Queen Bee's Day Nursery

Inspection of Queen Bee's Day Nursery 316-318 London Road, Benfleet, Essex SS7 5XR

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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

The management and their team provide children with a clean, bright and welcoming environment. Children are greeted with genuine warmth and kindness by staff, who are happy to see them. They are supported as they register their attendance. Children demonstrate that they are eager to learn as they leave their parents with ease, settling quickly as they become engrossed in activities offered. Staff plan a varied curriculum around the children's interests and developing needs. They also introduce seasonal topics, such as learning about the weather, acknowledgement of the world around them, and a focus on science. Planned activities around the solar system and planets capture children's interest and curiosity. They happily engage in large group activities such as painting rockets. Staff engage them in conversations. Children recall information previously learned as they name planets, and tell staff that the sun is a star.

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The provision is good

Children are aware of the expectations and rules of the nursery. They positively respond to the requests of staff, for example, when it is time to put things away in preparation for dinner. They listen with intent to instructions, and staff speak respectfully to children. Staff are nurturing, calm and positive role models, and children's behaviour is good. An effective key-person system ensures that the staff know children well. Babies individual routines are followed to ensure they feel safe and secure. They are offered comforters from home and are soothed as they receive cuddles and reassurance when they become tired or upset.

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need to do better?

n Quality of teaching is good. Children are offered an interesting and varied curriculum. Overall, staff plan according to children's interests and what they need to learn next, promoting the skills they need to be independent learners. However, staff plan a curriculum that does not always challenge the most able children to build on what they already know or extend their knowledge to the highest level. n Children's speech and language development is good. They demonstrate that they are confident speakers and engage visitors to the nursery in their games and conversations. They also have opportunities to learn an additional language as they happily engage in weekly French lessons. n Children's participate in organised, interactive singing sessions weekly. They play instruments and use props as they excitedly sing familiar songs. They listen intently and follow instruction. n Parents speak highly of all aspects of the nursery. They comment on the

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need to do better?

professional and committed management and feel they are fully supported and listened too. Parents say their children make good progress as a result of attending the nursery.

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need to do better?

18 February 2025 n The management team are passionate about their role and are committed to improving outcomes for children. They understand the importance of promoting professional development opportunities for the team. Staff speak positively about their roles and say they feel valued and fully supported through the provision of training, supervisions and staff meetings. n Children learn the skills they need that promotes their early writing. For example, they use tweezers with skill in activities as they carefully pick up paper stars from trays. Children can access writing materials to use in their play and have opportunities to make marks as they use large chalks in the garden, drawing patterns on the wall. n Children's learn the importance of staying safe and healthy through daily routines. For example, they are frequently reminded to have a drink and they confidently tell visitors the importance of staying hydrated. They learn about oral

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need to do better?

hygiene and the importance of cleaning teeth through conversations and activities. Children have opportunities to use a soft play room. They develop physical skills as they, run and jump negotiating space so as not to bump into their friends. They use parachutes, and obstacle courses to strengthen balance. n The session runs smoothly throughout the morning, and children are busy in their play. However, the organisation at transition times for younger children, such as nappy changing and mealtimes, means staff are sometimes busy with other tasks and children are not engaged. In addition, there is a lack of comfortable, cosy spaces for babies to sit and relax if needed and organisation of the environment means they cannot easily help themselves to some of the resources.

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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 provide support and training opportunities for staff to ensure they plan a curriculum that offers sufficient challenge for the most able children n improve the organisation of transition times to provide all children with consistent opportunities to be fully engaged in their learning n review the space for babies so that they have a cosy area to relax in and can help themselves to resources to explore and develop their own play and ideas.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY550240 Local authority Essex Inspection number 10372268 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 55 Number of children on roll 126 Name of registered person Queen Bee's Day Nursery Ltd

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reference number

Telephone number 01268928560 Date of previous inspection 9 April 2019

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Information about this early years setting

Queen Bee's Day Nursery registered in 2017. It is situated in Benfleet, Essex. There are 17 members of childcare staff. Of these, 12 hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3. The nursery operates Monday to Friday from 7am until 7pm, all year round, except bank holidays . It provides government funded early education for all eligible children.

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Inspection activities

n The inspector spoke with the staff team during the inspection. n The manager and the inspector completed a learning walk together and discussed the curriculum and what it is that the team want the children to learn. n Parents provided the inspector with written and oral feedback at the inspection. n Children spoke to the inspector during the inspection. n The manager and the inspector carried out a joint observation together. n The inspector looked at relevant documentation and evidence of the suitability of the staff working in the nursery.

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Inspection activities

18 February 2025 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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18 February 2025 regulates and inspects to achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages. It regulates and inspects childcare and children's social care, and inspects the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass), schools, colleges, initial teacher training, further education and skills, adult and community learning, and education and training in prisons and other secure establishments. It assesses council children's services, and inspects services for looked after children, safeguarding and child protection.

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