Luans Little People Day Nursery

Inspection of Luans Little People Day Nursery Bassetlaw District General Hospital, Kilton Hill, Worksop S81 0BD

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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

Children are confident to leave their parents at the door when they arrive. Staff warmly greet them, helping children to have a sense of belonging in the nursery. If children are unsettled, staff are nurturing and redirect their attention to toys and resources. This results in children settling quickly. Children are encouraged by staff to be independent. For instance, younger children learn how to use knives safely to cut bananas. Older children put on their own shoes and serve their own meals.

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The provision is good

Staff support children to develop their physical skills. For example, staff give children pipettes to squeeze. Children transfer coloured water from one container to another. This helps them to strengthen the muscles in their hands to support early writing skills. Younger children show a keen interest in books. Staff respond by reading stories and encouraging children to point to different images on the pages, helping them to follow the story and concentrate. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are supported well by staff. For example, staff read stories to children about monsters that show different colours for their feelings, helping them to understand their emotions. Children say that their feelings are all mixed up.

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need to do better?

n Staff provide opportunities for children to learn how healthy food grows. For example, they take older children to an allotment where they learn how to plant vegetables. This is further promoted when children plant vegetables and flowers in the nursery garden. Children tell visitors that they grow raspberries, onions and carrots and that the flowers smell sweet. n Staff plan a curriculum that enables children to progress in their learning and follow their interests. For example, when children show an interest in toy dinosaurs, staff provide them with paint and show children how to stomp the dinosaur's feet onto the paper to make marks. This contributes to helping children develop their hand-eye coordination. n Close partnership working with other professionals helps staff to identify and support children's individual needs, particularly those children with SEND. Robust systems are in place to monitor and support children's development.

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need to do better?

n Children are keen to explore and investigate the toys and resources offered. However, sometimes, staff do not fully support children to build on their learning during their self-chosen play experiences. This results in children not making as much progress as possible in their development. n Staff implement 'golden rules' that help children to understand what is expected of them. These are discussed with children at appropriate times during the day. Children show that they understand how to use kind hands, listening ears, share and use quiet voices indoors.

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need to do better?

14 May 2025 n The management team reflects on the experiences they offer children. Feedback is obtained from parents and staff to help identify improvements. The management team visits other early years settings to share good practice and identify how they can build on what they already offer children. n Staff are supported to build on their professional development. Recent training helps staff to promote positive behaviour for children. This includes staff recognising that praising children's positive behaviour can help them to understand what they have done well. n Overall, staff support children's communication skills well. For example, children listen to and follow staff's instructions, such as when it is time to tidy away toys. However, sometimes, opportunities for children to build on their language skills are not as effective. For instance, staff do not fully give younger children opportunities to copy single words. Furthermore, when staff ask older children

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need to do better?

questions, they answer these themselves instead of supporting children to respond. n Parents say that staff are friendly and approachable. Staff invite parents into the nursery to join their children's play experiences, such as making Easter bonnets. Staff give parents information to help promote their children's care and learning at home, such as about weaning and oral health. This helps to provide a united approach to supporting children's learning.

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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 build on staff's interactions during children's self-chosen play, to help develop their learning n help staff to strengthen opportunities for children to build on their language skills.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY550981 Local authority Nottinghamshire County Council Inspection number 10388641 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 56 Number of children on roll 88 Name of registered person Luans Little People Ltd

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reference number

Telephone number 01909479182 Date of previous inspection 22 July 2019

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Information about this early years setting

Luans Little People Day Nursery registered in 2017 and is located in Worksop. The nursery employs 14 members of childcare staff. Of these, the manager holds an appropriate childcare qualification at level 5, eight staff are qualified at level 3 and one at level 2. The nursery opens all year round from 7.30am to 6pm, Monday to Friday. The nursery provides funded early education for children aged from nine months upwards.

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Inspection activities

n The manager and inspector completed a learning walk together of all areas of the nursery and discussed the early years curriculum. n The inspector observed the quality of education during activities, indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact this was having on children's learning. n Children spoke to the inspector throughout the inspection. n The inspector spoke with staff at appropriate times during the inspection. n The inspector carried out a joint observation with the manager. n The inspector spoke to parents during the inspection and took account of their views. n The inspector looked at relevant documentation and reviewed evidence of 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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14 May 2025 regulates and inspects to achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages. It regulates and inspects childcare and children's social care, and inspects the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass), schools, colleges, initial teacher training, further education and skills, adult and community learning, and education and training in prisons and other secure establishments. It assesses council children's services, and inspects services for looked after children, safeguarding and child protection.

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