Kids Corner Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The provision is good

Children are happy and content in this well-organised and well-resourced setting.

As older children arrive, they greet staff and their friends with enthusiasm and settle quickly to their chosen play. Babies and toddlers are very settled and show positive relationships with key people. They enjoy cuddles and show that they feel safe and secure.

Pre-school children talk with each other and show a good range of spoken skills. Babies begin to babble as they play. Toddlers enjoy singing and action songs.

Children are confident and display high levels of emotional well-being. They show curiosity and enjoyment in the... activities on offer. Babies love the feeling of paint on their hands and show delight as they smear this across paper.

Children of all ages behave well and show a good understanding of what is asked of them. Staff are good role models and help children to manage any altercations that occur. Children show respect, listen to others and cooperate well with each other.

Children show a developing understanding of the world. Pre-school children talk animatedly with staff and visitors about forthcoming holidays. They know this is 'very far away' and that they will travel on a 'big plane'.

Children show excitement when they find a worm and snail outside. This leads to discussions about where they live and what they eat. Children handle these carefully and remind their friends to 'be careful' when they touch them.

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

Staff read to children and all children love to look at books. They show good listening skills when staff read to them. Pre-school children recall familiar stories and show delight as they talk to staff about the 'huge teeth' the wolf had.

Staff extend children's love of books. Parents are asked to take a book home each week to read to their child, and share feedback with staff on how this was enjoyed.Overall, staff support every child to develop their spoken skills well.

They offer narrative as children play and ask open questions to encourage children to respond. However, there are less opportunities for children who speak English as an additional language to use their home language during play and activities, to further support their development of speech.Staff help children to develop healthy lifestyles.

Children are taught to follow good hygiene routines and are offered a range of healthy and balanced food each day. They benefit from regular play outdoors and physical exercise. Staff talk to children about why the foods they eat are good for them and why washing their hands before eating food is important.

On the whole, partnerships with parents are good. Parents speak highly of the dedicated and caring staff team. They comment on how well their children are learning and how much they enjoy coming to the nursery.

However, staff do not gather enough information from parents about what children know and can do when they first start at the setting, to help inform planning and widen their experiences from the outset.The nursery staff are passionate and committed to providing good standards of care and learning. They are led effectively by a knowledgeable and skilled management team.

The management team has high expectations for both staff and children to be able to achieve to their highest level. Overall, managers know where weaknesses in the setting are and put good plans in place to improve practice. However, although the managers have begun to monitor staff practice, this is not embedded into practice to ensure teaching is of the highest quality.

Staff observe and assess the children as they play. They have a clear understanding of how children learn and develop and, overall, teaching is effective in helping every child to make good progress. Staff know them well and plan an interesting range of activities based on their needs, interests and next steps.

Staff talk to parents each day to learn about their child's experiences outside of the setting and are beginning to plan activities to build on this further.The key-person system is firmly embedded and used effectively to ensure that all children feel safe and secure in their surroundings. Relationships between children and staff are good.

As a result, children are confident and display high levels of emotional well-being. They show curiosity and enjoyment in the activities on offer.Staff ensure children have good access to toys that promote children's imagination and social skills.

Pre-school children sit and play with a china tea set. They pretend to pour out tea for each other, stir and sip from the cups.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

Secure procedures are implemented to ensure that staff working with children are suitable to do so. Staff are asked to declare their ongoing suitably during regular supervising meetings. The management team and staff regularly attend training in child protection and wider safeguarding issues.

They know and understand the procedures to follow if they have a concern for a child. Robust risk assessments are in place, along with daily checks, to ensure all areas children have access to are safe and secure.

What does the setting need to do to improve?

To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: nuse every opportunity to help children hear and use their home language during play and activities, to further support their development of speech gather more precise information from parents when children first start at the setting, in order to inform the curriculum and enhance children's experiences from the outset monitor staff more effectively in order to help develop their good teaching skills further still.

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