Busy Bees Day Nursery at Telford Priorslee

Inspection of Busy Bees Day Nursery at Telford Priorslee Priorslee Avenue, Priorslee, TELFORD, Shropshire TF2 9NR

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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

Leaders have designed a curriculum that provides children with a broad range of experiences that reflect the seven areas of learning well. Staff consider children's interests to support the planning process. Children benefit from opportunities to develop their understanding of the world through topics such as autumn walks, 'in and around Telford', and creative projects, such as making a cave for a dragon. The curriculum is progressive and identifies a sequential set of knowledge and skills for children to gain over time that is well thought out.

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The provision requires improvement

The quality of education provided to children is inconsistent. Leaders do not plan staffing rotas as well as possible to ensure staff deployment is sufficient to meet the learning needs of all the children. This leads to times when children are less engaged and motivated in purposeful play. For example, while some children in the room benefit from quality adult-led activities, other children are less supported. This impacts on the progress that children can make.

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The provision requires improvement

This said, staff understand how to help children to manage their emotions, especially when they separate from parents. This helps children to regulate their feelings. Staff provide children with warm, nurturing interactions that support children's emotional security. They provide children with the time and space they need to adjust to being back in the nursery after the weekend and offer soothing interactions to the babies.

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need to do better?

n Leaders do not prioritise the learning needs of the children when planning for staff deployment. Staff deployment is not fully effective in ensuring that practitioners in the rooms are always able to meet the learning needs of all children. Planned staff absences are not well managed by leaders. Although children's essential care and well-being needs are met, staff are often stretched, especially first thing in the morning. To meet ratio requirements, staff move children to a different room than the one they are used to. n This said, leaders provide practitioners with a wide range of supportive professional development opportunities. This includes providing staff with coaching and guidance about their practice, and training within the company and with the local authority. Staff can complete their own online research and training through the provider's online training portal. n Leaders and staff monitor children's progress and take action when they identify

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need to do better?

that children need additional support. This includes implementing interventions and liaising with outside agencies. n Key persons work closely with parents to gather information about children's development needs and interests. They complete some planning that focuses on

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need to do better?

25 November 2024 helping children to achieve their developmental milestones. However, planning for some children is generic and does not account for each child's essential learning needs. This hinders the progress they can make. n Due to weaknesses related to staff deployment and inconsistencies in the quality of teaching, there are times where some children lack engagement in their play. At times, staff are unable to provide children with the quality interactions they need. This leads to a slightly chaotic environment where some children run around the rooms, or are engaged in low-level, solitary play. This means that children are inconsistently supported in making progress. n The curriculum for children's communication and language development is intentional and focused on extending children's vocabulary and understanding of language. This is developmentally appropriate and progressive across the nursery from babies to pre-school. Leaders have recently introduced a book of

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the month to help children to become immersed in the language, characters and events of the stories. n Staff offer children guidance related to the behaviour expectations for the day. Children understand what to do at mealtimes, and staff encourage them to use good manners. Staff help toddlers to develop the skills to engage with other children. n Staff support children's physical development well, especially with the older children. They provide children with indoor and outdoor opportunities to practise their balancing skills and build their muscle strength. Children concentrate as they learn how to use a knife and fork to cut up play dough then put these skills into practice at lunchtime to chop their own food. n Leaders have extended the strategies to engage parents in their child's education. They provide an online portal with extensive guidance and information for parents to use with their children at home.

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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

plan effectively for staff deployment to meet the learning needs of all children throughout the day, especially first thing in the morning. 07/01/2025

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should:

n monitor and extend how key persons are planning and delivering children's personalised learning programmes to ensure that all children are fully supported in making the best possible progress n support staff to adapt their teaching to ensure that all children are engaged in purposeful play that helps them to progress.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 208218 Local authority Telford & Wrekin Inspection number 10373828 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 108 Number of children on roll 133 Name of registered person Busy Bees Day Nurseries (Trading) Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 01952 201727 Date of previous inspection 14 June 2022

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Information about this early years setting

Busy Bees Day Nursery at Telford Priorslee registered in 2009. It is one of a number of settings operating under the Busy Bees chain. The nursery employs 26 members of childcare staff. Of these, 18 hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3, one at level 4 and one at level 2. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday all year round. Sessions are from 7.30am until 6pm. It provides funded early education for children under two, two-, three- and four-year-old children.

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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 inspectors viewed the provision and discussed the safety and suitability of the premises. n The manager and inspectors completed a learning walk together of all areas of the nursery and discussed the early years curriculum. n Children interacted with the inspectors during the inspection. n The inspectors talked to staff at appropriate times during the inspection and took account of their views. n The special educational needs coordinator spoke to the inspectors about how they support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. n The inspectors carried out joint observations with the manager. n Parents shared their views of the setting with the inspectors. n The inspectors looked at relevant documentation and reviewed 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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