Kids Planet Irlam

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

All staff show an unwavering passion and commitment to enriching children's character and ensuring they form strong and secure attachments. As a result, children are brimming with confidence and self-assurance and are curious, motivated and resilient learners. All children benefit from a precisely planned and exceptionally well-delivered curriculum, which offers children engaging opportunities to build on their existing knowledge and perfect their skills. This supports children to engage quickly and demonstrate deep concentration and motivation in their play. Staff provide enriching opportunities for children to learn about the local environment and the wider world. This helps children to understand and respect their similarities and differences.

Staff have exceptionally high expectations for behaviour and routines are robust so that children quickly learn behaviour that is expected of them. As children progress through the setting, they develop remarkable independence skills as they learn to do more things for themselves. Children learn to resolve issues by sharing and taking turns and understand the impact of their behaviour on others. As such, children demonstrate high levels of respect and tolerance when playing and interacting with their friends. Mealtimes are a social event, where staff model positive relationships, respect and effective communication.

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

• Leaders implement a bespoke curriculum, which promotes curiosity and awe. Highly skilled staff demonstrate a clear understanding of what they want children to learn. Activities and experiences are consistently and coherently arranged. Staff know how to expertly adapt activities for individual needs to ensure all children are included.
• Communication and language is a key focus, with staff expertly weaving new and familiar vocabulary into children's daily activities. Children use vocabulary which reflects the breadth of their experiences. Engaging conversations help staff to ensure that children understand what is being taught. Staff provide real-life examples and scenarios to help children to experience and understand new words and their meaning.
• The key-person system is highly effective. With a robust secondary key-person system also in place, children and their parents are confident about who provides care and who children go to for comfort and reassurance. Staff are sensitive to children's needs and seamlessly respond to their gestures and signals, meaning children settle quickly and become confident and self-assured learners.
• Staff are highly attuned to children's needs, meaning children are included and can fully participate fully. Play and health care plans are robust and document children's needs clearly, including any risk assessments and details of any other agency involvement to ensure a cohesive approach to their development.
• Parent partnership working is exceptional and promotes a positive and coordinated approach to learning. Parents welcome the links the setting offers to help them to experience their child's day and socialise with other parents. This helps to support effective partnership working and ensure a coordinated approach to a child's development.
• The provider identifies any breaches to requirements and ensures these are dealt with immediately. Following an isolated incident, leaders took immediate action to swiftly address risks to safety, including training to upskill staff. The provider has since reviewed their practice to ensure regular training to revisit safeguarding procedures and to review risk assessments. This ensures the continued safety of all children.
• Staff are supported to access training and development opportunities both personally and within the company to build and enhance their professional development. Leaders ensure that any new training is disseminated throughout the team to help maintain the highest quality and most up-to-date provision for children.
• Leaders and staff expertly promote the health and well-being of children. Parents praise the variety of healthy food offered to children and the support they receive with oral health and toothbrushing. Children benefit from opportunities to develop their independence and engage in hygiene practices which teach them the importance of good hygiene routines. This instils the importance of a healthy body.