Jubilee Gems

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The provision is outstanding

Children thrive at this wonderful nursery. They are greeted with exceptional warmth and genuine enthusiasm by staff that know them extremely well.

The dedicated staff team take time to talk to parents and share detailed information that may benefit children's experiences at nursery. Staff's committed, passionate and caring approach ensures children settle quickly into the routines. The nursery's unique, ambitious and bespoke curriculum is securely embedded in staff's teaching and planning.

The strong focus on the environment and nature creates a varied and highly engaging curriculum. Children of all ages demonst...rate high levels of curiosity. Staff maximise all opportunities to extend children's learning.

Their excellent implementation ensures children have the emotional resilience to build on their independence skills and develop a passion for learning and exploring. This helps all children to make exceptional progress from their starting points, especially those with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those with additional support. In the baby room, staff place a high emphasis on forming meaningful relationships.

This helps babies to feel safe and secure and eager to explore their calm environment. Babies and toddlers show a love of books and many sensory experiences as they explore different textures, tools, and materials in their summer beach themed activities. Older children relish the wealth of outdoor experiences to the woodland, farm, and forest school areas.

Children benefit from these rich opportunities to learn about the world around them and to be physically active. Furthermore, they grow vegetables and plants, build on their language and have opportunities to learn about taking risks in a safe environment. Children are extremely motivated to take part in the stimulating and fun experiences that staff have carefully considered to enhance their learning.

Children know they are listened to, and staff take an honest interest in what children are telling them. This helps children to build on their excellent trusting relationships with staff.

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

Leaders are highly ambitious and reflective of the quality of the care and the education provided.

They demonstrate clear vision for the future and continuously strive to adapt the environment and practice, to give children better outcomes in their learning and development.The curriculum is planned and sequenced to ensure that children practise and embed each step of learning throughout the nursery. For example, babies engage in many sensory experiences and explore a range of cooking equipment.

Toddlers begin to use imaginative play to pretend they are baking. They delight in experiences when filling, pouring and scooping with a variety of tools. Older children are introduced to baking and they progress to independently following a simple recipe, to bake a cake.

In this way, children develop important skills they will need for their future learning.Staff have high expectations of the children in their care. They work hard to ensure that children have the very best experiences.

Children are regular visitors at the local library, residential nursing home and church. These experiences help children to respect themselves, others and develop a deeper understanding of the world around them.Children are consistently supported to develop communication and language to their highest potential.

Staff provide a language-rich environment. They sing familiar songs and read with enthusiasm, which captures and maintains the children's attention. Staff empower children to express themselves.

This helps children to communicate and manage their own feelings because staff have taught them to regulate their behaviour so well. As a result, children's behaviour is exceptional.Staff use every opportunity to seamlessly incorporate mathematics into all activities.

Children count how many pieces of dough they have. They confidently identify shapes they observe in their environment and compare weight and the sizes of different containers in their water play. In this way, children make very good progress in their mathematical development.

Staff receive excellent support from the nursery's special educational needs coordinator (SENCO). However, all leaders and staff provide excellent support for children on the pathway to diagnosis and are extremely knowledgeable about all the children who attend. The SENCO works closely with each child's key person, family, and relevant agencies to ensure children receive targeted support and appropriate interventions to meet their individual needs.

Staff provide excellent support to children and their families through various initiatives. They provide a lending library to enable families to read together and offer guidance and advice on various topics, such as a new baby or new house. Parents value the staff team highly and appreciate the support given.

Parents report that 'every child matters' and 'children are at the heart'. Furthermore, they comment that the staff have significantly contributed to the progress children make.Leaders show the highest regard for their staff team.

They give clear direction and encourage staff to develop their skills and knowledge. Regular training and very effective reflection ensure that staff's knowledge is up to date. Staff comment they feel fully supported by leaders through open discussions and regular supervisions.

This helps build staff morale and strengthens the team, who work exceptionally well together.

Safeguarding

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