Kid Co Ltd

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

All children, including those very young and new to the setting, settle extremely well. This is due to the exceptional attentive care and education that staff plan and provide. Toddlers explain with delight that they are 'happy' while at nursery and what makes them so. Every moment of the day staff engage children in unlimited, planned and purposeful play and learning. Staff consistently adapt and improve the learning environment, to provide awe-inspiring opportunities across a curriculum that is highly inspiring. Babies take enormous delight in exploring nature and being outdoors in the woodland area. They use their senses as they touch different textures of the leaves and peer through magnifying glasses, identifying things in the environment. Staff teach babies with exceptional care and skills, demonstrating and modelling language successfully. For example, they copy how to use sticks to tap on objects and listen to the different sounds they make.

Children are extremely polite, kind and highly curious in their investigations. Staff are fully committed to stimulating children's explorations, and join in with their awe and wonder. This makes children feel truly valued, respected and cared for. Toddlers embrace singing time with great gusto. They join in with actions, and shake their instruments along to the beat of the music. Staff show great enthusiasm, helping children maintain their focus. Children's levels of concentration and determination are excellent. Pre-school children show immense skills that they have learned. For example, they hold test tubes, and with big watering cans they successfully pour water into the tube.

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

• Leaders create an exceptional team ethos to provide children with the best possible start in life, reach their full potential and become independent learners. There is a superbly effective management structure that enables the whole team to drive consistent and continual improvement.
• There are highly effective procedures in place to ensure the ongoing professional development of their stable staff team. Staff access a wealth of training opportunities to enhance their professionalism even further. They successfully evaluate each training event and use the knowledge gained to make exceptionally well-targeted changes to each age-group room.
• Staff create an innovative and inspiring curriculum. They gather an abundance of information from parents. Staff show a heightened awareness of the developmental stages, learning needs and styles of their key children. They use a holistic approach, finding out about children's home lives, which supports planning and progress to the highest levels.
• Support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities is excellent. The special educational needs coordinator is tenacious in her approach to seeking and exploring all avenues of additional support. This enables all children to thrive and flourish and make the best possible progress.
• Babies receive worthwhile and gentle encouragement to try to do things for themselves. When they succeed, they receive praise, such as staff clapping and cheering, and they show immense delight on their face. This builds children's independence and confident to excellent levels.
• Staff read to children in inspiring ways that excites their imagination and prompts their thinking. Children demonstrate excellent listening skills. They have exceptional concentration and engagement, and staff are enthusiastic, encouraging children to be full participants in the group story times.
• Children demonstrate exceptional behaviour and attitudes. Staff have high expectations of children, and promote this in extremely nurturing, kind and caring ways. The outstanding behaviour children display means that they focus their time and concentrate on learning that is fun, thought-provoking and stimulating. For example, children were extremely excited when they searched the woods for a toy wizard that staff hid. They worked together and explored with determination and increasing anticipation.
• Children's imaginative play is exceptional, and they are actively involved and living the experience. For example, children make a cup of tea, showing that they have learned all aspects of the sequence. They even understand that when they run out of milk, they need to visit the shop to buy more. Children feel totally secure in their surroundings, and engage in make-believe play by pretending.
• Parent partnership is strong and extremely successful. Parents are highly complementary about the support and care that their children receive. Staff seek ways to explore children's interests at home sand use these to fully embed these in learning at nursery. Staff value parents tremendously as partners, and encourage them to be a part of the wonderful learning journey with their children. Managers and staff understand that robust relationship with parents is a vehicle for children to flourish and thrive.
• Children immerse themselves in nature. For example, they found a newt in the woods and explored this with staff. They showed their excellent understanding of how to be gentle, discussed what it looked like and its habitat. Learning is limitless and staff go above and beyond to aid children's development.