Mia Rose Nursery Mitcheldean

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The provision is good

Children are at the heart of all that happens in this warm and nurturing learning environment. They are very happy, settle quickly and display high levels of confidence.

Extremely caring staff forge very secure attachments with children and babies. This supports children's emotional well-being effectively. Children's behaviour is exceptionally good.

Staff are very positive role models. They are calm and gentle when speaking and give clear instructions to children. Children know what is expected of them and respond well to the staff's continual encouragement.

They take turns, share well and are kind to each oth...er, staff and visitors.Children and babies learn happily as they confidently explore their environment and know to seek out help and reassurance when needed. Staff ensure children's social skills are well developed.

For example, they help younger children to recognise their own achievements and good behaviour, such as successfully using a cup without a lid and cutting up their own fruit for snack. Older children show kindness to younger children. They are quick to offer their help and readily include them in their play.

Children consistently make their own decisions during play and are extremely confident and resilient.

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

Leaders and staff devote their full attention to children's care and emotional well-being. They continually make improvements to the nursery.

For example, staff recognised the potential to help children understand the benefits from meditation and yoga and arranged suitable training for staff. This, along with small nurture groups, has helped raise outcomes for children's emotional well-being, particularly for older children.Staff deliver a motivating curriculum that engages children's interest and that supports them to make good progress in their learning.

Teaching of older children is very good and precisely focused on helping children to think critically. Staff make the most of incidental opportunities to help children persevere when they encounter challenges in their play. For instance, they use motivating messages, such as 'Well done, you are a 'Persevering Parrott'.

Although the quality of teaching of staff working with younger children is consistently good, staff miss chances to fully engage them in activities and routines, so that they get the best learning experiences possible at such times. Additionally, throughout the nursery, some staff do not help children build on what children already know to extend their mathematical language and their understanding of the links between letters and sounds.Staff provide a good variety of resources and activities, indoors and outdoors, to encourage children to experiment and create.

For instance, children make their own modelling dough with flour, salt and water and choose to add other ingredients, such as herbs and food colouring. Children show good thinking, imagination and language skills. For example, when talking about what to choose next, children said, 'Let's make a vote' and used 'voting cubes' to make a fair decision together.

Staff give good attention to promoting children's health and plan activities to build their understanding of the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. For example, staff provided a human tooth and children soaked it in milk and then a well-known fizzy drink. Children talked about how the milk helped it stay white and the fizzy drink made it go bad and black.

They told the inspector, 'You must clean your teeth twice a day for two minutes each time'. This helps children's growing understanding of good hygiene practices.Parents speak very highly of the nursery and the very caring staff.

They especially appreciate the regular feedback on their children's learning and the suggestions for activities they can do at home. They say they find the song and story videos with hand signs and actions that staff share online very useful and really help their children to continue to learn at home.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

Leaders' strong recruitment and induction procedures help ensure the continued suitability of staff. They make sure staff keep their child protection up to date. All staff know the signs that may indicate a child is at risk of harm.

They understand how to identify and report concerns about children's welfare. Staff carry out regular risk assessments and monthly accident analysis to identify and remove any potential hazards for children. They help children learn to manage their own safety.

For example, children know not to share their allocated modelling dough with others because of cross-contamination and know they must wash their hands when they come in from playing outdoors. Leaders have acted swiftly to address any concerns during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic to keep children, staff and parents as safe as possible.

What does the setting need to do to improve?

To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: nimprove staff interactions with younger children to fully engage and challenge them, so that they get the best learning experiences possible to bring about rapid progress make the most of all chances to develop and extend children's mathematical language and their understanding of the links between letters and the sounds they make.