Upton Daycare

Inspection of Upton Daycare Upton Primary School, Waggon Lane, Upton, Pontefract WF9 1JS

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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 and settled at this friendly and welcoming setting. Staff create a supportive and secure environment for children. They take time to find out about children and their families. Staff encourage children to share what they have been doing at home with their friends and staff. Children demonstrate good behaviour as they listen to instructions, take turns and line up to wait their turn to get their coats ready for outdoor play. Children learn how to use their 'walking feet' to keep themselves safe inside the nursery.

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The provision is good

Staff teach children to be independent as they put on and take off their own coats and hang them on their pegs. Children use the toilet and wash their hands unsupervised and safely use scissors independently. Staff offer lots of warm praise and encouragement. Staff encourage children to recall and sing familiar songs as they take turns to choose which song they would like to sing. Children listen carefully and follow staff's actions as they join in and sing favourite songs with great enthusiasm.

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The provision is good

Strong attachments with staff support children's emotional well-being as they safely explore the nursery. Staff continuously build on children's communication and language as they share and repeat new words, such as about volcanoes and lava, when children play with dough. Staff ask children open questions to extend their learning and give them the time they need to respond.

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n Staff provide well-planned and carefully thought out activities for children to help support their learning based on what children know and can do and their interests. Children show good levels of engagement in their play for sustained periods. For example, children enjoy playing in the water tray and learning about sea creatures. n Staff provide good routines at the nursery. Children are familiar with these routines and anticipate what is happening now and next. Staff engage children well as they enthusiastically read a story about feelings and then ask each child about their own feelings. n There is an ambitious curriculum in place for all children. Staff support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) well and staff fully understand their needs. However, they do not embed numbers and mathematical language into children's everyday learning to support them to count and develop their understanding of mathematical concepts during their

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play. n Leaders are highly qualified, knowledgeable and ambitious. They regularly reflect on the service they provide to families by carrying out parents' questionnaires.

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need to do better?

13 February 2025 Staff receive regular support and training to help them to develop practice. Staff express that they are happy and well supported in their roles. This creates a positive atmosphere for children to learn in. n Staff build strong bonds with parents and carers. They use an online app and face-to-face communication to keep parents informed about their children's progress and care. Staff give children suggestions for '50 things to do before they are five' and encourage them to complete the activities with their parents. Children share what they have done with their peers at circle time and receive a small prize when they complete five things. Parents speak highly of managers and staff, and feel that they are extremely supportive. n Overall, the nursery extends children's cultural capital, such as by taking them on visits in the community to the library, park and shops to buy ingredients for

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baking. It has strong links to the community and staff organise visits from postal workers, police officers and dental nurses. However, while the nursery does explore some cultural and religious festivals with children, staff do not embed diversity into everyday practice to help extend children's understanding of life in modern day Britain. n The nursery promotes healthy lifestyles with children. Staff encourage healthy eating, good oral hygiene and give children the opportunities to improve their physical skills. For example, children climb on and roll large tyres, kick footballs and balance on beams in the garden. n Staff support children who speak English as an additional language well. When children first start at nursery, they are given a key worker who supports them to use their home languages as well as learning English. This helps to settle children and for them to build attachments.

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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 develop the implementation of the mathematics curriculum to extend children's understanding of numbers, counting and develop their understanding of mathematical language and concepts n strengthen the teaching of diversity throughout the setting to extend children's understanding of life in modern Britain.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY544685 Local authority Wakefield Inspection number 10380327 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 18 Number of children on roll 49 Name of registered person Cubs Daycare Ltd

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reference number

Telephone number 01977 645693 Date of previous inspection 5 June 2019

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Information about this early years setting

Upton Daycare registered in 2017 and is located in Wakefield. The nursery employs five members of childcare staff, all of whom hold an appropriate early years qualification at level 3 or higher, including two staff at level 4 and one member of staff at level 5. The nursery opens during term time, from 8am to 4.30pm, Monday to Friday. It provides government funded childcare.

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Inspection activities

n The inspector viewed the provision and discussed the safety and suitability of the premises. n The manager and inspector completed a learning walk together of all areas of the nursery and discussed the early years curriculum. 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 special educational needs coordinator 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 on children's learning. n The inspector carried out a joint observation of a communication and language activity with the manager. n The inspector spoke to several parents during the inspection and took account of their views. n The inspector looked at relevant documentation and reviewed evidence of the

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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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