Busy Bees Day Nursery at Warndon

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The provision is good

Children approach visitors with smiles and confidently share what they are doing. This shows they feel safe and secure.

They happily explore the setting, accessing a wide range of resources. Children show sustained involvement and concentration in activities that follow their interests. Babies beat on drums and shake maracas as staff sing songs.

Toddlers play with zoo animals and talk about recent days out with their families. Pre-school children build complex models with construction toys and talk proudly about their creations.Children's behaviour is exemplary.

They follow staff's instructions and the behavio...ur rules of the setting. This helps to keep them safe. Toddlers sing a safety song while they walk up and down stairs, carefully holding the handrail.

Pre-school children put their hands up when they want to talk during group times. They listen carefully to what staff and their friends have to say. Children show good manners at mealtimes.

They wait patiently for their lunch, take turns in the queue and clear their own plates. Staff use verbal praise, stickers and high-fives to reward positive behaviour.

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

Staff share a range of books and songs with children.

This helps to develop their communication and language skills. Children share cuddles and stories with staff. Babies copy the sounds that farm animals make.

Toddlers use resources to retell familiar stories independently with friends. Staff encourage pre-school children to recall and sequence familiar stories. Children join in with excitement as they act out stories and talk about going on adventures.

Knowledgeable staff support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. Extra funding is used to support specific children. Children benefit from the creation of a focus room, which provides a quiet space for small-group and one-to-one support.

This room supports children with communication and language delay to be able to listen carefully to words and sounds.Emotional development is a key focus area. Staff help children to learn the language of feelings.

They support children with emotional regulation progressively as they move through the age groups. Staff soothe babies. They ask them if they are sad, and cuddle them to make them happy.

Children share stories with staff about emotions and describe what makes them feel happy and angry. Older children are beginning to self-regulate. They relax as they watch fish swimming in the tank, or go to the indoor tent for some quiet time.

Children enjoy a range of activities to practise their physical skills indoors. Babies play on their tummies, crawl, bum shuffle and take their first tentative steps supported by staff. Toddlers ride cars around tracks, play with bats and balls and step across stepping stones.

Pre-school children join in with yoga and physical education sessions. However, the outdoor environment does not always provide children with challenge or opportunities that encourage them to safely negotiate risks.Staff build nurturing relationships with children from when they start.

They know their key children well. Staff identify next steps in children's development and carefully plan activities to help them reach them. They keep parents fully informed of children's progress through online learning journals, daily conversations and parent evenings.

Parents describe the setting as fantastic. The talk about heart-warming, dedicated staff who create a safe, enriching environment in which their children thrive. Parents state their children love attending and have made lots of friends.

Leadership and management are strong. Management completes regular supervision and health and well-being checks with staff. This ensures staff continue to be suitable to work with children.

Staff complete regular training to develop their knowledge and skills. However, sometimes the quality of teaching is not always consistent across age groups. Management has plans to further build on staff development to continually improve teaching and outcomes for children.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.The setting is safe and secure. All toys and resources are age appropriate and in excellent condition.

Management and staff follow robust safeguarding procedures. Management regularly reviews the settings policies and procedures and shares updates with staff and parents. There is a clear whistle-blowing process in place if staff have any concerns.

Daily and ongoing risk assessments completed by staff and children minimise risk and teach children how to identify potential hazards. Management provides information for parents about how to keep children safe online.

What does the setting need to do to improve?

To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: nenhance the outdoor environment to further support children's physical development and provide ambitious and more challenging experiences outdoors continue to monitor the quality of teaching to ensure it is consistently of a high level.