Adorables Day Nursery

Inspection of Adorables Day Nursery 7 Chapel Lane, Blisworth, NORTHAMPTON NN7 3BU

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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 Inadequate

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The provision is good

Older children are happy and excited when they arrive at the nursery. Younger children, who are reluctant to leave parents, soon settle and become immersed in self-chosen play. Children build strong bonds with the nurturing and supportive staff. Younger children go to staff for reassurance and cuddles when they feel unsure about new people in the nursery. Staff are positive role models and have high expectations for children's behaviour. Children listen to staff and understand what is expected of them. They are supported to share and take turns from a young age, and they are praised highly when they do this.

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The provision is good

Staff incorporate a strong curriculum for mathematics into everyday play opportunities to maximise children's learning. Children recognise and name numbers on cars. They can count how many items they have threaded onto string and know how many 'one more' will make.

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The provision is good

Children play well, either alone or with their friends. They show good imagination as they pretend to be ill in the role-play hospital. They assure their friends that giving them an injection will not hurt them. Staff help children to develop good physical skills, and children love to be outside. They show good coordination and control as they use wheeled toys confidently, moving them easily backwards and forwards. Younger children are supported to climb small steps and carefully move down slides.

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need to do better?

n Since the last inspection, the provider/manager has ensured that the action raised has been addressed. She has offered training to everyone to ensure that all adults working in the nursery know how to address any safeguarding concerns, in order to keep children safe. n Overall, staff ensure that all children develop confidence in their speaking skills. Older children converse well with staff, peers and visitors to the setting, using good back-and-forth conversation. Babies begin to babble and show they understand songs as they mimic the actions that staff do. However, support for children's speaking skills, particularly those children who speak English as an additional language, is not yet fully developed to help them to build even better speaking skills. Staff do not always recognise the benefit of using children's dominant language to support children's understanding further. n Overall, the curriculum is carefully planned to support and reflect the individual

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need to do better?

needs of children and what they need to learn next. This helps most children to focus and become involved in their play. However, occasionally, activities are too challenging for some children, which means they struggle to do what staff want them to do. For example, a writing activity is offered, but not all children can

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need to do better?

1 April 2025 hold the pencil appropriately and so struggle to participate. n Staff help children to learn how to complete tasks on their own, for example putting on their own coats and shoes for outdoor play, pouring drinks at snack time, spreading their own butter on toast and cutting up fruit. Children are praised highly for this, which contributes to raising children's self-esteem and confidence and gives them key skills in readiness for school. n Staff support children to develop a love of reading. Children of all ages listen well to stories read by staff. They look at books of their choosing independently or with their friends. Staff plan many activities to support children's early writing skills. For example, children skilfully thread beads onto string, while younger children have fun making marks with water and brushes. n Leaders prioritise partnerships with parents. Effective settling-in procedures

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need to do better?

ensure that key persons forge meaningful relationships with parents from the start. Parents are extremely appreciative of the care and support that they and their children receive. Staff provide parents with regular updates about children's learning and development through daily discussions and an online communication system. n The provider/manager takes time to evaluate the provision on offer to children. She offers regular supervision to staff and encourages them to attend training to help with specific areas of children's development, for example how to manage children who bite, which has had a positive impact on children's behaviour. However, leaders do not coach and monitor staff's practice robustly enough to ensure that their teaching skills fully maximise children's learning at every opportunity.

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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 help staff to recognise and use every opportunity to support children to develop and use their growing vocabulary and language skills, particularly for those children who speak English as an additional language n support staff to focus more precisely on the individual learning needs of children to be sure that activities are pitched appropriately, particularly during adult-led activities n improve the coaching and mentoring arrangements for individual staff to raise the quality of interactions across the setting to consistently maximise children's learning experiences.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY416775 Local authority West Northamptonshire Inspection number 10374441 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 27 Number of children on roll 42 Name of registered person Adorables Day Nursery Ltd

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reference number

Telephone number 01604 859 471 Date of previous inspection 7 October 2024

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Information about this early years setting

Adorables Day Nursery registered in 2010 and is located in Blisworth, Northamptonshire. The nursery employs five members of childcare staff. Of whom, all hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 2, 3 and 4 or above. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday, for 50 weeks of the year. Sessions are from 7.30am until 6pm. The nursery provides government funded places for children aged from nine months up to four years.

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Inspection activities

n The manager joined the inspector on a learning walk and discussed the curriculum and what they want children to learn. n The inspector viewed the provision and discussed the safety and suitability of the premises. n The inspector carried out a joint observation with the deputy manager. n Children and staff spoke to the inspector during the inspection. 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 Parents shared their views of the nursery with the inspector. n The inspector confirmed the suitability of staff working in the nursery.

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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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