Kids 1st - Gosforth

Inspection of Kids 1st - Gosforth Jubilee Road, Fawdon, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE3 3PN

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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 are happy, safe and settled in the nursery. They benefit from positive relationships with caring and consistent staff. Children also enjoy friendships with their peers and talk positively about their friends. Children are well behaved and have a good attitude to learning. They engage well and are keen to take part in all available activities. Staff demonstrate that they know the children well

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The provision is good

All children benefit from an ambitious curriculum that is well implemented. The support for children with additional needs is a particular strength of the setting. Some children receive good quality and regular one-to-one support from a familiar key person. All staff demonstrate that they know the children in their care well and plan appropriate learning experiences for them. Staff in the baby rooms ensure that they support children's emotional needs, particularly during settling-in routines and sessions.

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The provision is good

Procedures for dropping-off and collecting children have returned to pre-pandemic routines. This means that parents are welcomed into the building and into their child's base room. This helps staff to develop good partnership working with parents and carers. Parents expressed very positive comments during the inspection and are happy with the care and education their children receive.

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need to do better?

n Staff ensure that there is a strong focus on developing children's language and communication across the setting. As well as speaking and listening, staff also demonstrate simple signs for children to also use from a young age. Staff introduce children to new words, as well as revisiting familiar words, in each activity. n Children show an interest in books, and older children independently narrate stories that staff have read to them. This helps to promote their language and communication and their understanding of the sequence of a story. n Children also engage in lots of mark-making activities, which promotes their hand-eye coordination, fine motor development and early literacy skills. However, not all children can easily access drawing materials when they want them. This impacts on children's independence. n Pre-school children are skilled at managing their own behaviour effectively. For example, they remind each other about sharing and taking turns, which they

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then promptly do, without any adult intervention. This supports a positive and harmonious environment. n Older children play well together in role-play activities and when using real items in the home corner area. For example, they pretend to make orange juice for each other. This promotes their social skills, imagination and language

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13 January 2025 development. n Staff also ensure that children learn about their own emotional well-being. Older children benefit from weekly relaxation sessions where they talk about different feelings and learn how to relax. n Staff ensure that children have interesting opportunities to learn about the wider world. They have trips on the metro to a theatre, visit a local nursing home and learn about different artists and creative styles. n Children have opportunities for learning about early mathematics during the daily routine, for example when counting how many children are going for lunch and when singing number songs and rhymes. However, some adult-led activities to help children learn about shapes and patterns are not sufficiently challenging for the most able children. n Babies benefit from well-thought-out and designed rooms. For example, the layout and resources support babies movement and physical skills. Staff also

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ensure that all children benefit from designated outdoor play areas that are designed to suit their developmental stage. n Older children skilfully negotiate space and avoid obstacles when whizzing around on bicycles outside. Their physical development is also promoted when they roll and catch balls, blow bubbles, jump and hop. n Staff also extend indoor learning to the outside environment to build on children's curiosity. For example, children have been learning about dinosaurs, and older children enthusiastically dig for hidden 'dinosaur bones' in the outdoor sand tray. n Staff benefit from strong and supportive leadership and management. They also have good access to ongoing training and development courses, which supports positive outcomes for children.

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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 promote children's independence further, for example, by ensuring they can easily access drawing materials when they want to n adapt some adult led activities to ensure they are sufficiently challenging for most-able children.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY409431 Local authority Newcastle upon Tyne Inspection number 10378785 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 108 Number of children on roll 196 Name of registered person Busy Bees Nurseries Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 0191 284 4865 Date of previous inspection 6 December 2019

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Information about this early years setting

Kids 1st - Gosforth registered in 2010. The nursery employs 33 members of childcare staff. Of these, six staff hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 2, 17 staff have a level 3 qualification, one staff member has level 5 and there is also a member of staff with an early years professional status qualification and one with a qualified teacher status. The nursery is open each weekday, from 7.30am until 6pm, all year round, except for bank holidays. It is registered for the government's early years childcare funding.

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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 the children to learn. 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 carried out a joint observation of group activity with the manager. n Children told the inspector about their friends and what they like to do when they are at nursery. n The inspector talked to staff at appropriate times during the inspection and took account of their views. n The inspector spoke with the manager about the leadership and management of the setting. n Staff spoke to the inspector about how they support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. n The inspector spoke to several parents during the inspection and viewed some written comments from parents and took account of their views.

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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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