Kingswood Community Nursery

Inspection of Kingswood Community Nursery Alberta Close, Corby NN18 9HU

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Inspection date: 20 September 2024 - 5 February 2025

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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 Outstanding

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The provision is good

Children are looked after by kind and caring staff and develop strong relationships with their key persons. Children who are new to the setting settle quickly and enjoy spending time with their new friends. Daily routines are well established, and children demonstrate their understanding of these as they collect their coats before going outside and wash their hands before sitting down for snacks. Simple and effective methods are used to promote children's independence. Children, with the support of staff, select their name from the wall to self-register for their snack, pour their own drinks and choose what they want to eat.

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The provision is good

Children benefit from sensitive interactions with staff, who deploy themselves well to meet their care and learning needs and to ensure that they are kept safe. All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, benefit equally from the well-planned and carefully resourced environment. Children confidently explore the indoor and outdoor environment and choose what they want to play with.

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The provision is good

Overall, children behave well, and staff work hard to implement strategies with children that support them to regulate their own behaviour. Staff are good role models and help children understand their behaviours and what is expected of them. For example, as children play alongside their friends in the garden, they learn to share their favourite construction toys. Staff sit with children and support them to understand the concept of waiting for their turn. Children develop a love of books. They access these independently and enjoy turning the pages and looking at the pictures.

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need to do better?

n Leaders describe a strong curriculum intent for the children in the setting. At times, during the first inspection visit, staff were unclear about what they wanted children to learn from some of the activities they had planned. During the second visit, staff were able to articulate how they used the planned activities and available resources to support individual children in achieving their next steps in learning. In the time that has elapsed between the two visits, there have been some changes to the staff team, with some staff being brought in from their sister nursery and others recruited. Leaders are confident that the new staff have and will bring sustained improvement to reduce the variability in practice in the implementation of the curriculum. n Staff support children's communication and language as they sing songs and action rhymes with children. There is a constant buzz of conversation in the

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need to do better?

setting as staff and children play together. Staff enthusiastically share how some children have developed their vocabulary since coming into the nursery. While,

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need to do better?

20 September 2024 at times, some staff use long and complex sentences with children, overall these do not detract from the learning. During activities, such as face painting, children are encouraged to explain how they would like their face to look and spend extended periods discussing how a tiger or cat might look. This same activity is skilfully and successfully used to help other children learn about turn- taking. n Staff are passionate about the setting and the children they care for. The special educational needs and disabilities coordinator has worked with staff, and they now work together to provide children with strong support overall. There is a real focus on doing the right thing for the children in their care. For example, they work with families and advocate for children with other professionals to ensure that children's transitions to their next stage of education are effectively managed. Children who come into nursery with lower than average attainment

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are helped and supported to close the gaps in their learning. n Staff develop children's understanding of what is appropriate behaviour. For example, they remind them to use 'walking feet' when they run indoors. They offer children praise, such as 'good cutting', when attempting to cut their fruit at snack time. Staff help children to use their 'kind hands' and 'kind words' as they play together making marks in the wet mud. n Staff support children's good health. Children follow good daily hygiene routines and recognise when they need to wash their hands after digging for worms and insects in the garden. Children have many opportunities to develop their physical skills as they enjoy playing outside and spending time in the fresh air. For example, children enjoy playing on the trikes and climbing up the steps to come down the slide. n Staff develop strong partnerships with parents. They share information about

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their children's day as parents pick them up at the end of the session. Parents report that they find the online learning journal helpful and know who to contact if they need more information about their child's progress in the setting. n Staff access different training opportunities and benefit from managers offering ongoing supervision and mentoring sessions. Staff feel supported by management and enjoy working in the setting. n Staff support children in doing things for themselves. Children enjoy the opportunity to help themselves to the snack food available. They eagerly select fruit or pour out cereal into their bowls before they begin eating. Staff remind children to use cutlery to feed themselves to help them develop these skills. Once children are full, they tidy away their cups, bowls and plates.

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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 continue to build a staff team of highly competent early years practitioners so that the curriculum intent and implementation are embedded securely and consistently and meet the needs of all children.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY537251 Local authority North Northamptonshire Inspection number 10338357 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 26 Number of children on roll 23

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Name of registered person

Pen Green Centre for Children and Families Governing Body

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reference number

Telephone number 01536 747508 Date of previous inspection 25 September 2018

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Information about this early years setting

Kingswood Community Nursery registered in 2016 and is located in Corby, Northampton. The nursery employs seven members of childcare staff. Of these, one is unqualified, two hold a qualification at level 3, one at level 4, two at level 5, one at level 6 and one has qualified teacher status. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday, during term time. Sessions are from 9am until midday and from 1pm until 4pm. The nursery provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.

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Inspection activities

n The inspection started on 20 September 2024. Inspectors returned on 5 February 2025 to gather additional evidence in line with Ofsted inspections and visits: Deferring, pausing and gathering additional evidence policy. n On 20 September 2024, the managers and an inspector completed a learning walk together of all areas of the nursery and discussed the early years curriculum. They also carried out a joint observation of a group activity. n The inspectors observed the quality of education being provided, indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact that this was having on children's learning. n Parents shared their views of the nursery with an inspector. n An inspector looked at relevant documentation and reviewed evidence of the suitability of staff working in the nursery. n The inspectors talked to staff at appropriate times during the inspection and took account of their views.

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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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