New Beginnings Day Nursery

Inclusion: Strong standard

Staff share a highly flexible approach to support children with barriers to their learning that is embedded across the nursery. For example, staff adapt their teaching of key language skills to children who need more concise and clear instructions. Staff are consistently sensitive to the wellbeing barriers that some children face. They share effective practice to identify gaps in development. Staff consistently plan opportunities to support children to break down barriers to learning.

Leaders oversee robust practices for planning and reviewing what children know and can do. They seek out and draw on a wide range of expert partners for advice. This includes partners in health and education. For example, staff use specialist approaches to support children to brush their teeth or use the toilet. Leaders provide staff with the training that they need to implement these approaches. They regularly review this support and look at the impact on children's learning. As a result, all children are very well prepared for their future lives and education.

Staff work closely with schools, ensuring that children with barriers to learning can access their full entitlement. They work with other settings to shape children's opportunities and experiences. This includes children who are disadvantaged and may face barriers to their wellbeing. All children leave the nursery with secure skills, helping them to be ready for their future lives.

Leaders have begun to share their practice both locally and nationally to impact children beyond their setting.

Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard

Leaders closely monitor the quality of teaching and continuously plan opportunities to enhance the curriculum. There is a culture of learning for all staff at the nursery. Staff have consistently impactful teaching and high expectations of all children. Leaders' vision for a curriculum that engages children's thinking about relevant topics, considers their interests and helps them to gain high levels of independence is embedded across the setting. Staff routinely adapt the curriculum to spark individual children's curiosity.

Staff ensure every moment promotes learning. This includes during routines such as mealtimes. Expert interactions by all staff across the nursery ensure children develop ambitious fluency skills. For example, staff ask children questions that help them to think critically. They role model to children how to talk their ideas through. As a result, children negotiate with their peers in conversations and ask meaningful questions.

Staff closely consider children's emotional development. They identify children who need additional strategies to develop confidence. They work together to consistently implement strategies to help children to feel safe. Staff have warm and positive relationships with all children. Children feel safe and ready to achieve.

Achievement: Strong standard

Children feel excited to learn. They are curious about the world around them. Children try hard, even in the face of difficulties. For example, children excitedly explore binoculars and ask increasingly complex questions about nature. Children learn that taking risks in their play helps them to develop and learn. Staff praise children when they keep going. Children are resilient learners.

Children benefit from highly impactful teaching across all areas of the curriculum. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities consistently receive the expert support they need to reach and exceed their milestones.

All children make consistent progress in their communication and language skills. Children who face barriers to their learning and wellbeing are empowered to express their needs. All children gain the fluency skills they need for their future lives.

Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routines: Strong standard

Leaders and staff embed a harmonious culture across the setting where children learn that rules and respect keep themselves and others safe. They teach children to show empathy and reach out to others who need help. Children are sensitive to the learning needs of their peers. For example, when children explore resources, they ask each other if they want help and carefully guide their friends. All children are kind, well mannered and respectful of each other.

Babies develop a strong sense of respect for each other as soon as they join the nursery. Staff teach children to use manners during key routines. Children understand and remember these messages. They use them both in the nursery and beyond, sharing their knowledge with parents and others. Staff consistently teach children to have positive attitudes to themselves and each other, both at and beyond nursery life.

Staff give children responsibilities that help them to feel confident and competent. All children are involved in the implementation of these responsibilities and enjoy undertaking them. Children feel excited to tell others what they do to help staff and their peers at nursery.

Leaders consistently track children's attendance and ensure that policies promote children's learning and prevent them from missing out on key experiences. Staff work with all children, including those with gaps in their learning, to help them to hone high levels of independence.

Children's welfare and wellbeing: Strong standard

Staff provide intensive support to children who are disadvantaged and have gaps in their wellbeing to develop a positive self-image, regulate their feelings and play effectively alongside each other. Children develop warm relationships with staff and their peers. Staff are highly responsive to children's emotional and physical needs. This includes considering children's changing circumstances beyond the nursery. Children feel safe and secure and know that their needs will be met.

Staff support children to develop lifelong healthy habits. They plan opportunities to help children to learn about growing and cooking food. Children feel excited to share what they have cooked and eaten. They know that these foods promote their physical strength and wellbeing. Children understand nutrition, laying a strong foundation for their future health.

Staff carefully consider children's needs when planning routines. This includes adapting their policies when children have barriers to their wellbeing. They work with partners, including health professionals, to identify and support children with allergies and intolerances.

Leaders rigorously adapt their policies in order to promote the most ambitious opportunities to meet children's changing wellbeing needs.

Leadership and governance: Strong standard

Leaders create a culture of continuous self-reflection and development at the nursery. They strive to continue to have a positive impact on children, both at and beyond the nursery, through their strategic oversight. For example, leaders work with external settings to close the gaps in learning of children in and beyond the community, including following the COVID-19 pandemic. Leaders are robust in their approach to acting in the best interests of all children, irrespective of the barriers they face.

Staff feel passionate about supporting children's learning. The support leaders give staff and the training opportunities they provide help staff to feel valued and passionate about supporting children's progress. For example, staff recently attended training to develop the teaching of communication and language in the setting. Staff are able to successfully adapt their teaching. They have a strong understanding of how children learn.

Parents are overwhelmingly positive in their feedback about the nursery. Staff communicate children's needs highly effectively. This helps parents to gain a concise understanding of children's next steps. Leaders give exceptional levels of support to families to help them access external support services. Parents are able to understand precisely how to support children in their learning. This has a transformational impact on children's attainment at nursery and beyond.