Children’s Corner Childcare LLP (Granary Wharf)

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The provision is good

Children eagerly arrive at this welcoming and inclusive setting.

Staff greet their key children at the door and share information with parents. This helps to build strong parent partnerships at the setting. Children settle into their day quickly and explore the environment with interest.

Staff pay close attention to children's feelings and provide reassurance when they need it. Children start to recognise their emotions from a young age. For example, staff provide children with language to name their feelings.

This helps children to understand and regulate their emotions. Children have a strong sense of emotio...nal well-being. Leaders have high expectations for all children.

They plan a curriculum to support children in all areas of learning. Leaders and staff use this curriculum to plan meaningful learning experiences that ignite children's interests. For example, older children explore the colourful chickpeas as they experiment with scooping them onto a spoon.

This helps children's physical development as they practise their grip and hand control. Staff consider ways to develop children's understanding of the world around them. They provide opportunities for children to actively engage with their community.

For instance, children visit the local market and learn more about the different cultures that are represented in their setting. This helps children to feel a sense of belonging.

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

Staff use songs, stories and rhymes throughout the day to engage children.

Babies and younger children practise sounds as they decide which animal to be in the song. They jump up together and 'roar' like a lion. Initiatives such as 'the book of the month' help children to develop their understanding of a carefully selected story.

Older children remember different parts of the story as they read it together. This helps all children to develop their communication and language skills.Staff use their knowledge of what children know and can do to identify any gaps in children's learning.

The setting works closely with parents and other agencies to support children to make the best possible progress in their learning. This includes providing ideas to support children's communication and language at home. This helps all children to be ready for the next stage in their learning.

Children develop a strong sense of self in the setting. Each child's uniqueness is celebrated. For example, diversity is celebrated in the setting by finding out more about children's cultures and home languages.

Staff learn from parents to develop their understanding of a range of languages to support children who speak English as an additional language. This helps children to feel emotionally secure with staff and form good bonds.Children develop their curiosity through a range of learning experiences.

For example, children use the cars on the narrow chute to see how fast they will go. Staff use questions to build on children's learning. However, there are times when staff answer their own questions without giving children enough thinking time.

As a result, children do not always get the opportunity to further develop their critical thinking skills.Children develop their independence from a young age. Babies make choices about the coat they will wear outside and find their shoes before they go in the garden.

Older children use the utensils to serve themselves at lunchtime. This helps children to be more confident and independent as they prepare for their next stage in learning.Staff encourage children to be kind and caring towards each other.

From a young age, children develop their personal and social skills as they play. For example, staff support children as they take it in turns to use the water tap. Children happily wait for their turn and decide together who should go next.

This helps children's positive and calm behaviour in the setting.Leaders have good oversight of the setting. They continually reflect on what is working well and what could be improved.

They provide a range of professional development opportunities to staff. However, staff are not always able to identify the targeted training they require to further support their practice. As a result, staff are not clear on what they need to do to extend their practice and skills even further.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.There is an open and positive culture around safeguarding that puts children's interests first.

What does the setting need to do to improve?

To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: nallow children more time to find their own answers and further develop their critical thinking skills further develop staff supervision arrangements so that training and development needs are identified that will most effectively extend staff's practice.