Daisychains Nursery

Inspection of Daisychains Nursery Chequers Road, Minster on Sea, SHEERNESS, Kent ME12 3QU

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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 Good

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The provision is good

Children and their parents are warmly greeted at this family-friendly nursery. Staff provide children with cuddles, comfort and praise. Babies are nurtured and content. This supports their emotional well-being successfully. Staff plan activities to interest and inspire children. For example, babies delight in trying to catch leaves and fish projected onto the floor. They remain engrossed watching as they move about. This encourages their attention and concentration well. Staff plan a curriculum to support children's confidence effectively. For example, older children wash their own faces after lunch and check in the mirror that they are clean. This encourages children's self-care skills positively.

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The provision is good

Staff work well together to ensure that children have a secure start and a smooth transition on to their next stage of learning. They share information about children's next steps to support them in settling in. Older children are provided with a range of opportunities to develop key skills for school. For example, staff help children to identify different letter sounds in their names. Children eagerly find pencils to practise making letter shapes. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are very well supported. Staff work closely with parents and other professionals to ensure that they make good progress from their starting points. All children thrive.

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n Staff successfully prioritise encouraging children's independence. Older children demonstrate this well by putting away their lunch boxes and helping staff to tidy away. Younger children point at pictures to identify what drinks and snacks they would like. Staff praise children when they do this, which promotes their confidence and self-esteem effectively. n Children benefit from staff who provide toys and resources based on their interests. For example, older children enjoy using magnifying glasses to look closely at leaves, which is based on their fascination with bugs. Babies enjoy snuggling up with staff to share stories about their favourite animals. This helps to develop their knowledge and understanding. n Staff ensure that children know the routines of the nursery well. Children respond positively to staff's instructions to get ready for lunch, quickly finding their places. However, during key transition times, such as lunchtimes, staff do

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not always provide children with enough activities to engage them fully. This impacts on their focus and behaviour. n Children with SEND are well supported. Staff use pictures and sign language to help them know what is happening next and to aid their understanding. Staff are instrumental in accessing further advice and support to ensure that children with SEND make good progress in their learning and development.

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20 September 2024 n Children develop their physical skills effectively. Staff encourage babies to walk and crawl, which supports their core strength. Older children enjoy creating obstacle courses with blocks and planks outside, learning to balance. This successfully promotes children's gross motor skills. n Staff prioritise children's number knowledge effectively. They encourage children to count when rolling cars down guttering, modelling 'one, two, three'. Older children enjoy throwing beanbags into buckets, excitedly exclaiming how many they have. This helps to develop children's mathematical understanding well. n Children are provided with opportunities to work together. Older children talk avidly about what colours they have made when exploring paints. However, staff do not always recognise when they can extend children's language skills further, such as by introducing new vocabulary or building on conversations with

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children. This impacts on the amount of progress children can make. n Leaders and managers are passionate, proactive and hardworking. They prioritise staff's well-being effectively. Staff are well supported in their roles. They have strong partnerships with other professionals, outside agencies and the local community to support children and families, especially those with SEND, very well. n Communication with parents is very good. Information is shared in a range of ways to enable parents to know how to help their children at home and what their next steps are. Parents appreciate the ideas they get to support learning at home. For example, they talk highly of the healthy eating recipes they get and the 'book and bath' bags to help their children get ready for school. They say that the nursery is very flexible and inclusive.

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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 enhance support for staff to help them identify opportunities to encourage and extend children's language skills even further n review and improve transition routines for older children to support their engagement and focus.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY405580 Local authority Kent Inspection number 10360210 Type of provision Childcare on non-domestic premises Registers Early Years Register Day care type Full day care

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inspection

Total number of places 52 Number of children on roll 83 Name of registered person Daisychains Nursery Committee

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reference number

Telephone number 01795876473 Date of previous inspection 16 December 2019

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Information about this early years setting

Daisychains Nursery registered in 2009. It is a committee-run setting in Minster on Sea, Sheerness, Kent. The nursery is open from Monday to Friday, all year round. On Monday to Wednesday, sessions are from 7.45am to 5.30pm. On Thursday, sessions are from 7.45am to 6pm. On Friday, sessions are from 7.45am to 5pm. The nursery employs 25 members of childcare staff. Of these, 22 hold appropriate qualifications at level 2 or above. One member of staff holds a qualification at level 5. There is also a qualified teacher. 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 The inspector spoke to children to find out about their time at the nursery. n Staff spoke to the inspector at appropriate times during the inspection, and the inspector took account of their views. n The special educational needs coordinator spoke to the inspector about how they support children with SEND. 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 A joint observation of an activity was carried out by the inspector, the manager and the deputy manager. n Parents shared their views of the nursery with the inspector.

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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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