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What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The manager and staff know the children in the setting very well. The manager observes and assesses how staff implement the curriculum and evaluates the impact it has on the children. The manager ensures that the curriculum is exciting, challenging and child focused. All children acquire the skills necessary for their next steps in education.

All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and those who speak English as an additional language, receive good support from staff. Professionals and staff involved in the care and learning of the children work together to help ensure that children make good progress. Staff ensure that children are familiar with the routine and teach them different ways to express themselves. This helps children to be confident learners.

Children are thriving at this setting. There is a real sense of community and a focus on family within the setting. Staff build strong and effective relationships with children and their parents. They attend workshops and training to support their children at home. Children frequently visit the local community, including visiting an allotment and a forest school. They learn about respect, resilience and independence through these activities.

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

• Since the last inspection, the manager and staff team have reviewed their procedures. They have put measures in place to help ensure the well-being and safety of children. The manager liaises with the local early years team to get further support and secure better outcomes for children's future learning.
• The manager and staff understand the importance of settling children into their new learning environments. Staff with key-person responsibilities act as a safe base for the children. For instance, children come to their key person for reassurance as they explore the environment. This supports children's emotional needs and enables them to be ready and eager to learn more.
• Staff use effective communication to help children know what happens next and why. When younger children come inside from the garden, staff say, 'We take our shoes off, as it might be slippery', and encourage them to take their shoes off. This helps to extend children's understanding.
• Children develop good social skills. Pre-school children effortlessly share resources and ideas. For instance, they use their imaginations to extend their play in the role-play area. Children eagerly share with visitors what they have been learning, such as how many more days they have to wait for the potatoes to be ready for harvesting.
• Children make choices about what they want to learn. Staff set up resources for
• Inspection report: Little Explorers Daycare Nursery Trading As Little Adventurers Day Care Nursery 2 21 August 2023 the children to explore at their own pace. For example, young children independently explore the home corner. They pretend to feed a baby doll and say 'cup' and 'all done'. They are babbling along during their play. This shows that they imitate language, developing their early language skills.
• Staff help children to learn about healthy lifestyles. They model the behaviour they expect from the children and wash their hands with them. In addition, staff provide children with appropriate food, to meet their dietary needs and preferences. Children build good foundations for keeping themselves healthy and developing good self-care skills.
• Parent partnership is strong, and staff value parents as partners in their children's development. Parents receive a wide range of support and guidance from staff, which helps them to support their children, and they express their appreciation for the care and education their children receive.
• Leaders value staff, and their well-being is paramount to them. There are systems in place to monitor staff practice. However, leaders have not identified some inconsistencies in staff's teaching and interactions with children. Staff do not always extend and challenge children's thinking and learning effectively. For example, staff do not support all babies to use their spoons during mealtimes. Other children do not have enough experiences to express their own ideas.

What the setting must and should do next

The provider should:

• enhance the processes to monitor practice to strengthen staff's interactions and teaching and embed consistently high standards of teaching across the setting.
• Inspection report: Little Explorers Daycare Nursery Trading As Little Adventurers Day Care Nursery 3 21 August 2023