Little Poppets Nursery Ltd

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The provision is good

Children arrive happy and ready to start their day at nursery.

They settle quickly finding their favourite activity. Staff are attentive and supportive of children's needs. Children form strong bonds with staff, helping them to feel safe and secure, and effectively building their well-being.

Staff have high expectations of children's behaviour. There are effective strategies in place to remind children to be kind to each other and share. Children offer their friends toys and kindness is celebrated warmly by staff, giving praise and encouragement throughout.

Staff join in with children's play. They help facilit...ate their learning by offering toys and activities that they know children are interested in. Children develop their physical skills as they explore a range of stimulating activities in the garden.

They clamber up steps to the treehouse, and demonstrate good coordination skills as they expertly throw balls into basketball nets. Staff interact positively with children. They encourage them to talk about their home experiences, which supports children's communication and recall skills.

Staff help children to build on their knowledge of the world around them. They encourage children to make observations in the environment. In the garden children uncover ants under logs.

They use magnifying glasses to examine the ants more closely. Staff encourage children to count how many ants they can see and how many legs they have.

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

Children are helped to progress well with their language and communication skills.

Staff consistently build on what older children say. They provide new words that enables children to speak with increasing confidence, and communicate effectively with each other.Overall the curriculum is ambitious, relevant and helps prepare children for the next stage in their education.

However, some aspects of the curriculum are not currently implemented as well as they could be. As a result, some younger children do not receive a wide enough range of experiences to help them make rapid progress.Staff support children to be independent.

For example, toddlers practise using tongs as they scoop up fresh fruit to serve themselves snack. Older children become confident and independent in using the toilet and washing their hands afterwards.Interactions with children overall are positive.

Staff support older children to build on their knowledge and understanding, providing new information and concepts to help them learn. However, arrangements for the support and coaching of staff are not always targeted to help them improve their teaching skills. Consequently, some younger children do not always receive high-quality interactions to help them build on what they know and can already do.

The highly dedicated special educational needs coordinator (SENDco) works closely with other professionals to ensure that children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) progress well. The SENDco uses specialised targeted plans to help children with SEND, to make the progress that they are capable of. The effective use of additional funding enables children to access the high quality resources and activities in place.

The manager ensures that menus are well balanced and nutritious for children. She ensures that she provides additional information to parents about healthy diets and oral care. Children learn how to look after their teeth as staff support them to brush their teeth following lunch.

Children are familiar with the routine and talk confidently about their recent visit to a dentist.Staff act as good role models to children. They offer praise when children are kind and thoughtful to their friends, saying Good job!.

Staff encourage children to share and take turns. They use timers with older children so that they learn to understand when it is time to share a toy with their friend. Children understand the daily routines and expectations for behaviour.

They listen respectfully to staff as they give them gentle direction.Partnerships with parents are strong. Staff provide frequent updates on their children's progress.

Parents are regularly invited to share their feedback about the nursery. They comment that the 'friendly and caring' staff build effective relationships with their children. Additionally, they say that the nursery prepares children very well for school.

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: strengthen the implementation of the curriculum to support younger children to make rapid progress strengthen the support and coaching offered to staff to better target gaps in their teaching practice.