Shining Stars Day Nursery

Inspection of Shining Stars Day Nursery New Testamant Church Of God, Anglesea Road, London SE18 6EG

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Overall effectiveness Requires improvement

The quality of education Requires improvement Behaviour and attitudes Requires improvement Personal development Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Overall effectiveness at previous inspection Good

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The provision requires improvement

Children are happy and enjoy attending this calm and welcoming nursery. They have positive bonds with their key person and other staff and show they feel safe and secure. Overall, children have positive attitudes towards learning and understand the routine of the nursery well. They enjoy participating in a range of activities both indoors and outside. For instance, they show interest in washing toy babies with bubbles and water and playing in the mud kitchen. These experiences support their imagination well. Children also have fun making play dough. During this activity, children discuss how the play dough smells and feels, and they also develop their hand-to-eye coordination as they mix, roll and knead the dough.

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The provision requires improvement

Although leaders discuss a clear vision for the curriculum, the quality of staff interactions and teaching is variable. Weaknesses in the curriculum, particularly for communication and language, mean that children are not well enough supported to make the progress they are capable of. Some aspects of the curriculum are not well sequenced and sufficiently targeted for all children. For instance, staff do not make appropriate adjustments during activities or consistently plan suitably challenging experiences for older children.

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need to do better?

n Leaders carry out frequent supervision of staff, and systems are in place for monitoring the quality of education. However, this is not fully effective in addressing weaknesses in practice. Staff do not receive targeted support and professional development opportunities to ensure all children develop confidence in their learning. n Teaching is inconsistent. Although staff sit close to children and talk to them, they do not consistently engage children in meaningful conversations and successfully extend children's learning as they play. Children do not hear enough new vocabulary or words to secure their understanding of new concepts. Furthermore, staff do not consistently offer explanations or ask effective questions to support children's thinking skills and own ideas. n Staff complete regular assessments of children's development. Despite this, on occasion, staff do not use this information well enough to plan what some

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children need to learn next. This means that individual children's learning is not always well sequenced and purposefully planned to help them close any gaps in their knowledge and skills over time. Furthermore, this means that information shared with parents is not always sharply focused to best support children's learning at home. n Leaders and staff do not have a strong enough oversight of children who speak English as an additional language or other languages at home. They do not use effective strategies to help them to settle in with ease and to develop their

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25 March 2025 emerging communication skills in English. n Staff are caring towards the children and treat them respectfully. Staff implement positive behaviour strategies, and children behave well and engage positively with the activities on offer. Children show that they are happy and relaxed at the nursery. n Staff make timely referrals and form positive relationships with other professionals to support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. Staff incorporate other agencies' recommendations and advice into their plans to help children that require extra support make progress in relation to their starting points. n Staff promote children's understanding of healthy lifestyles well. Children benefit from nutritious snacks and healthy meals. They also access the outdoor area throughout the day. This supports their physical development, as they have opportunities to climb and throw balls. This promotes children's good health and

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well-being. n Children have opportunities to learn about the wider community when they regularly visit the local library. This helps them to develop an interest in books and stories, which supports their early literacy skills. n Parents speak positively about the nursery and express that their children enjoy attending and that staff know them well. Most parents highlight that they feel well involved in their children's learning and feel the communication from leaders and staff is effective.

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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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Due date

strengthen support for staff to ensure children benefit from quality learning and development experiences that continually improve their knowledge and skills 22/04/2025

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Due date

25 March 2025 improve the curriculum for communication and language to ensure children benefit from consistently high- quality interactions and opportunities to develop their language skills. 22/04/2025

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should:

n improve how assessments are used to plan a well-sequenced curriculum that targets children's individual needs and helps parents to further this development at home n provide greater support to children, particularly those who speak English as an additional language, to further develop their learning.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY501266 Local authority Greenwich Inspection number 10380804 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 40 Number of children on roll 24 Name of registered person Shining Stars Immaculate Ltd

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reference number

Telephone number 07446197572 Date of previous inspection 25 June 2019

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Information about this early years setting

Shining Stars Day Nursery registered in 2016 and is located in the London Borough of Greenwich. The nursery is open Monday to Friday, from 8am to 6pm, all year round. It offers the government funded places for childcare. There are seven staff, including the manager, who work directly with the children. Of these, all have relevant qualifications in childcare at level 6, 3 or 2.

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Inspection activities

n The inspector and manager completed a learning walk together, and the manager talked about the nursery's ethos and curriculum and what they want children to learn. n The inspector observed the quality of teaching, both indoors and outside, and assessed the impact on children's learning. n A number of parents, staff and children were spoken to by the inspector, and their views were taken into account as part of the inspection. n The inspector looked at a range of relevant documentation and reviewed evidence of suitability checks and qualifications 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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