Footprints Nursery

Inspection of Footprints Nursery 30-32 Adams Street, BURNHAM-ON-SEA, Somerset TA8 1PQ

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Overall effectiveness Requires improvement

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

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The provision requires improvement

Staff welcome children with open arms and a smile, so they happily part from their parents and carers. Parents comment positively on the friendly staff and how much their children enjoy coming to the setting. Babies and young children eagerly cooperate with nappy changing, as staff make eye contact and soothingly chat to them. Children and adults have warm, positive relationships, and children clearly feel emotionally secure. Children behave well, although occasionally, some wander around or sit watching others through a lack of motivation.

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The provision requires improvement

Overall, leaders plan an appropriate curriculum that focuses on embedding children's prime areas of development. However, staff do not always implement it successfully through high-quality teaching. Leaders and staff do not organise all the environment effectively to support the curriculum and help all children to make the best progress they can. Nor do they provide parents with all the information they need to support children's learning at home.

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The provision requires improvement

Children have daily opportunities to be outdoors and active. Young children enjoy climbing through tunnels, using a small slide and playing in the sandpit. Older children use tools with dough and have opportunities to attend 'Beach School,' where they also develop their awareness of safe practices.

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need to do better?

n Leaders provide staff with supervision and support and identify where staff can make some improvements. Leaders continue to extend their knowledge and skills through training and use them well to support staff. For example, inexperienced staff confirm how quickly they are learning to support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. However, not all staff challenge or extend children's learning, which was a weakness at the last inspection. Leaders have done too little to ensure that children receive consistently good-quality teaching. n When children first start, staff get to know them well through discussions with parents and their own observations. They monitor children's development to know what to plan next, although leaders do not ensure that this is consistent for all children. Their systems to ensure that all parents have valuable information are not robust. Some parents do not receive required documentation

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need to do better?

or sufficient information on their children's progress to be able to support them better at home. n Children have good spaces to play in, both indoors and outdoors. However, staff do not always organise all areas and resources in a way that inspires children to be inquisitive and develop their ideas. For example, although children learn to share the two dolls and buggies in one role play area, the lack of additional

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need to do better?

9 October 2024 resources means that although they enjoy their play, they do not explore and extend their interests to build their knowledge, learn new skills and develop a positive attitude to learning. n Leaders' intention is that staff support children's independence by enabling them to do as much as they can for themselves, according to their abilities, building their skills step by step until they can manage on their own. Although staff help children to try for themselves, they occasionally take over and do things for them. This was also a weakness at the last inspection. n Staff provide suitable support for children to develop their communication and language skills. They ask older children some open-ended questions and give them enough time to think and respond. They talk and sing to babies and check toddlers' understanding by giving them instructions to follow, such as turning on technology toys. However, staff do not consistently extend children's vocabulary

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need to do better?

or help older children to recall past learning, which helps them to remember more. n The premises are sufficiently clean. Staff follow effective procedures to protect children's health, such as wearing gloves and aprons to change nappies. Leaders prepare nutritional meals and keep the kitchen area clean. Staff have important knowledge of children's dietary requirements and most have completed food hygiene training. Children help themselves to drinks to keep hydrated, especially after being outside or exercising. n Leaders ensure the premises are secure and free from hazards. Staff have daily checklists to keep all areas safe for children. Leaders ensure they meet the required ratios of qualified staff, and that staff supervise children in all areas.

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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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Due date

ensure staff undertake appropriate training and development to implement the curriculum more effectively and build on what children can already do 31/01/2025

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Due date

9 October 2024 improve systems to ensure all parents receive the required information they need on children's progress, to enable them to share their children's learning at home. 31/12/2024

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should:

n improve the organisation of the environment to motivate children more effectively and enable them to develop their interests and deepen their inspiration to learn.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY475901 Local authority Somerset Inspection number 10365621 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 50 Number of children on roll 58 Name of registered person BBN Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 01278 786528 Date of previous inspection 2 April 2019

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Information about this early years setting

Footprints Nursery registered in 2014 and is one of several privately-owned nurseries. The nursery is situated in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset. It is open Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm, all year round, excluding bank holidays. The nursery offers government-funded places. There are 10 members of staff. Of these, one holds an early years qualification at level 6 and one at level 4. Four staff hold an early years qualification at level 3 and one at level 2.

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Inspection activities

n We carried out this inspection as a result of a risk assessment, following information we received about 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 The inspector and manager conducted a joint observation of a planned activity in one of the pre-school rooms. n The inspector spoke with parents and children, taking account of their views. n The inspector talked to staff at convenient times and observed the quality of teaching, assessing the impact this was having on children's learning. n The managers and inspector held a meeting to discuss the leadership of the setting, and the inspector looked at relevant documentation, including evidence of the suitability of staff 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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