Honeybuns Day Nursery

Inspection of Honeybuns Day Nursery 17 Whitchurch Road, Wellington, TELFORD, Shropshire TF1 3DS

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Overall effectiveness Good

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

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The provision is good

Children are happy, settled and content at this nursery. Staff warmly welcome children on arrival and take time to chat to them and their families. Leaders prioritise children's individual needs and implement a carefully considered key- person approach. Staff are kind, caring and considerate. For example, they offer younger children hugs and reassurance and help and guide older children as they play or learn new skills.

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The provision is good

Leaders and staff place a high priority on supporting children's emotional security. Staff successfully engage children in a variety of techniques to help them to recognise their feelings and begin to regulate their emotions. For example, small, soft teddies depicting the emotions 'happy', 'sad', 'worried', 'angry' and 'surprised' are available for children to choose when staff shrewdly notice this might be required. Furthermore, there is a quiet, calm sensory room available for children to make use of if they need to. Children develop excellent strategies to independently regulate their feelings and behaviour.

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The provision is good

Children are highly motivated as they explore well-planned, focused activities. Staff make sure that children have plenty of time to persist and succeed when learning a new skill or solving a problem. For example, when making a magic wand in the forest garden area using a wide range of natural and creative materials, children keep trying to refine their scissor skills to cut lengths of ribbon or small twigs.

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need to do better?

n Leaders support the staff team very well at this nursery, with the whole team working well together. It is obvious that all staff and leaders are passionate about what they do. Staff understand how to implement the personal development curriculum to build on children's skills over time. Staff support children very well in regard to their emotional development as they transition to the next stage in their education journey. n Leaders ensure their ethos is securely embedded across the nursery. The curriculum has been thoughtfully considered and structured so that children learn the skills they need through play and focused activities. They successfully build on their skills through a carefully sequenced curriculum. n Leaders support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities very well. Partnership working is excellent and means that children's individual needs are nurtured and supported. Timely and prompt assessments of children's

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need to do better?

progress mean that gaps in development are highlighted quickly. Intervention programmes and additional support, as well as focused use of additional funding, mean children make good progress from their starting points. n Leaders and staff make sure that the environment is exciting and interesting. As

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11 December 2024 a result, children are busy, occupied, motivated and enthusiastic to learn. Carefully planned activities offer excellent opportunities for children to become involved, play and explore across all areas of learning and development. For example, children find out about mathematical ideas as they try to balance Christmas baubles on top of cardboard tubes or investigate which ones will fit inside the tubes. Staff interactions during these learning opportunities help to extend children's understanding very well. n Staff encourage children's independence extremely well as they support progress in self-help skills. This aspect is very strong and is threaded through the curriculum in every room. For example, to develop the physical skill over time of pouring drinks from jugs, babies reach out and grasp small jugs in sensory play. Toddlers practise this skill as they use large tweezers to pick up items on a table.

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Older children successfully pour themselves a drink during snack time. n Staff provide children with some valuable opportunities for children to develop communication and language skills. Staff are careful to introduce new words during play. They promote children's listening skills through books and children eagerly join in with familiar nursery rhymes as they are sung throughout the day. Staff working with the younger children are not consistent in helping children to make the best possible progress in their communication and language. n Partnerships with parents are supportive, with staff and leaders forging positive relationships. This helps communication about children's development and what is going on at nursery on a daily basis. An online platform keeps parents fully informed about their child's development and well-being. Parents say that they are very happy with the care and education provided at this 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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should:

n support staff working with the younger children to further enhance their communication and language development.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY542850 Local authority Telford & Wrekin Inspection number 10364248 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 128 Number of children on roll 164 Name of registered person Chace Care Limited

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Telephone number

Date of previous inspection 31 January 2019

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Information about this early years setting

Honeybuns Day Nursery registered in 2017. It is one of three nurseries managed by Chace Care Limited. The nursery employs 27 members of childcare staff. Of these, three hold an appropriate early years qualification at level 5, four hold level 4, 13 hold level 3 and five hold level 2. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday all year round. Sessions are from 7.30am to 6pm. The nursery offers government funded places for children aged from nine months to four years.

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Inspection activities

n The inspector conducted a learning walk with the manager. n The inspector and the manager completed a joint observation. n The inspector viewed required documentation. n The inspector spoke with leaders, staff and children. n The inspector observed the quality of teaching and learning.

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Inspection activities

11 December 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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