Westwood Day Nursery

Westwood Day Nursery

Unique reference number (URN): EY290857 Address: Westwood Business Park, Westwood Way, COVENTRY, West Midlands, CV4 8HS Type: Childcare on non-domestic premises Registered with Ofsted: 11/06/2004 Registers: EYR, CCR, VCR Registered person: Childbase Partnership Limited

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Safeguarding standards met

The safeguarding standards are met. This means that leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfil their specific responsibilities and have established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon and managed. As a result, children are made safer and feel safe.

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How we evaluate safeguarding

When we inspect settings for safeguarding, they can have the following outcomes:

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How we evaluate safeguarding

Met: The setting has an open and positive culture of safeguarding. Not met: The setting has not created an open and positive culture of safeguarding. Not all legal requirements are met.

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Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routines Strong standard

Staff implement a calm approach, where clear expectations of behaviours are commonly understood by all children across the nursery. Staff implement consistent strategies that children follow well. This contributes to children's positive behaviour, as staff model respect, kindness, and cooperation, helping children develop secure emotional understanding and self-regulation.

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Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routines Strong standard

Children demonstrate positive attitudes to their learning. They engage with enthusiasm, show perseverance in tasks, and take pride in their achievements. Staff skilfully use praise and encouragement to reinforce expectations and celebrate success. As a result, children are confident, motivated, and show high levels of independence and curiosity.

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Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routines Strong standard

Attendance is a key priority. Leaders closely monitor absence and maintain strong communication with families to ensure children attend regularly and benefit fully from the provision and curriculum.

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Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routines Strong standard

Inclusive approaches underpin all routines. If and when conflicts do arise, staff respond with sensitivity and consistency, using strategies that promote understanding and respect. This approach ensures every child feels valued, secure, and part of a harmonious learning community.

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Children's welfare and well-being Strong standard

Leaders and staff create a safe, nurturing, and welcoming environment where every child and family feels they belong. Core values of the nursery are consistently embedded across the nursery, promoting respect, and a strong sense of community. Children confidently settle through strong attachments with their key person and demonstrate high levels of emotional well-being and security.

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Children's welfare and well-being Strong standard

Staff expertly teach children about healthy lifestyles. They discuss how different foods fuel their bodies for the activities they enjoy, helping children make thoughtful choices about what they eat. Well-structured routines are clearly understood and consistently followed. During mealtime routines, children independently wash their hands before eating and collect their utensils, demonstrating responsibility and awareness of hygiene. Children relish their time outdoors, exploring with curiosity and confidence. Staff skilfully encourage independence in managing personal care. For example, after mealtimes, children use wet cloths to wipe their faces while looking in the mirror, practising self-care. Children confidently seek help if they are struggling to do this on their own. These embedded routines help children develop life skills and resilience.

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Children's welfare and well-being Strong standard

Leaders and staff place welfare and well-being at the heart of what they strive to achieve, through their approach. This helps children to build strong foundations for lifelong health, confidence, and independence.

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Inclusion Strong standard

Staff have a clear understanding of each child's individual needs and consistently adapt their practice to ensure every child can access learning successfully. They take swift and effective action to remove barriers. As a result, there is a positive impact on all children's progress and well-being.

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Inclusion Strong standard

Leaders and staff provide highly impactful experiences for children, ensuring they all feel fully valued and included. Staff demonstrate genuine passion and commitment to providing strong standards of care. They foster a strong sense of belonging and emotional security for every child.

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Inclusion Strong standard

Leaders and staff work in close partnership with parents and professionals to identify and respond to children's developmental concerns promptly. Open communication between families and staff is supportive. This ensures parents feel fully involved in decision-making about their children. Robust internal additional support procedures ensure that while waiting for external agency involvement, immediate and targeted support is already in progress. This proactive and responsive approach ensures that children's progress is not hindered.

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Inclusion Strong standard

Staff skilfully adjust provision to meet individual needs and monitor the effectiveness of their strategies, ensuring children continue to thrive. As a result, all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities make sustained progress.

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Leadership and governance Strong standard

Leaders have a strong understanding of what they want children to achieve while attending the nursery. The genuine care for staff and families that leaders create provides an environment where everyone feels supported, valued, and able to thrive. Leaders hold high ambitions for all and take swift, effective action to address any concerns in children's development or learning. This proactive approach ensures continuous improvement across the nursery.

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Leadership and governance Strong standard

Leaders place equal importance on staff well-being. They encourage manageable workloads and demonstrate a deep understanding of staff's individual needs, offering tailored support to help them succeed. Thoughtful gestures and open communication from leaders help to boost staff's well-being. Staff work collaboratively and feel valued and motivated.

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Expected standard

Staff access a range of high-quality internal and external training that enhances their skills and expertise. Leaders and staff respectfully engage with parents and the wider community, ensuring that the views and ideas of families contribute meaningfully to their children's education and care. Parents highly value the level of care and support for their children and how much they have thrived since attending.

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Achievement Expected standard

Staff carefully identify children who face barriers to learning, including children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. Staff provide targeted support to help them make secure progress. Children are independent learners who take pride in leading their own learning. Staff skilfully extend their communication and language through reading familiar stories and through well-planned activities that encourage conversations. Staff develop children's knowledge and understanding of the seven areas of learning and this supports all children's progression. As a result, children make steady progress from their starting points and develop the appropriate skills to be suitability prepared for their future learning. This includes a smooth transition onto the next stage in their learning journey.

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Curriculum and teaching Expected standard

Staff have a clear understanding of the quality of the curriculum across the nursery. They implement a well-designed and ambitious curriculum that meets all areas of children's learning. Staff confidently describe how they deliver learning through motivating and purposeful experiences, ensuring all children engage and make progress. The curriculum promotes curiosity and independence, enabling children to explore and build on their skills through play.

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Curriculum and teaching Expected standard

Staff model rich vocabulary to children through reading familiar stories together and encouraging children to express their ideas during activities. Staff help develop children's confidence to learn through a variety of independent experiences to develop their communication and language. For example, as children and staff count scoops of water when filling and emptying containers, children confidently repeat the correct number of scoops. This support children's understanding of mathematical concepts.

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Curriculum and teaching Expected standard

Staff understand what they want children to be able to do. However, the consistency of how staff adapt teaching to build on what children already know and can do is not always swift. For example, during some activities, there are times when staff overlook ways to extend learning further. As a result, staff are not consistently embedding high-quality interactions, that support children even further in their learning and development.

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Compulsory Childcare Register requirements

This setting has met the requirements of the compulsory part of the Childcare Register.

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Register

When we check if settings meet the Compulsory Childcare Register requirements, they can have the following outcomes:

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Voluntary Childcare Register requirements

This setting has met the requirements of the voluntary part of Childcare Register.

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Register

When we check if settings meet the Voluntary Childcare Register requirements, they can have the following outcomes:

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What it's like to be a child at this setting

Children are extremely well cared for in this inclusive nursery. Staff place a strong emphasis on developing core values that promote children's welfare and well-being through positive, nurturing, and engaging interactions. From the outset, children learn they are part of a wider community. Staff implement purposeful initiatives that foster lifelong values. For example, children take part in local litter-picking to help them to understand how to keep their environment clean and safe. This benefits everyone, promoting a culture of respect and responsibility.

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What it's like to be a child at this setting

Children thoroughly enjoy their time at the nursery. They engage purposefully in outdoor play, riding bikes and exploring the water tray, where they discover and name ocean

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Inspector:

Katherine Wilson mammals. This helps to develop their vocabulary. Children form friendships and demonstrate empathy and cooperation as they play together. The nursery works closely with families, valuing them as an integral part of its community. As a result, children thrive in an environment where they feel a strong sense of belonging.

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Inspector:

Children display strong social skills and confidently explore their surroundings with curiosity and independence. For example, when experimenting with play dough, they discuss and decide how much flour to add to achieve the right texture. Children develop their problem- solving and critical-thinking skills effectively. Staff praise and value children's ideas, which boosts their confidence and reinforces positive decision-making. These interactions reflect the secure, trusting relationships children have with staff.

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Inspector:

Staff use their expert knowledge of each child's needs to identify clear next steps that build on existing skills and knowledge. This ensures children are suitability prepared for future learning. Staff swiftly address any barriers to learning and well-being, particularly for disadvantaged children and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities.

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Next steps

Support staff to implement consistently high-quality interactions to build on what children already know and can do.

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About this inspection

The inspector spoke with leaders, practitioners, the special educational needs coordinator, parents and children during the inspection.

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About this inspection

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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About this inspection

A quality assurance visit by an additional inspector was carried out at this inspection.

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Address:

Westwood Business Park Westwood Way COVENTRY West Midlands CV4 8HS

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Address:

Type: Childcare on non-domestic premises

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Address:

Registered person: Childbase Partnership Limited

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Address:

Operating hours: Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday : 07:30 - 18:30

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Facts and figures used on inspection

This data was available to the inspector at the time of the inspection.

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Exceptional

Practice is exceptional: of the highest standard nationally. Other settings can learn from it.

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Strong standard

The setting reaches a strong standard. Leaders are working above the standards expected of them.

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Expected standard

The setting is fulfilling the expected standard of education and/or care. This means they are following the standards set out in statutory and non-statutory legislation and the professional standards expected of them.

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Needs attention

The expected standards are not met but leaders are likely able to make the necessary improvements.

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Urgent improvement

The setting needs to make urgent improvements to provide the expected standard of education and/or care.

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Urgent improvement

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Urgent improvement

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