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What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The manager and staff team plan and implement a highly effective curriculum. This enables children throughout the nursery to follow their interests, embed their knowledge and progress towards highly ambitious outcomes. Staff support children's exceptional desire for learning. They enable them to experience the awe and wonder of the world in which they live. An impressive commitment to inclusion helps to ensure that all children, particularly those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), have full access to their early education entitlement.

Children flourish due to the close and consistent relationships established with long-standing staff. These secure attachments help children to settle easily so that they are ready for learning quickly. Children are happy, focused, curious and active. Staff help children to remember what they already know. For example, during role play outdoors, children confidently explain what to do if there is a fire and how to contact the emergency services. Staff instil high levels of confidence in children, which supports their exemplary behaviour. For example, they provide children with gentle reminders of the amount of time left to play before they must return indoors. This allows them to finish what they are doing so that they can move on independently. Staff also help children to understand routines. For example, children confidently tell visitors to line up and be counted, so they are not left behind. Children are developing the knowledge and attitudes needed to give them the very best start in life.

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

• The experienced and highly motivated manager is passionate about constantly providing high-quality care and learning for all children. She competently leads by example, which helps to instil this ethos in her staff team. Since the previous inspection, the new manager has provided robust support and direction. This has enabled all staff to fully contribute to the development of the provision. The manager prioritises staff's ongoing professional development. Her meticulous approach has contributed to significant improvements in the delivery of the curriculum.
• Staff provide highly effective support for children with SEND. They identify gaps in development at an early stage. Staff have an exceptional knowledge of children's individual needs. They implement targeted strategies swiftly. This ensures that children get the best support possible while referrals for additional help and funding are in progress. Staff work very closely with parents and other professionals, which helps to ensure that children make the best progress possible.
• Staff are dedicated to improving children's communication and language. They plan specific ways to enrich children's speaking. For example, as babies and toddlers explore a range of small vehicles, staff introduce specific word sounds, such as 'zoom' and 'brum', which enhance children's oral development. Staff broaden children's vocabulary further. For example, they introduce different concepts, such as 'under' and 'over', while weaving cellophane over the table. As they swirl paint on paper, the children watch them in awe. Children become highly confident communicators.
• A love of books and stories is strongly promoted. Staff use a variety of stories, songs and rhymes to promote literacy. Children happily spend 'oodles' of time looking at books, indoors and outdoors. They show great excitement as they choose books to read with staff during circle time. Children also share special moments with parents while choosing books to read at home.
• Children are exceptionally well behaved and show high levels of respect for others. Staff have very high expectations, which are reinforced and embedded through all activities. They consistently encourage children to be independent. Staff also enable children to persevere at a chosen task before they offer support. Children develop highly positive attitudes to their play and learning.
• The curriculum is highly effective in helping children understand the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Children learn about their bodies and how to eat healthily. Staff expertly and continuously build on children's physical skills. For example, they support babies to balance safely using soft play equipment. They help toddlers progress from sitting on wheeled toys to peddling them around the garden. By the time children reach pre-school, they can balance on tyres and manage obstacle courses with skill.
• Staff establish strong partnerships with parents, who highly recommend the nursery provision. Parents are highly complimentary of the professionalism and support that they continuously receive. This has been particularly successful in helping parents to manage children's toilet training and oral health. Additionally, parents are very thankful for the time taken by staff to help them settle children and to engage with specialist services when needed.