Blooming Years Nursery Schools

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The provider, who is also the manager, evaluates the quality of the nursery well.

She considers the views of staff, parents and children and has a clear vision and plan to continually improve the provision and outcomes for children. • The managers monitor and track the progress of individual children and different groups well. This helps them to identify and address any gaps in learning swiftly.

For example, where children are identified as requiring additional support, staff develop individual support plans to help them catch up quickly. • Staff are caring and friendly. There is a well established key-person system, which helps children to form ...strong relationships.

Children show they are happy and secure in their environment. • Staff provide a broad range of accessible resources where children can make independent choices in their play and learning. All children, including those who speak English as an additional language and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) make good progress from their starting points.

• Children behave well. Staff successfully share their behavioural expectations with children, such as through gentle reminders. This helps them to develop strong emotional attachments and to build new friendships.

• On occasion, staff interrupt children's thought processes as they play. They do not give them all opportunities to make their own discoveries and investigate things for themselves. • At times, staff in the toddler room do not organise all routines in the best possible way to maximise all opportunities to support children's learning even further and help them make the best possible progress.

information about their child's care and interests at home. They fully value parent

involvement throughout their child's time at the nursery. Staff complete regular and precise assessments of children.

They use this information effectively to plan appropriate opportunities for the next stage in their development. Staff support children's early literacy skills well. For example, they provide babies and toddlers with a range of opportunities to make marks, such as with crayons and as part of messy play.

Older children follow picture instructions and successfully complete construction models. They learn to work together, share and show respect for one another. Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good Staff take time to settle children into the nursery and make sure they meet children's individual care needs well from the start.

Children learn how to keep themselves safe. For example, they use equipment outside, including ride-on toys, to help develop their balance. Toddlers transport water across the garden in a variety of ways.

They enjoy washing their cars and run their diggers through the sand. This helps to support their developing physical skills. Staff support children to develop healthy lifestyles effectively.

For example, they provide nutritious meals and discuss the benefits of eating well. Children develop their understanding of the wider world. For example, they enjoy outings into the local community, such as to the park.

Pre-school children show a good understanding of why and how objects are recycled and think about what the new material could be used for. Outcomes for children are good All children develop the skills they need in readiness for the next stage in their learning, including their move on to school. They show growing independence, such as putting their coats on ready to play outside and serving themselves at snack time.

Pre-school children learn to write their name and use writing tools with good control. Toddlers learn to use words as they engage in play. Babies become excited and have fun, such as clapping their hands during rhyme times.