Kidspace Nursery Markfield

Inclusion: Strong standard

Leaders and staff demonstrate a consistent approach to ensuring their practice is fully inclusive for every child attending the nursery. Training and support from leaders are effective in helping staff understand the needs of their key children. This enables them to develop appropriate plans and reviews to promote and monitor children's progress. Staff and leaders work closely with parents and other agencies who are involved with children. This highly effective partnership working ensures the targeted support they provide for individual children is effective in meeting their needs and promoting their wellbeing.

Staff get to know the children well and through accurate assessments they quickly identify any barriers to children's learning. Leaders are fully supportive. They work alongside other specialist professionals who contribute to planning for any required adaptations, such as additions to the nursery environment. This helps all children benefit from the experiences available to them.

Careful consideration is given to the best use of additional funding. Staff use resources, such as fidget toys and bubbles to distract children and help them refocus. Staff read children books about feelings and emotions as well as one-to-one and small group activities. This involvement from the staff and their effective teaching helps children learn at their own pace to recognise and begin to manage their feelings. Staff keep parents up to date with how their child is doing at nursery. They value parents sharing information from home which contributes to a consistent approach to their children's care and learning.

Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard

Leaders have established and refined a high-quality curriculum that all members of staff understand and implement well. Ongoing evaluations and reviews of the curriculum results in prompt changes being made. This ensures it remains inclusive and meaningful for all children who attend. Staff confidently speak about what children know already and about what they want them to learn next. They are consistent in their enthusiasm when they interact with and engage children during play and activities. Staff are confident to help children follow their own ideas and interests. They provide children with opportunities to challenge themselves to extend their physical development. For instance, staff reassure toddlers when they want to climb a tree in the nursery garden. They help children think about where to put their feet and how high to lift their leg over the branch. Children clearly show a sense of achievement which gives them confidence to try new experiences.

Staff demonstrate skills in adapting activities to ensure all children can take part. They extend children's communication and language skills, and introduce more complex and descriptive words for older and more able children during stories for example. Staff help babies to choose the songs they want to sing and they become fully engaged, gazing at the staff as they sing and show them the actions.

Achievement: Strong standard

All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those who speak English as an additional language achieve well from their individual starting points, and their characters really shine. Children learn skills that significantly help with their transitions in the nursery. They are extremely well prepared for moving on to school when the time comes. Children rapidly develop their independence skills. Babies clean their faces and hands after mealtimes and choose what they want to play with. Toddlers know where to find their coats and persevere as they get ready to play outside. Pre-school children increasingly manage their own self-care. They expertly serve their own lunch, and eagerly find the dustpan and brush to help sweep the floor.

Children benefit from the rich language environment and quickly become articulate communicators. Babies are confident to be vocal as they play. Toddlers learn new words, such as 'spider', 'wobbly' and 'roots', as they explore the woodland area outside. Pre-school children engage in complex conversations as they play in the home corner. During story times they become fully involved and comment on what is happening and what they think will happen next.

Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routines: Strong standard

The atmosphere in the nursery is consistently friendly, calm, respectful and productive. The relationships between staff and children are highly supportive and positive. Staff place a high focus on helping children to learn about how they are feeling and how to manage those feelings. They are attentive, see when children are finding things difficult and take time to talk to them. Staff provide physical activity sessions that help children regulate their emotions. They speak clearly to all children so they understand what is expected of them. Staff make very effective use of picture cards to help children with special educational needs and/or disabilities know what is happening now and next in daily routines. Children respond positively to these reminders and happily go to wash their hands ready for lunch for example.

Staff listen to children's ideas and base their planning on children's interests. This contributes to children being motivated and excited to take part in the activities, which leads to consistently positive behaviour throughout the nursery. Leaders carefully monitor children's attendance. They support parents effectively as required to help them understand the importance of attending nursery regularly for their children's learning and development.

Children's welfare and wellbeing: Strong standard

Staff consistently demonstrate a secure understanding of their role in promoting children's safety and welfare. They work closely with children's parents from the outset and continue to do so, gathering detailed information. This enables them to meet each child's individual needs and respond quickly to any necessary changes. The secure partnership working helps children feel a strong sense of belonging at the nursery. Risk assessments are highly effective and promote children and staff's safety. Individual plans are in place for any specific needs children have and these are reviewed regularly to ensure they remain up to date. Staff help children begin to learn about their own safety. For example, through discussion and modelling from staff toddlers learn how to manage the uneven surfaces in the woodland area.

Staff are skilled in supporting children's personal care and helping them learn about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. They talk to children about how their body feels after physical exercise. Effective supervision at mealtimes and regular checks on sleeping children contributes to children's safety. Children enjoy freshly prepared, healthy meals and snacks. Leaders are committed to ensuring the ingredients used are unprocessed. Children benefit from the flexible routines that are embedded in staff practice. This contributes significantly to their clear enjoyment of their nursery day.

Leadership and governance: Strong standard

Leaders are passionate and driven to ensure every child feels valued and included, and experience high quality care and learning. They have a superbly organised and thorough approach to all aspects of their work. This contributes to the whole staff team working extremely well together. Leaders set high expectations for themselves, the staff and the children. They are confident about the strengths of staff's practice that have been identified and embedded since the setting was registered. Leaders are fully supportive and mindful of the staff's workload and wellbeing. They identify the staff as valuable assets to the nursery and show a true commitment to their continued professional development. Staff recognise the positive impact on their knowledge and confidence that comes from completing relevant training courses and qualifications.

Leaders demonstrate a secure understanding of their local area. They arrange events around celebrations, such as Christmas and Easter, to develop links with the local community. This includes the school and the church. Parents are welcomed into the nursery. Staff successfully build effective working partnerships with them that are based on highly effective communication and trust.