Kid Ease Dover Buckland

Inspection of Kid Ease Dover Buckland Kid Ease Nursery, 1a Milton Road, DOVER, Kent CT16 2BJ

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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 Outstanding

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The provision is good

Families are warmly greeted at this friendly and welcoming setting. Staff know the children and parents very well and show kindness and care towards them. Children arrive happily, eager to go into their rooms to play and see their friends. This helps children to feel settled and secure. Staff provide a range of activities for children, which engage and motivate them. For example, younger children delight in exploring a 'winter wonderland' tray, sprinkling snow into cake cases and talking about the wintery weather with staff. Older children enjoy scooping coloured ice and explaining how it melts. These activities promote children's imagination and thinking skills successfully.

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The provision is good

Staff develop environments to support children's individual needs and interests effectively. For example, staff have created cosy, calm spaces for children to promote relaxation and reflection. These help children to learn to manage their feelings, promoting their emotional well-being. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are supported well. For example, children enthusiastically explore the special sensory space staff have developed for them. They maintain interest and concentration well when choosing different resources to play with. This helps promote children's positive attitudes to learning successfully. Staff provide one-to-one support and small group sessions to promote children's social skills. All children make good progress from their starting points.

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n Staff successfully support children to demonstrate good behaviour. Older children offer to help staff take paintbrushes outside for an activity and scrape their own plates at lunchtime. Staff ensure that children know the rules and routines well. For example, children explore pictures together, explaining the class 'raspberry rules'. Younger children are kind to each other, taking water bottles to their friends. Babies giggle and laugh as they wash their hands together. This promotes children's awareness and respect for others effectively. n Staff successfully promote children's perseverance and resilience. For example, staff encourage children to 'try, try again' when putting their own coats on. Staff praise and high-five children when they try new foods. Babies are comforted and cuddled by caring staff, who use family photos to help them settle in. This develops children's confidence and self-esteem well.

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n Staff provide children with activities that support their understanding. Older children learn words such as 'transparent' when talking about colours. Younger children listen as staff describe how to 'score' their potatoes. However, staff's support is not always consistent. This means that, at times, not all staff recognise when they could extend and enhance children's language further to promote development.

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need to do better?

28 November 2024 n Children with SEND are supported well. Staff know them well and adapt activities and games to meet children's individual needs effectively. For example, staff provide tailored support using children's favourite toys to encourage concentration and perseverance. Staff create individual learning plans to ensure that children make progress against their next learning steps. n Staff plan activities to excite and engage children. They enthusiastically explain to children how to paint umbrellas. Children are incredibly eager to have a go and sustain high levels of interest, talking about rainbows. Babies delight in joining in with rhymes and stories. These activities successfully promote children's engagement. n Children's mathematical skills are promoted well. Staff talk to children about 'segments' when counting fruits. Children are encouraged to count 'one, two, three' when pushing cars down ramps with staff. Older children enjoy playing a

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need to do better?

matching bingo game together. These activities promote children's learning effectively. n Leaders and managers have worked hard to adapt provision and support staff's safeguarding understanding well. They prioritise staff's well-being effectively. They are passionate and proactive. They have developed strong links with external agencies, the local authority and nearby schools to support children's next learning phases. The setting raises money for local charities to support families well. n Partnerships with parents are strong. Parents are provided with effective feedback about their children's progress. They appreciate and value the support they are offered from staff. For example, parents talk highly of the flexible sessions to support their working patterns. Parents are invited into the setting regularly and look forward to these events. They report that their children enjoy attending and have made strong bonds with staff. They say that the setting is

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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 support staff to identify when they can further extend children's language and communication skills more consistently.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY286476 Local authority Kent Inspection number 10371069 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 58 Number of children on roll 94 Name of registered person Kid Ease Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 01304 820948 Date of previous inspection 19 February 2020

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Information about this early years setting

Kid Ease Dover Buckland registered in 2004 and is located in Dover, Kent. It is owned by Kid Ease Limited, which also owns other nurseries in Kent and Norfolk. The nursery opens each weekday, from 8am to 6pm, 51 weeks of the year. There are 16 members of staff working with the children, of which 13 hold early years qualifications. The nursery is in receipt of early years funding for children aged two, three and four years.

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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 their children to learn. n Staff spoke to the inspector at appropriate times during the inspection, and the inspector took account of their views. n The inspector spoke with the nominated individuals about the leadership and management of the setting. n The quality of education being provided was observed by the inspector, indoors and outdoors, and the inspector assessed the impact that this was having on children's learning. n The inspector carried out a joint observation of a communication and language activity with the manager. n Parents shared their views of the setting 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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