Busy Bees Day Nursery at Bromborough

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

Children arrive happy and excited for their day at nursery, welcomed by the kind and nurturing team. Newer children settle quickly and seek comfort from their trusted adults, showing that they feel safe. The nursery helps children develop their communication and language skills continually. They babble along with babies and help them learn the meaning of their first words. All children hear words pronounced clearly and concisely and learn to speak correctly from the outset. The nursery ensures that children are exposed to a vivid vocabulary through songs, stories and broad and exciting topics within the well-sequenced and challenging curriculum. This helps ensure that any gaps children may have are rapidly closed and that they make strong progress.

Children are actively engaged in their learning throughout the day, as activities draw and maintain their interests. The nursery follows these interests, extends learning and provides continual challenge to children. The nursery uses its knowledge of children's interests to create a monthly timetable of events to engage children and families even further in areas that are of real importance. For example, to enhance children's physical skills in balance and coordination, and artistic expression, the nursery provides children with entire days focused on learning about things such as dance, yoga and creative activities.

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

• The support in place for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) is excellent. The nursery ensures that they prioritise early help and intervention for children with SEND. It works closely with parents and external professionals. Children with SEND flourish at this nurturing nursery. They make good progress and are well prepared for their next steps in learning, including their eventual move on to school.
• The nursery gives staff well-being a high priority. It provides staff with incentives for their work with children. For example, staff attend an awards ceremony where they receive recognition for their achievements. Staff reported that working at the nursery is 'fantastic'. Their morale is high, and a strong sense of teamwork permeates throughout the nursery.
• The nursery has acted on the recommendation from the previous inspection by ensuring that supervision arrangements for staff have real purpose. This means that staff receive regular formal overviews, feedback and reviews of the progress children are making. However, there is more to be done to help strengthen practice, in a practical sense, so that interactions with children are of a consistently high standard. For example, observations of practice are not as frequently undertaken by senior leaders, leading to some inconsistencies in practice. The nursery is aware of this but has not yet fully embedded its procedures to raise standards to the highest level.
• The nursery has a clear vision of the curriculum and education to be provided to children. It is well sequenced, tailored to children's individual requirements and takes account of the needs of the community it serves. Children benefit from a broad range of learning experiences which engage their interests across all areas of learning. Threaded through the curriculum is a meaningful focus on children's and families' interests, cultures and beliefs. As a result, all children develop a deep knowledge about, and celebrate, the similarities and differences they share.
• The nursery understands the importance of delivering a curriculum built on the bedrock of understanding emotions and the importance of children's individuality. The impact of this is seen throughout the nursery in children's confidence, independence and inquisitive nature. This means that children are willing to try, have a go and be truly resilient in all aspects of their development. As a result, all children make good progress from their starting points and are well prepared for their eventual move to school, as their personalities shine through.
• Parents compliment the nursery for their partnership working. They know exactly how their children are progressing and are given the time they need to interact with their children's key staff. They explain that the information they receive and the ideas to help children extend their learning at home make a real impact. Parents are clear that so much of the development and achievements of their children are as a direct result of the quality education they receive in the nursery.

What the setting must and should do next

The provider should:

• refine arrangements for staff coaching and mentoring to help improve interactions with children.