Bella Bambini Day Nursery

Inspection of Academy Day Nursery Academy Day Nursery, 21 Bestwood Park Drive West, NOTTINGHAM NG5 5EJ

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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 Inadequate

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The provision is good

Children arrive at the nursery happy and eager to greet staff and their friends. Children demonstrate their developing independence as they hang up their coats. They quickly settle and engage with different activities in the room. Staff are attentive to children's individual needs and support them to make choices about their learning and play. They actively engage with children and respond with enthusiasm when joining in with role-play games. They encourage children's communication skills by initiating conversations and asking questions. This helps children to consider what they are doing and begin to solve problems. For example, when playing outside, children recognise that they need a spade to dig in the sand. Staff guide them to where the tools are kept and say the word 'spade', which children repeat. This helps to reinforce children's early language development.

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The provision is good

Children benefit from being cared for by staff who know them well. Staff use their knowledge and ongoing assessments to provide meaningful activities that carefully build on children's prior learning and skills. This helps all children to make good progress. Staff foster positive relationships with children and are skilled in supporting children's emotional well-being. Children happily play alongside their friends, learning how to share and take turns with resources. Staff gently remind children about appropriate behaviour, such as not running indoors. This supports children's understanding of how to keep themselves safe.

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need to do better?

n The consistent staff team has helped to embed the key person system and staff have a secure understanding of how to support children's individual needs. Staff have received ongoing support and accessed a wide range of additional training and professional development. This has helped staff to focus on their effective engagement with children and improve their teaching skills to support children's learning. n Staff establish positive relationships with parents. They gather detailed information from parents when children first start. This helps them to identify clear starting points for learning and any additional support that children may need to help them make progress. Parents speak highly of the nursery and the friendly staff. They value the regular updates they receive and recognise the skills children have developed since starting. However, not all parents feel they receive clear information about how they can further support children's learning

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need to do better?

at home. n Staff have established effective systems to support children with daily routines. For example, staff use signs and pictures to help some children to feel more settled when transitioning from one activity to another. Children demonstrate that they feel calm and quickly re-engage as they move from outdoor to indoor

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need to do better?

12 December 2024 activities. n Staff promote children's independence skills effectively. They model how to use cutlery at mealtimes. Younger children learn how to use a spoon while older children begin to handle knives and forks to cut up their own food. Staff focus on key skills to help children take care of their own needs and to prepare them well for their transition to school. For example, children help themselves to drinks when they feel thirsty and put on their coats when going outside. n Overall, staff support children well during activities to encourage their curiosity and enable them to make connections in their learning. However, staff do not always react quickly when they observe a child is unable to move their learning forward without assistance. This occasionally leads to children disengaging from activities. n Children's awareness of the local community is fostered through a variety of stimulating activities. Visits to the nursery by the police and fire brigade

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need to do better?

contribute to increasing children's understanding of people who help us. Regular trips to the local library help to further promote children's interest in books and storytelling. n Staff engage in playful interactions with children and encourage them to use and develop their physical skills. Children show delight as they run and climb outside. They confidently use wheeled toys. Children express amazement as they dig down into the soil and find earthworms. Staff extend children's vocabulary by introducing and repeating words, such as 'wriggle' to describe the worm's movements. Children giggle and say 'tickle' as the worm moves in their hand.

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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 further develop their teaching practice so children actively engage as much as possible in activities n develop further partnership working with parents to ensure all parents feel confident in knowing how to support children's learning at home.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 2608939 Local authority Nottingham Inspection number 10360678 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 50 Number of children on roll 22 Name of registered person Academy Day Nurseries Ltd

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reference number

Telephone number 0115 9797800 Date of previous inspection 2 July 2024

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Information about this early years setting

Academy Day Nursery registered in 2020 and is situated in Nottingham. The nursery has operated under the same ownership for over 20 years. The nursery employs five members of childcare staff. Of these, two hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3 and one holds a level 2 qualification. The nursery opens Monday to Friday, all year round. Sessions are from 7.30am until 6pm. The nursery provides funded early education for children aged from nine months to four years.

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Inspection activities

n The provider 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 setting. n The inspector talked to staff at appropriate times during the inspection and took account of their views. 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 The inspector and provider carried out a joint observation of a planned activity. n Parents shared their views of the setting with the inspector. n The inspector looked at relevant documentation and reviewed evidence of the suitability of staff working in the nursery.

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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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