Cute Kids Montessori Nursery School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The provision is inadequate

Children's well-being is compromised due to weaknesses in leadership and management. Staff deployment is ineffective. Staff are often left on their own, caring for children while their colleagues leave the room to change nappies or prepare meals.

During these times, staff left supervising the children struggle, due to the number of children they are left to care for. In addition, they do not ensure that they keep children safe. The provider does not take appropriate action to safeguard children.

Staff do not have a good enough understanding of what to do should they suspect a child is at risk of harm. This includ...es what to do if they have a concern about a colleague's behaviour or practice. The provider does not take appropriate steps to verify that people working with children are suitable for their role.

The curriculum is poorly implemented and does not meet the needs of the children. This includes those children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and those children who speak English as an additional language (EAL). Staff do not know how to support children's emotional well-being or manage their behaviour appropriately.

Children quarrel over toys and equipment and become upset but most of the time staff fail to recognise this or appropriately support them. This has a negative impact on children's understanding about their own emotions and behaviours and how they impact on others. Despite these poor practices, most children appear to enjoy their time at the nursery.

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

The designated safeguarding lead of the provision shows a lack of understanding about safeguarding and child protection. She has not considered the impact on the safety of children when leaving a member of staff unsupervised with children whose suitability is in question. Furthermore, she demonstrates a lack of understanding or compliance with the local safeguarding partnership.

The provider lacks understanding of how to check that qualifications are full and relevant to the childcare role. This impacts on how staff are deployed to meet ratio requirements. As a result, staff are unable to meet children's needs.

Additionally, children who are hiding go unnoticed by staff. This compromises the children's learning as well as their safety.The quality of teaching is poor.

Staff deployment has a negative impact on the teaching children receive. They do not consider children's interests and abilities when implementing the curriculum. Staff are aware of strategies to support children with SEND.

However, they do not provide targeted support to challenge children and extend their learning, including when children would benefit from extra help. Staff fail to interact with the children, meaning they are often left to play by themselves.Parents comment positively on how their children settle at the nursery and their transition to school.

Staff use electronic messaging systems to share pictures and daily updates about what children do at the nursery. There are end of term parent meetings to help parents know where their children are in their learning.Staff know some children's next steps in learning.

However, they do not use this information effectively and do not always know the learning intentions of the activities they plan. Children explore the resources contentedly, but some do not engage in purposeful play and learning. Most children soon lose interest in activities and wander away.

This has a negative impact on children's attitude towards learning. Children are bored and restless.Staff do not effectively support children to understand expected behaviours and boundaries to ensure their safety.

Children climb on furniture without staff noticing immediately. When they become aware, they tell them to get off without any further explanation or providing an alternative. This results in children climbing on the furniture again.

This does not support children's learning and understanding about expected behaviours and safety.Staff follow inappropriate hygiene procedures. They do not support children's good health and learning about personal hygiene.

Staff place children on a broken changing mat or cover the broken changing mat with the same blanket to change all children. Furthermore, staff pour water over children's hands before lunch without using any soap for children to wash their hands after play and before they have their meal. This shows that hygiene procedures are poor and children's personal hygiene is not effectively supported.

This is a potential risk to children's health and cross infection.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are not effective.There is not an open and positive culture around safeguarding that puts children's interests first.

What does the setting need to do to improve?

The provision is inadequate and Ofsted intends to take enforcement action.

We will issue a Welfare Requirements Notice requiring the provider to: Due date ensure all staff, including leaders, have a secure understanding of the setting's safeguarding policies and procedures to meet children's welfare needs at all times, especially in the event of an allegation against any individual working with children 25/06/2024 ensure that you take appropriate steps to verify the qualifications of people working with children and that they are suitable for their role 25/06/2024 ensure that all staff receive appropriate training and professional development opportunities to ensure they offer quality learning and development experiences for children that continually improves 25/06/2024 deploy staff to adequately supervise children, keep them safe, engaged in learning and meet their individual needs 25/06/2024 ensure that there is a named deputy and that the person left in charge is suitable to work with children 25/06/2024 ensure the total number of staff available to work directly with children meets the staff:child ratio requirements according to the age of children being cared for 25/06/2024 ensure suitable behaviour management strategies are being used by all staff to ensure this promotes children's emotional well-being 25/06/2024 ensure that there are appropriate arrangements in place to support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) 25/06/2024 ensure that facilities for personal and intimate care are clean to help promote the health and safety of children 25/06/2024 implement appropriate health and hygiene procedures to prevent cross infection, and to support the good health of children.25/06/2024 To meet the requirements of the early years foundation stage, the provider must: Due date ensure that leaders and staff understand and know how to implement the curriculum effectively.

21/08/2024