Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery West Kensington

Inspection of Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery West Kensington Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery, 1 Springvale Terrace, London W14 0AE

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Inspection date: 25 October 2024 - 12 November 2024

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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 Not applicable

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The provision requires improvement

Children enjoy their time in this welcoming setting. They are greeted by kind and caring staff who help them to settle well. Children are becoming confident and independent. For example, younger children take their coats off on arrival and hang them on individual pegs. Children show that they feel safe and secure. Babies and toddlers happily explore the indoor and outdoor areas. Older children confidently speak to visitors and share their positive views about the setting.

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The provision requires improvement

Overall, leaders have high expectations of all children. However, the quality of education is varied. For example, staff do not ensure that all children are engaged in meaningful learning as much as possible. There are inconsistencies in how staff teach children and help them to progress in their learning and development. This means that children's learning is not always maximised. This hinders the progress that they make.

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The provision requires improvement

Staff build positive relationships with children. However, they do not consistently help children to develop a secure understanding of the setting's rules or behavioural expectations. This is because leaders do not ensure that all staff implement a consistent approach to support children to learn to self-regulate their emotions and behave appropriately.

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need to do better?

n Leaders design a broad curriculum and are clear about what they want children to learn. Although staff practice is regularly evaluated, targeted training, support and coaching are not yet fully embedded to ensure that teaching is always of a high standard. n Overall, staff understand the importance of supporting children's communication and language development. Some staff converse with children well and expand their learning. For example, they identify children's interest in 'space' and extend their learning through discussions, role play and building 'a rocket'. In addition, some staff use children's home language to enhance their linguistic skills. n The key-person system in place helps to ensure that staff take responsibilities to keep all children safe. Staff know children well and identify their next steps. However, some staff do not differentiate activities to meet children's individual learning and developmental needs. This has a negative impact on how well

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children engage in their learning and hinders the progress that they make. n Staff support children to develop their large-muscle and balancing skills while in the garden. Children practise drawing with chalks, which supports their pre- writing skills. Children have opportunities to explore sand and other malleable materials, such as play dough. Younger children enjoy sensory explorations as they make marks with coloured ice cubes. This helps to strengthen their finger

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need to do better?

25 October 2024 muscles. n Staff prepare varied and nutritious snacks for children and ensure that the cooked meals provided are well balanced. Staff teach children about the benefits of a healthy diet. Staff follow good health and hygiene procedures. For example, they ensure that children know and follow routines, such as handwashing, consistently. Staff use mealtimes to build on children's awareness of healthy lifestyles. n Staff have yet to establish consistent behaviour management strategies. For example, staff ask older children to share toys with others or not to run with toys in their hands. However, at times, children ignore these requests, and staff do not effectively pursue this. This gives inconsistent messages to children and does not help them to understand what is expected of their behaviour. n Leaders work with other professionals when required and build on support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). They regularly

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need to do better?

assess children's development and put some strategies in place to begin to close gaps in their learning. For example, staff start to implement alternative methods of communication in daily practice to support children with SEND. n Parents speak highly of the nursery and state that their children have formed positive relationships with staff and leaders. They comment that children are happy and like attending the nursery.

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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

provide effective and targeted staff training, coaching and mentoring to improve the implementation of the curriculum, and to raise the quality of teaching to a consistently good or higher level 12/12/2024

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Due date

ensure staff tailor activities and opportunities for children to ensure that children's learning and developmental needs are met, and they make progress they are capable of 12/12/2024

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Due date

25 October 2024 implement behaviour management strategies, which support staff to be consistent in their approach, and which build on children's understanding of behaviour expectations. 12/12/2024

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Setting details

Unique reference number 2778686 Local authority Hammersmith & Fulham Inspection number 10362230 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 81 Number of children on roll 29

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Name of registered person

Monkey Puzzle Day Nurseries (West Kensington) Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 0203 490 9326 Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Information about this early years setting

Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery West Kensington registered in 2024. It is based in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. The nursery is open each weekday, from 8am to 6pm, for 51 weeks of the year. It receives funding to provide early education for eligible children. The nursery employs 19 members of staff. Of these, 15 staff hold appropriate childcare qualifications.

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Inspection activities

n The inspection was carried out following the risk assessment process, following information we received about the setting. n Leaders and the inspector completed a learning walk together. n Leaders and the inspector discussed the curriculum. n The inspector spoke to parents and staff and took their views into account. n The inspector carried out several joint observations with leaders. n The inspector reviewed relevant documentation.

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Inspection activities

25 October 2024 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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