Tiny Heroes Elmers End

Inspection of Tiny Heroes Elmers End 185 Elmers End Road, Beckenham, Kent BR3 4EH

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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 in this welcoming nursery. They show secure relationships with each other and staff. Children actively share and take turns during play, building friendships and positive attitudes to learning. For example, during outside play, older children ask each other if they can have a turn to sit on the roundabout and willingly swap places. They discuss whose turn it is to push and they stop when someone wants to get off. This shows they understand how to use the equipment safely and show consideration for others.

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The provision is good

Children benefit from a broad and balanced curriculum, including regular outings in the local community. Inclusion is promoted exceptionally well. As a result, children show high levels of acceptance and support towards each other, including children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). This creates a productive learning environment for all children. Staff use their knowledge of what children can already do and plan activities that meet their individual learning needs and interests. As a result, all children make good progress from their starting points. Staff support children well in gaining personal independence, including skills such as feeding themselves, toileting and putting on their coats and shoes. Older children make choices during play and show good early literacy skills. This helps prepare them for the next stage in their education.

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n Leaders and managers implement effective staff supervision procedures and regular team meetings. This enables staff to share ideas and promotes their individual continuous personal development through training and support. As a result, staff work cooperatively together, ensuring they are well deployed to support children's needs. n Staff plan activities using exciting topic themes as a focus, relating to storybooks, artists, festivals and children's interests. For example, when learning about the solar system, children enjoy dressing up as astronauts and aliens. Guided by staff, they pretend to go to the moon in the large cardboard rocket they have made and painted. They sing songs about the moon and confidently talk about the planets. This helps children consolidate their learning effectively. Children enjoy the adult-led creative activities, although opportunities to develop their free creative expression in their artwork are less well promoted.

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n Children show a good understanding of expectations of their behaviour. For example, during outings, older children walk sensibly to the park and follow staff's instructions well. Staff seize every moment to talk to children about interesting things they see along the way and everyday events. This sparks meaningful discussions as children talk about their pets, homes and families. Consequently, children's understanding of the world and their language skills are

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6 February 2025 extended further. n Parents appreciate the opportunities to attend regular events, such as parents' evenings and stay-and-play sessions. Parents say they receive lots of information about their children's progress and that their children are happy, have gained confidence, and their communication and language skills have improved. n Children enjoy a balanced diet of freshly prepared meals. They talk about the foods they like to eat and how older children enjoy being the 'helper of the day'. Children mainly enjoy relaxed and sociable mealtimes. However, mealtimes in the baby room are sometimes less well organised, resulting in more staff movement and less settled and engaging experiences for children. n Staff actively promote children's good health. They have completed relevant training and reviewed their sickness and medication policy. Staff gather all required information from parents about children's medication and promptly

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share information about any accidents. These embedded systems of partnership working promote children's welfare. n Toddlers concentrate well while learning about shapes. Staff talk about the shapes and they count the sides of each shape together to help children identify them. Children carefully add the glue and match the shapes to their stencil. Their language skills are extended further as they make good attempts to name the shapes with staff and enjoy staff's praise for their efforts and achievements. n Babies enjoy music time and clap and jig while staff sing and play the guitar. They actively copy when staff say and use signs, for example when asking for 'more' pizza and fruits at teatime. This successfully helps their communication skills. n Staff show high regard for working in partnership with parents, especially regarding the early identification of any SEND. As a result, parents gain access

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need to do better?

to appropriate services for their children, and staff work with other agencies to ensure children's individual needs are met effectively.

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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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n consider ways to provide more opportunities for children to develop their free creative expression, for example, during creative activities and drawing n review mealtimes for the youngest children to provide them with a more settled and engaging experience.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 2597826 Local authority Bromley Inspection number 10354670 Type of provision Childcare on non-domestic premises Registers Early Years Register Day care type Full day care

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inspection

Total number of places 42 Number of children on roll 54 Name of registered person Tiny Heroes Day Nursery Ltd

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reference number

Telephone number 0208 658 6222 Date of previous inspection 1 December 2022

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Information about this early years setting

Tiny Heroes Elmers End registered in 2020. The nursery is located in the London Borough of Bromley. The nursery is open from 8am to 6pm, all year round. The nursery employs 14 members of staff. The manager holds a level 5 qualification, 10 staff hold relevant level 3 qualifications, and two staff are unqualified and working towards their level 3 qualifications. The nursery also employs a cook. The nursery offers the government funded places for childcare.

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Inspection activities

n The manager completed a learning walk with the inspector and discussed the curriculum they offer and how the setting is organised. n The inspector held discussions with staff, parents and the children and took account of their views. n The inspector sampled a range of required documents, including children's records and staff's suitability checks and qualifications. n The inspector accompanied staff and children on an outing and observed the impact on children's learning. n The inspector and the manager completed a joint observation of staff during an activity and assessed the impact of teaching on children's learning.

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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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