind hands and walking feet. This helps boost children's self-esteem and encourages them to make appropriate choices on their own as they get older.

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need to do better?

n Since the previous inspection, the leadership and staff team have worked with local authority advisers to make significant changes. Leaders have designed an ambitious curriculum tailored to support all children to make good progress in their development. In each room, staff confidently talk about how they implement the curriculum to benefit children. n Staff's teaching is good. They are clear in what they want children to learn. Overall, staff regularly check the impact of their teaching. This allows staff to provide activities that focus on each child's learning needs. However, occasionally, staff lose sight of what they want children to learn and increase the difficulty level of the planned activity before the children are ready. n Staff promote children's language development across every activity and routines in the nursery. This includes children who speak English as an additional language. Staff interact with children to encourage their communication and

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need to do better?

thinking skills. They narrate and comment on children's play. Staff ask older children questions to support them to talk about what they are doing. They build on younger children's vocabulary by modelling the correct pronunciation and emphasising key words. Staff repeat words, such as 'squidgy' and 'sticky', to children as they play with dough. Babies enjoy a group signing session. They

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need to do better?

Club 19 September 2024 show prior learning as they recall and then sign 'more' when the song ends. n Leaders and staff team have the same ambition for all children. They assess children's development and identify any gaps or delays. Leaders work with parents and other professionals to provide children with the support they need to succeed at the nursery. Leaders use additional funding to support children's individual needs, purchasing specific resources and having extra staff. n Children benefit from a well-planned settling-in period when they start at the nursery and when they move to new rooms. All staff show genuine interest in children and support children's emotional well-being. Staff give cuddles to babies when they become upset and find their favourite toy to help distract them. Staff gently approach younger children to ask permission to change their nappy and kindly explain why this needs to be done.

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need to do better?

n Parents say their children enjoy coming to the nursery and are making good progress. They say they feel well informed about their child's time at the nursery. Parents say they are impressed with the progress their children make. They commend staff on how well they support their children to speak English. n Leaders and staff are reflective and always striving to further develop the already good-quality care and education that children receive. Staff value the development opportunities and feel supported. For example, they speak highly of the recent curriculum training. This has helped them to define and understand the knowledge and skills they want children to develop.

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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 ways to ensure that staff check what children have learned and understood from planned activities, to make sure that they continue to build on what they already know and can do.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY495490 Local authority Peterborough Inspection number 10316646 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 83 Number of children on roll 93 Name of registered person Apricot Childcare Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 01733 390969 Date of previous inspection 5 October 2023

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Information about this early years setting

Apricot Nursery and Jumping Jacks After School and Holiday Club registered in 2016. The nursery employs 32 members of childcare staff. Of these, 16 staff hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3. The nursery operates Monday to Friday from 8am to 6pm, all year round. 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 talked to the inspector about their curriculum and what they want the children to learn. n Staff spoke to the inspector during the inspection. n The inspector spoke with the leadership team about the management of 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 joint observations of group activities with the manager. n Parents spoke to the inspector 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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