Tiny Toez @ Eastvalley

Inspection of Tiny Toez @ Eastvalley 224-226 Milton Road, Stoke on Trent ST1 6HT

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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 Outstanding

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The provision requires improvement

The quality of teaching and learning that children receive is inconsistent. This is because there is a lack of differentiation in the curriculum. For instance, children of all ages can, at times, access the same learning experience. In addition, although staff provide an array of learning experiences for children, they do not think well enough about what it is that they want children to learn. These weaknesses do not support all children to make the full progress they are capable of. Despite this, children enjoy sensory experiences, such as rice, play dough and sand play. They have fun as they fill and empty containers or pull, stretch and mould the dough. Some staff talk to children about size, shape and numbers as they play.

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The provision requires improvement

Leaders have improved the key-person system. Staff have started to share clearer information with each other as children transition through the nursery. Consequently, staff have a better understanding of their key children's needs. Staff are now very responsive to children, showering them with lots of care and love. Children have developed positive bonds with the staff who care for them. Staff are positive role models to children. They praise children for what they do well and remind them of the rules. Consequently, children behave well.

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need to do better?

n It is clear where leaders have prioritised improvement since their last visit. This is based on their own observations and feedback from others. However, the nursery is still on a journey of improvement. Leaders need to continue to target weaknesses in order to raise the overall quality of the nursery to a good standard. n Leaders have developed a sequenced curriculum. However, staff's knowledge of this needs to improve as they do not implement this curriculum in practice. For example, at times, staff provide some of same learning experiences for babies, toddlers and pre-school children without any natural progression. This does not ensure that children effectively build on what they know and can do over time. n Staff plan a range of learning experiences for children across the nursery. These experiences capture children's interest well. However, the activities on offer can lack purpose, or staff do not think well enough about how they can support

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need to do better?

children to extend their knowledge further. This impacts on the progress that children make in their development. n Leaders and staff use a range of strategies and methods to assess children's speech development. They sing a mixture of well-known rhymes and songs to children. Staff also read stories clearly and with lots of expression. Children enjoy listening to the stories that staff share. n Leaders have made changes to how they monitor staff's practice. They now spend more time in the room observing staff, and provide ongoing feedback.

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need to do better?

29 January 2025 They use this alongside supervisions to identify training needs and support. Staff say that the recent coaching and training that they have received have helped to improve their knowledge and confidence. However, leaders now need to focus on raising staff's teaching practice to ensure that all children consistently receive high-quality teaching and learning experiences. n Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) who have been in the setting for a while, went without receiving the specific and/or specialist help they required. However, leaders have now taken steps to support staff to identify gaps in children's development. They have also improved how they work in partnership with parents and other professionals. Leaders have made referrals, developed recent SEND plans and understand the importance of reviewing and monitoring this closely. This work needs to continue to ensure

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need to do better?

that all children with SEND consistently receive the targeted and specialist help and care they require. n Partnership working with parents has improved. Staff now capture key information about their key children. This has helped to improve their knowledge of the children in their care. Staff and leaders also provide parents with regular updates and information about their child's development. Consequently, parents know how they can support their child's development at home. Parents say that their children like to come to nursery. n Children are provided with a range of balanced and healthy meals. Staff clean and wash children's hands as required. Staff notice and respond immediately to children when they require changing. Children enjoy getting physical as they play outside on the bikes and slide, or as they kick the balls. This all helps to support children's health.

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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

improve staff's knowledge of the curriculum and how they implement it to ensure that it effectively builds on children's knowledge over time 26/03/2025

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Due date

29 January 2025 develop further the use of planning to ensure that it takes into consideration what children already know and what they need to learn next, and extends their knowledge. 26/03/2025

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should:

n continue to enhance and raise the support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities to ensure that they receive the targeted and specialist help they require to enable them to fully thrive n strengthen further the monitoring, support and coaching that staff receive in order to raise the quality of teaching that all children receive to a good level.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 2635824 Local authority Stoke-on-Trent Inspection number 10379989 Type of provision Childcare on non-domestic premises

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Registers

Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register Day care type Full day care

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inspection

Total number of places 90 Number of children on roll 74 Name of registered person Tiny Toez Childrens Day Nurseries Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 01782 265000 Date of previous inspection 27 April 2023

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Information about this early years setting

Tiny Toez @ Eastvalley registered in 2021 and is located in Stoke-on-Trent. The nursery employs 14 members of childcare staff, all of whom hold an appropriate early years qualification at level 3 or above. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday, 7.30am until 6pm, for 51 weeks per year. The nursery provides funded early education for children of all ages.

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Inspection activities

n The manager, deputy manager and inspector completed a learning walk together of all areas of the nursery and discussed the early years curriculum. n Children spoke with the inspector during the inspection. n The inspector talked to staff and parents at appropriate times during the inspection and took account of their views. n Staff spoke to the inspector about how they support children with SEND. 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 manager showed the inspector documentation to demonstrate the suitability of staff.

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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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Inspection activities

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