Busy Bees Day Nursery at Bristol, Portishead

Inspection of Busy Bees Day Nursery at Bristol, Portishead Serbert Road, Gordano Gate, Portishead BS20 7GF

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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

Leaders welcome children and parents on arrival, so children arrive happy and are confident in the setting. Staff provide an exciting environment, which provokes children's curiosity and engages them in activities straight away. For example, children are eager to plant seeds in pots they have previously made. They understand what the seeds need to grow and discuss what the different seeds will look like. Children use mathematical language and share the resources with their friends.

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The provision is good

The provider has devised an ambitious curriculum, focusing on embedding children's prime areas of development and promoting their positive attitudes to learning. Overall, staff implement this successfully, providing consistently good- quality teaching. Children have good opportunities for outdoor learning, where they extend their physical development and awareness of the importance of exercise.

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The provision is good

Children behave well and understand the adults' expectations. From babies, children develop strong bonds with their key person, ensuring they feel emotionally secure. This underpins their ability to learn and develop successfully. Staff get to know the children well, making effective use of children's interests to motivate their learning. They build on what children can already do, enabling them to gain the knowledge and skills they need, ready for school.

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need to do better?

n Staff support children's independence successfully throughout the nursery. This was a recommendation at their last inspection. For babies, they have hygiene stations where they can access tissues. Toddlers learn to serve themselves breakfast and pour drinks, ensuring that by pre-school children manage as much as they can for themselves. n Staff provide good opportunities for children to engage in social interactions, helping them to understand and manage their emotions appropriately. Staff are gentle with babies, provide good role models and help young children to learn to share. Older children value other people's differences, while gaining a positive awareness of their own uniqueness. Children who speak English as an additional language have good opportunities to hear and use their first language, as well as use resources that represent their backgrounds. n Staff provide good support for children to develop their language and

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communication skills. They respond well to babies' babbling and provide narratives for their play. They use books, songs and rhymes, for children to remember phrases and learn new vocabulary. Staff give children clear explanations and enough time to think and respond to questions, such as asking older children what imagination or predict means. However, occasionally they

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need to do better?

12 March 2025 miss young children's non-verbal attempts to make their needs known. n Children benefit from small-group activities, where their key person plans for their specific next stages of learning. For example, older children become engrossed in a fun activity helping them to understand the importance of hygiene. However, high noise levels in pre-school and toddlers means that some children become distracted and cannot listen and concentrate fully. n Leaders monitor the quality of the provision well and implement new initiatives to benefit the children. For example, they have developed a nurture room for older toddlers, to help prepare them for the larger pre-school room. Staff ensure all children, including those with special educational needs and or disabilities (SEND), move up only when feeling secure enough. Staff comment on how much they enjoy working at the setting and the good support they receive from

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need to do better?

leaders. n Leaders use funding effectively to motivate and support individual children to make the best progress they can. Those responsible for overseeing the development of children with SEND, closely monitor the effective implementation of children's targets and share this regularly with parents. Staff training helps to develop staff skills, to have the greatest impact on children's development, such as sign language and an awareness of autism. n Parents confirm how well leaders and staff work in partnership with them. For example, they share information on babies' routines, working together closely with potty training and supporting children's next stages of development. Parents comment on the kind and caring staff, who are incredibly supportive to not only their children but to them also.

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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 improve the organisation of group-time activities, to enable all children to listen and concentrate fully n extend staff's awareness of recognising young children's non-verbal communications, to meet their needs even more successfully.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY252071 Local authority North Somerset Inspection number 10380320 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 91 Number of children on roll 110 Name of registered person Busy Bees Nurseries Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 01275 847275 Date of previous inspection 5 June 2019

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Information about this early years setting

Busy Bees Day Nursery at Bristol Portishead registered in 2003 and is one of several nurseries owned by Busy Bees Ltd. The nursery is situated on the outskirts of Portishead, North Somerset. It opens each weekday throughout the year, except for bank holidays, and operates from 7.30am to 6pm. The nursery employs 27 members of staff to work directly with the children. Of these, one hold early years teacher status. Eleven members of staff hold an appropriate early years qualification at level 3 and five at level 2. They are supported by head office staff. The nursery receives government funding.

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Information about this inspection

Inspectors Elaine Douglas Chelsea Woollard

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Inspection activities

n The manager and inspectors completed a learning walk together and discussed the early years curriculum. n The inspectors talked to staff at convenient times and observed the quality of teaching, indoors and outdoors, assessing the impact this was having on children's learning. n The manager and lead inspector conducted a joint observation of the quality of teaching and learning, during an adult-led activity with a small group of older children. n The inspectors spoke with parents and children, taking account of all their views. n The manager, area director, quality lead and inspectors discussed the leadership of the setting, and the inspector sampled documentation, including evidence of the suitability of staff.

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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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