Bumble Bees Private Day Nursery School

Inspection of Bumble Bees Private Day Nursery School 47 Station Road, Paddock Wood, Tonbridge TN12 6AB

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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 Not applicable

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The provision is good

Children and their families are at the heart of this happy and family focused setting. The long-standing staff team is highly committed and dedicated to ensuring that they provide high-quality care and education. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) benefit from very kind and caring staff who know them incredibly well. For example, staff ensure that small groups of children have access to different rooms, uniquely set up to develop children's interests in creativity, mathematics and literacy. Children thoroughly enjoy exploring the role- play area, spending time making pretend cakes for their friends and developing their imagination. Staff provide children with a range of activities and experiences to support their understanding of others. Children learn about their friends' needs through puppets and stories to support their wider understanding. They celebrate their friends' cultures and learn about others positively. This means children learn

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The provision is good

to be very inclusive and to value and respect their friends and their families.

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The provision is good

Staff plan an ambitious curriculum based on children's needs, interests and ages. Older children delight in listening to rhymes and songs. They excitedly join in making different movements to music, developing their physical and social skills well. Younger children enjoy exploring paints and water play, developing their concentration and perseverance. Babies enjoy exploring musical instruments, encouraging their listening and attention skills effectively. Staff praise and encourage children regularly. As such, children demonstrate very good behaviour. They remind adults to take care, showing that they know how to keep themselves and others safe. Children have developed very strong bonds with staff and each other. All children make good progress.

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n Staff encourage children to behave very well. Children delight in taking home 'Bumble Bee' certificates to celebrate awards they have achieved with their families. Staff are good role models, showing genuine interest in children and celebrating their achievements with them. This helps to promote children's emotional well-being and positive attitudes to learning successfully. n Staff help children to learn about good oral health. They support children's understanding of how to use timers to learn how long to brush their teeth for. Children chatter about their different toothbrushes, using language such as a 'manual' after listening to a story, supporting their understanding well. n Staff provide children with a rich range of activities to develop their literacy and language. They provide children with rhymes and songs to support their developing letter sound recognition. Staff model sign language with babies to

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support their communication and understanding skills effectively. n Children benefit from opportunities to make their own choices, for example,

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20 February 2025 about what they want to do and play with. However, at times, staff do things for children that they could attempt themselves, such as wiping their own hands and faces and putting on their shoes. This, at times, limits opportunities children have to attempt things for themselves to support their developing skills. n Children benefit from activities that develop their mathematical understanding. They support children to extend their learning, for example, by counting days of the week and months of the year, modelling how to use their fingers to add the totals together. This helps develop children's thinking effectively. n Staff are passionate about supporting children's knowledge of caring for the natural world. Staff encourage children to learn about recycling. They use resources in creative ways to be sustainable. This encourages children to learn to care for the world around them. n Children demonstrate that they know routines well. They immediately join in

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with staff to go on an adventure, learning about different animals and their young. However, at times, quieter children are not always consistently supported to take an active part in larger-group activities. This, at times, impacts on their engagement in learning. n Children with SEND are very well supported. For example, staff undertake specific training to accommodate individual needs. Staff use information from parents and other professionals effectively to identify and plan for children's next steps in learning. Babies settle very well and are cuddled and comforted by nurturing staff who know them well. Staff work very closely with local schools and other agencies to ensure that children are incredibly well prepared for school. n Leaders and managers are passionate and proactive. They prioritise staff's well- being, and staff are well trained and qualified. Staff love their jobs. They genuinely care for children and their families. For example, staff take part in

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fundraising to draw attention to and support local needs. n Relationships with parents are excellent. Detailed information is provided for them about their children's learning and development and how to support learning further at home. Parents appreciate the different ways the setting helps them access information to help them seek further support, such as posters and electronic information. They report that staff go above and beyond to help them and their children.

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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:

20 February 2025 n support staff to identify when they can further enhance opportunities for children to do things for themselves to support their developing independence skills n strengthen staff's skills in including all children in planned activities and ensuring that everyone can take an active part.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 2807482 Local authority Kent Inspection number 10364962 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 58 Number of children on roll 72 Name of registered person Bumble Bees Private Day Nursery School Ltd

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reference number

Telephone number 01892 835502 Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Information about this early years setting

Bumble Bees Private Day Nursery School registered in 2024. It is based in Paddock Wood, Tonbridge. It operates Monday to Friday, from 8am until 6pm, all year round. The setting employs 19 members of childcare staff. All of whom hold a relevant early years qualification at level 3 or above. The setting provides funded places for two-, three- and four-year-old children.

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Inspection activities

n Leaders and managers joined the inspector on a learning walk and talked to the inspector about their curriculum and what they want their children to learn. n The inspector spoke to children to find out about their time at the setting. n The inspector talked to staff at appropriate times during the inspection and took account of their views. n The inspector spoke with the nominated individual about the leadership and management of the setting. 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 inspector carried out a joint observation of a communication and language activity with the manager. n Parents shared their views of the setting with the inspector.

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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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