Green Lane Nursery and Childcare Centre

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The provision is outstanding

The learning environment inspires children's natural curiosity and they are keen to lead their own play. The calm environment is organised to provide children with outstanding experiences and activities, indoors and outdoors, to enthral and inspire curiosity and exploration. Leaders and staff have high expectations of all children.

Children who are identified at working at lower than expected levels are supported to make rapid progress in their learning and development. Staff prioritise children's early communication and language to the highest possible levels. They use exceptional questioning techniques to support child...ren to share their own ideas and suggestions in their play.

Staff are excellent role models. They set high behavioural expectations. Children behave exceptionally well.

For example, they have a strong understanding of fairness and confidently negotiate turn taking with their friends. Children use white boards to write their names to support the sharing of resources that are more popular. They maintain excellent concentration for extremely long periods in purposeful activities.

Children are superbly well prepared to develop the skills for future learning. They are highly motivated and enthusiastically volunteer to take part in tasks, such as washing up snack dishes. Children are supervised well by the staff, who help them to develop tremendous self-sufficiency skills.

They support children to learn to use tools and equipment safely. For instance, children demonstrate immense self-assurance in using an electric toaster to make toast for their snack.

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

Staff understand the significance of children's home lives and experiences.

They have an excellent knowledge of what children know and can do. Staff effortlessly follow children's emerging interests and support them highly effectively to meet their full potential.Staff provide exceptional support for children in their communication skills, including their critical thinking, speaking and listening skills.

They offer highly effective support in helping children to take part in practical experiments. For instance, staff encouraged children to jump up and down and consolidate their understanding that gravity makes their feet stay firmly on the floor. Children are keen to learn and explore new concepts.

Staff use some incredibly innovative ideas to support children's learning and understanding. For example, they float lemons and limes on the water in a container so younger children can easily see the water level rise and understand about capacity.The staff team has an extremely sharp focus on encouraging children to develop excellent confidence and self-esteem.

For example, as children made space rockets, staff commented that they like what children are doing. Staff promote children's thinking skills highly successfully by asking searching questions to encourage children to give them directions to make a similar object.Children's learning experiences are superbly enhanced through an extensive range of visits into the local community, for example to castles and museums.

Staff offer children excellent opportunities to develop their physical skills, such as attending weekly swimming sessions.Staff provide an inclusive environment where the uniqueness of each child is celebrated and opportunities for learning about the wider world are abundant. For example, well-thought-out resources and the planning of the environment challenge gender stereotyping.

Children show they are learning respect for others extremely well.Leaders ensure staff receive highly effective professional development. This translates into highly effective improvements in the planning of the curriculum.

Reflection on practice is fully embedded within the knowledgeable staff team. Staff reflect carefully on how their interventions have an impact on children's learning. Leaders regularly observe staff practice to ensure high quality is maintained.

Leaders and the staff team are highly committed to achieving the best possible outcomes for children. Areas for development are reflective and highly reactive to the constantly evolving needs of children and families who attend the nursery. Leaders and staff meticulously analyse information about children's progress to ensure outstanding levels of achievement.

They conduct rigorous research on innovative concepts to support their practice and recognise the need to enrich children's learning experiences continually to promote outcomes.Leaders and staff continually strive for additional ways to involve parents in their children's learning and their time at the nursery, securing an ever-increasing collaborative approach to children's learning and development. For example, parents and carers are regularly welcomed into the setting for regular stay and play or craft sessions.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.Leaders and staff have a comprehensive understanding of child protection procedures and their individual responsibilities to help protect children from harm. The provider ensures that all staff and directors keep their safeguarding knowledge up to date.

Leaders and staff continually review and update policies and procedures in line with changes to legislation or local authority requirements. They are highly aware of indicators that children and families may be in need, and act quickly to ensure that families receive the support they require. The provider has rigorous recruitment and induction procedures to help ensure the continued suitability of staff.

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