Kendor Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The provision is good

Children settle well in this caring and organised nursery.

Staff interact warmly and build strong relationships with children. They listen attentively to children and link their interests to activities. Staff recognise each child as an individual and value them highly.

This helps children to feel happy and settled. Staff manage children's behaviour well and have high expectations of them. They share the rules in the nursery with children and explain why some behaviour is not acceptable.

Children behave well.Staff deliver a creative and stimulating curriculum to help all children to make good progress. Staff su...pport children's imaginative skills successfully.

Children select, measure, mix and scoop ingredients into a bowl and make their own dough. Younger children enjoy the effects of splashing water in shallow trays and enjoy making marks on paper using coloured chalk. Children gain good creative skills.

Staff support children's awareness of feelings effectively. Children enjoy making different emotion faces using felt pieces, and staff read stories to help children to understand different emotions. They teach children good mathematical skills.

Staff incorporate counting and naming of shapes in different activities, such as home corner play and songs about numbers. They teach children mathematical language, such as 'heavy' and 'light' to compare quantities.

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

Children gain good communication, language and literacy skills.

Staff make storytelling sessions interesting by using props, such as puppets, and question children effectively. They teach children new words as they sing action rhymes and songs.Children learn to do things for themselves, such as putting on their coats and boots to go outdoors.

They prepare their own fruit snacks, for example peeling bananas and satsumas. Younger children learn to feed themselves, and all children help to tidy up. Staff teach children how to share and to take turns, for instance while using musical instruments.

Staff work effectively with parents and carers and keep them up to date on their children's progress in flexible ways. They provide good ways for parents to support their children's learning. For example, parents borrow books from the nursery to support children's language skills.

Leaders monitor and support staff well. They spend time working in group rooms to model good practice. Leaders observe staff and offer advice and support to improve their practice, where needed.

They meet with staff individually and regularly to review their work and set targets for development. Leaders discuss training needs with staff and identify relevant courses for them.For instance, staff have attended a course on behaviour management, which has led to further awareness in this area.

Leaders evaluate all aspects of the nursery and set relevant goals for improvements. For instance, they plan to continue to enhance the outdoor area to support children's learning.Children develop a good understanding of the world.

Staff walk around the garden with children to discover worms and other minibeasts, which they teach children about. Staff plant tomatoes and broad beans with children and teach them how things grow. They encourage children to observe and name birds they see in the garden.

Staff maintain good levels of safety for children. Leaders carry out a series of background checks on staff as part of the recruitment process. Staff teach children how to act with care and caution, for instance in relation to road safety awareness.

Children bring packed lunches, which staff store appropriately. Staff provide parents with helpful healthy eating guides and ensure that children have access to fresh drinking water throughout the day.Overall, children have enjoyable outdoor learning experiences and staff support their physical development effectively.

Children enjoy climbing onto giant tyres and balance along planks. Younger children push wheeled toys as they learn to walk and crawl through tunnels. Children develop good physical skills.

However, staff do not consistently consider how to provide activities related to the wider curriculum, such as mathematics and literacy, to support those children who learn best outdoors.Staff have started to teach children about oral hygiene awareness, for example through informative discussion. However, this area has not been fully promoted to help children learn how to keep their teeth and gums healthy.

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: nenhance the outdoor area to support those children who learn best outdoors to access a wider curriculum, including mathematics and literacy promote children's awareness of oral hygiene more fully.

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