Nellie's Nursery

Inspection of Nellie's Nursery Thickthorn Farm, Norwich Road, Hethersett, Norwich NR9 3AU

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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 Good

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The provision is good

Children enthusiastically enter the nursery and are greeted by caring staff, who are attentive to their needs and help them settle in. Staff implement a very effective system, which ensures children build strong and trusting attachments with their key persons. If children are upset, they go to them and are reassured and comforted. Parents involvement is prioritised from the beginning. Staff work collaboratively and gather ongoing, in-depth information about individual children. Because of this, children benefit from a bespoke curriculum where staff consistently plan most learning experiences that meet the specific needs of all children. Consequently, all children and babies make good progress from their starting points in all areas of learning and development.

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The provision is good

Regular and fun, indoor and outdoor exercise bolsters children's physical health and mental well-being. Children enjoy bat and ball games, practising their hand-eye coordination and consolidating friendships through turn taking. Staff set up obstacle courses for children to explore. Children run, jump and climb confidently, developing their large-motor skills. Babies develop their independence gradually, as staff encourage them to find their shoes before going outdoors. Conscientious staff remind children that the icy weather makes the ground slippery. Pre-school children show they are learning to risk assess themselves, by walking carefully outdoors to minimise any accidents.

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n Overall, teaching is good quality. Staff plan fortnightly topics, such as learning about emotions. Staff use children's interests and knowledge of their home lives to ensure their teaching and interactions meaningfully build connections in children's learning. For example, during children's role play, staff ask if their 'baby' is feeling happy or sad. Through reciprocal discussions children start to develop a deeper understanding of their feelings and the various factors that trigger them. For example, children tell staff their 'babies' are not sad anymore because they have been fed and slept well. n The support provided for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, is highly effective. The dedicated management team and staff support parents with any referrals and put robust plans in place to help close any gaps in children's learning. Collaborative working with external agencies and

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one-to-one focused support for children means they are thriving. n Throughout the nursery, staff provide group learning opportunities that support children's important social skills, such as listening and communicating effectively with one another. Occasionally, staff do not consider the planning of some group activities well enough to ensure all children's learning needs are fully met. n Parents report how they feel their children have made very good progress since

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29 November 2024 attending the nursery, especially in their speech and language development. They explain how transitions through each room are seamless because of the nurturing and conscientious staff supporting this. Parents appreciate the excellent, daily, online and face-to-face communication throughout the day. As a result, they feel they know how to further support their child's learning at home. n Staff understand the importance of children managing their personal needs and encourage children to wash hands before eating and after playing outdoors. However, staff have not considered how they can encourage children to keep practising their self-care routines to help them become increasingly independent as part of being ready for school. n Children are extremely well behaved and frequently show respectful behaviours to others as they play cooperatively. Children are polite and mostly say 'thank you' without prompting. Staff praise these good manners and embed this

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expectation by singing a 'please' and 'thank you' song with children at mealtimes. n Babies and children develop a love of reading. Babies enjoy feeling textured books and learn single words swiftly. Children bring stories to life as they dress up in book characters and retell familiar and favourite stories. They express themselves and develop their imagination to support their early literacy skills. n Staff sit alongside babies, providing good eye contact and role modelling actions, which encourage their participation in familiar rhymes and songs. Babies join in and build on their vocabulary and language development. They start to develop confidence to make their own choices of songs they would like to sing with gentle encouragement from staff.

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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 review the organisation of adult-led group activities to make sure that learning is consistently purposeful for all children n help staff to consider how they can build on encouraging children to continually practise their self-care routines and become successful in attending to their personal needs.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY542264 Local authority Norfolk Inspection number 10367684 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 92 Number of children on roll 93 Name of registered person Nellie's Nursery Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 01603 927450 Date of previous inspection 19 February 2019

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Information about this early years setting

Nellie's Nursery registered in 2017. The nursery employs 26 members of childcare staff and a cook. Of these, 17 staff hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3 or above, including one with early years professional status. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday for 51 weeks a year. Sessions are from 7.30am until 6pm. The nursery provides funded early education for all eligible children.

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Inspection activities

n The manager and the inspector completed a tour of the nursery, both indoors and outdoors, to understand how the early years provision and curriculum are organised. Additionally, the manager showed the inspector the premises and discussed how they ensure they are safe and suitable. n The inspector observed the quality of teaching during activities indoors and outdoors and assessed the impact that this has on children's learning. n The inspector carried out joint observations of group activities with the manager and also discussed self-evaluation. n Children communicated with the inspector during the inspection. The inspector spoke with parents and carers during the inspection and took account of their views. n The inspector held a meeting with the management team and also discussed self-evaluation. The inspector looked at relevant documentation, such as evidence of the suitability of the staff working in the nursery and a selection of

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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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