Danum Daisies Daycare Limited

Inspection of Danum Daisies Daycare Limited The Bungalow, Grove Avenue, DONCASTER, South Yorkshire DN5 9BE

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Inspection date: 30 April 2025 - 27 August 2025

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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

Staff warmly welcome the children as they arrive at the nursery excited to start their day. Effective transition visits ensure that children settle quickly when starting at the nursery or changing rooms within the nursery. Children's behaviour is good. They show respect for each other and the staff. For example, they wait their turn to sit at the table for snack, and they help each other to find their coats. The curriculum supports children to be motivated to learn. Children concentrate and are confident to ask questions.

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The provision is good

Staff have a clear learning intent for the activities they provide for children. The sequenced curriculum continues through the nursery to support all children well for their next stage in learning. Children engage well in the curriculum offered. Staff support children's learning well. For example, staff teach children about volcanos and introduce words such as 'eruption' and 'lava'. Children experiment using different activators to create their own volcanic eruption. Staff embed children's understanding as they look at volcano pictures, create their own volcano using dough and draw pictures of what they have learnt.

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The provision is good

Children show increasing independence as they move through the nursery. Older children confidently serve their own meals and practice carrying their dinner plates in preparation for school. They talk about the food they eat making them 'grow' and question where cucumbers grow.

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need to do better?

n Managers have a vision for providing quality care and education for all. For example, over the last year, they have separated rooms to support smaller groups of children. A large canopy provides children with year round shelter and shade that enables them to access outdoor learning in all weathers. n Children have opportunities to develop a wide range of skills using dough. Young children are keen to feel the dough and squeeze it with their fingers. Staff talk with the children about how it feels, and they stretch the dough together with their hands. Older children love mixing the ingredients and kneading them with their hands. Staff talk with the children about the flour absorbing the water. n Children can choose their own play and show good imagination. For example, when there are dolls next to the baskets, children pretend to be cats leaping out of the basket. Children develop their fine motor skills as they carefully dress and

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need to do better?

undress the dolls. They talk soothingly to the dolls as they change the nappies. Staff know families well to be able to understand children's interests to support their play n Young children enjoy looking out for the puppet at rhyme time. Staff encourage them to take turns to anticipate where the puppet might be. They squeal out

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need to do better?

30 April 2025 when the puppet pops out. Other children excitedly reach up and clap their hands to pop the bubbles. Staff talk to children about different sizes of bubble and how high they float. This supports children's understanding of mathematical concepts. n Young children pick up books independently and are confident to turn the pages. Staff read to children spontaneously in a way that engages and excites them. Staff support children to put the books back into the basket when they have finished with them. They use sign language to effectively communicate with all children. However, sometimes staff do not further extend children's vocabulary and understanding when singing songs and rhymes. Songs are sung quickly with limited focus on the vocabulary they want children to learn and understand which reduces children's understanding of words. n Staff use their assessments to check what children know. They give appropriate

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need to do better?

support to ensure that all children progress with their learning and development. Staff work well with other professionals and agencies. This ensures that children have all the relevant support available to meet their needs. n Parents enjoy regularly seeing pictures of their children playing. They have opportunity to talk to staff everyday. Staff use an online communication system to keep parents updated about their children's learning. n Managers support staff's professional development well. Any training needs or interests are acted upon quickly ensuring staffs skills and knowledge are up to date and relevant for the children they care for.

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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 extend children's language and vocabulary skills even further, through, songs and rhymes ensuring staff focus on what vocabulary they want children to learn and understand.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY479055 Local authority Doncaster Inspection number 10392139 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 41 Number of children on roll 97 Name of registered person Danum Daisies Daycare Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 01302953810 07905178722 Date of previous inspection 6 August 2019

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Information about this early years setting

Danum Daisies Daycare Limited registered in 2014 and is located in Doncaster. The nursery employs 23 members of childcare staff. Of these, 16 staff hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3, one member of staff staff holds a level 6 qualification and one member of staff holds a level 2 qualification. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday for 50 weeks of the year. Sessions are from 7.30am until 6pm. The nursery offers the government funded places for childcare and receives specific funding for disadvantaged children.

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Inspection activities

n The inspection started on 30 April 2025. An inspector returned on 27 August 2025 to gather additional evidence in line with Ofsted inspections and visits: Deferring, pausing and gathering additional evidence policy. n The manager and staff completed a learning walk together of all areas of the nursery and discussed the early years curriculum. n Staff spoke to the inspector about how they support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. n The inspector observed the quality of education being provided, indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact on children's learning. n The inspector, manager and deputy manager carried out a joint observation. n Parents shared their views of the setting with the inspector.

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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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