Busy Bees Christian Pre-School Nursery

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

Children arrive eager to play and learn and show their delight as they enter the nursery after the long summer break. They greet staff with enthusiasm and express that they are happy and secure. Children enjoy outdoor play, they climb, and ride wheeled toys along the painted track in the garden as they negotiate around each other, supporting their physical skills. Children make sense of the world as they act out their-real life summer holiday experiences and develop their language and communication skills.

Staff are responsive to young babies and join in with their play showing a warm interest. Babies are happy and secure and watch staff's faces with joy and wonderment. They successfully, with support, climb small steps up the slide developing their balance and coordination. Babies enjoy listening to stories and understand that pictures represent objects and they show they like pictures and become familiar with sounds and words. Children are well behaved and there is friendly cooperation between children and adults. Children who have additional needs are supported well. Children enjoy activities such as 'bucket time' which helps children to concentrate and take part in an activity for an extended period of time. Children learn to share an activity with other children, building social skills.

What does the early years setting do well and what does it need to do better?

• Staff plan an ambitious curriculum and enabling environment to support children to develop in all areas of learning. Children enjoy learning outside which helps to boost their imagination and creativity. Children are curious as they observe fish and frogs in the pond.
• Staff encourage children to attend to their personal needs such as toileting and handwashing. They learn the importance of hygiene to support their independence and self-care skills.
• Leaders work effectively with other agencies to help children to catch up in all areas of learning including social, emotional and physical needs.
• Partnership with parents are strong. Staff share information with parents about their child's development. They offer suggestions to parents for learning at home, so they can continue to support their child's development. Parents speak highly of staff and the caring, supportive relationships that staff have with the children.
• Staff support children who have English as an additional language effectively. For example, all children benefit from the visual timetable which helps keep children informed about the daily routines, regardless of their development levels or language.
• Staff promote healthy eating well. For instance, meal times are relaxed and comfortable, and staff are positive about the healthy foods that children eat.
• Staff encourage children to adopt healthy choices for later life.
• Leaders support staff to undertake training to support their professional development. For example, they are more knowledgeable of safeguarding children. Staff update their childcare knowledge at staff meetings during discussions and questioning.
• Staff support children to develop their communication skills effectively. For example, children express their thoughts and ideas and understand their feelings. Children are engaged in talking, they enjoy singing activities and listening to stories. However, staff do not consistently help children to build new vocabulary, by for example using complete sentences in everyday talk through rephrasing what they are saying.
• Children make marks with writing tools, they paint, and handle books. All of which supports their early literacy development.
• Staff support young babies to complete simple puzzles to support their understanding of problem-solving and learning about shapes. Babies handle interesting shaped objects, pots and pans and programmable toys, which helps babies develop their hand-to-eye coordination.
• All children have access to the resources and activities to help promote diversity and inclusion. Staff treat children as individuals and celebrate their differences through festivals and celebrations, and the environment is reflective of the wider world.
• Leaders engage with staff and are aware of their work pressures. They show support by employing extra skilled staff members to offer individual care to children who need additional support. This helps all staff to meet the needs of all the children.

What the setting must and should do next

The provider should:

• help children to build new vocabulary by encouraging the use of complete sentences in everyday talk, for example by rephrasing what they are saying.