Kids World Goldthorpe

Inspection of Kids World Goldthorpe Barnburgh Lane, Rotherham S63 9PG

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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 Outstanding

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The provision is good

Children bound into the nursery and receive a friendly, cheerful greeting. They are familiar with consistent daily routines that help them to feel happy and secure. For example, children are eager to choose to play outside or to sit down for breakfast, where they develop their independence skills. For example, children select their preferred food item and pour milk onto their cereal.

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The provision is good

Overall, staff plan effective educational programmes that help children to make good progress and be ready for starting school. For example, children enjoy daily small-group time. They listen to a story and sing songs, which helps to develop their social, speech and listening skills. Staff enthusiastically sing and model actions. They provide props and shorter stories for younger children, which increases the children's enjoyment and engagement. Three- and four-year-old children show particularly high levels of confidence and are engrossed in activities. For example, they develop their imagination skills while moulding dough into different shapes.

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The provision is good

Staff are good role models, who encourage essential social skills. This is reflected in children's very positive behaviour and friendships. For example, children work cooperatively with staff to construct a ball run using plastic guttering and slats of wood. Staff positively reinforce behavioural expectations. For example, they use sand timers to encourage children to learn to take turns and instil the motto of 'choose it, use, it, put it away' to encourage children to help tidy up.

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need to do better?

n Overall, staff plan a broad and stimulating curriculum. Provision has recently been extended to two-year-old children, but curriculum thinking, planning and teaching have not yet been fully adapted. Some activities and care routines do not help younger children to make the best possible progress. n Through their constant assessments, staff swiftly identify and support children with a developmental delay. They put in place excellent early interventions, including meticulous support plans, and work extremely closely with other professionals and parents. Children benefit greatly from small-group or one-to- one sessions in the 'sensory' room. n Staff have an in-depth understanding of the needs of the local community and children's families. They use additional funding well to improve outcomes for children. They work in excellent partnership with other agencies to promote children's safety and welfare. n Children, especially those who prefer to be outside or have less outdoor access

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need to do better?

at home, benefit greatly from free access to the nursery garden. Staff ensure that children develop their skills and extend their learning across the curriculum

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need to do better?

27 March 2025 while playing happily outside. For example, through negotiating the climbing wall, riding on wheeled toys, filling pipettes with water and scooping mud, children develop their physical skills. They engage in early writing using chunky chalks. Staff use made-up songs and narrative during water play, which helps to develop children's mathematical understanding. Children learn about the world around them as they use magnifying glasses to search for, and investigate, insects. n Parents share important information in readiness for children starting nursery. Each child has a key person and is generally very settled. However, staff do not consistently recognise when their key children require additional attention and support from them to help them engage fully in activities and build closer attachments. n Staff continually share children's progress with parents. They encourage parents to support this, for instance through activity sessions and speech and language

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need to do better?

initiatives, such as 'Travelling Ted' and a lending library. n Staff help parents to follow the nursery ethos of promoting healthy eating and children's good oral health. For example, when children do not have the hearty freshly cooked lunch, staff encourage healthy lunch box items and display information about the content sugar in particular foods and drinks. n Staff support children to manage and express their emotions effectively. They read stories and encourage older children to use their words to tell their friends if they do not like something and how this makes them feel. n Staff's qualifications and continued professional development generally have a positive impact on their practice. However, the monitoring of staff's practice is not fully effective or focused in identifying what further training or coaching is needed to improve outcomes for children even further.

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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 adapt the curriculum, planning and teaching so that the individual learning and care needs and interests of two-year-old children are taken into greater account n strengthen the key-person system so that staff consistently provide support for children to promote their engagement and emotional well-being further n improve arrangements for monitoring staff practice and use these to identify and provide well-focused staff training and coaching to improve outcomes for children even further.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY540553 Local authority Barnsley Inspection number 10372596 Type of provision Childcare on non-domestic premises

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Registers

Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register Day care type Full day care

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inspection

Total number of places 30 Number of children on roll 48 Name of registered person Kidsworld-Childcare Ltd

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reference number

Telephone number 01709888983 Date of previous inspection 26 April 2019

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Information about this early years setting

Kids World Goldthorpe registered in 2016 and is operated by a company. The setting employs nine members of childcare staff, eight of whom hold appropriate qualifications. Of these, two hold qualifications at level 2, four hold qualifications at level 3, one has a qualification at level 6 and one staff member holds qualified teacher status. The provider offers government funded childcare and receives specific funding for disadvantaged children.

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Inspection activities

n The inspector observed the safety and suitability of the nursery. n The nursery manager, who is also one of the directors, and the inspector carried out a learning walk together. This helped the inspector to understand how staff, the early years provision and the curriculum are organised. n The inspector observed the quality of education, indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact of this on children's learning. n The inspector and the nursery manager carried out a joint observation of an activity. n The inspector spoke with staff, the children and parents during the inspection. n The inspector held discussions with the nursery manager throughout the inspection. She also spoke with another director, who is also the nominated individual for the company, who was present throughout the inspection. n The inspector sampled relevant documentation during the inspection.

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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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