Parklanes Wykeham Childcare Ltd.

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The provision is good

The managers and staff provide a welcoming and nurturing learning environment where children feel safe and secure. Children thoroughly enjoy their time at the nursery.

They are enthusiastic and engaged in their learning. They arrive in good spirits and are eager to learn. Staff offer plenty of cuddles and reassurance.

Children learn to tend to their own personal needs with gentle encouragement and support. Staff provide a curriculum tailored to children's individual learning needs and build on their current interests. Children use their imagination well as they pretend to be pirates on a pirate ship.

They have... ample opportunities to develop their physical development. They manoeuvre themselves on scooters, bicycles and ride-on cars. Children enjoy singing nursery rhymes.

As staff pose questions and make suggestions, children become more inquisitive to find answers. For instance, children explore cutting and peeling onions and notice it does not make their eyes water. Children thoroughly enjoy dancing to music.

They clap their hands and laugh loudly. Children have rich experiences. They explore potatoes in soil and use a vacuum cleaner to pick up coloured rice spilled on the ground in the garden.

Children behave well. They understand how to keep themselves and each other safe.

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

There is genuine care given by staff to support children's emotional well-being.

Staff attentively address the needs of children. Children receive encouragement and praise when they attempt to do things for themselves. Overall, they behave well because they know what is expected of them.

They take turns and share as staff coach them in these skills.Staff skilfully support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. They work closely with parents and other professionals, and have formed strong bonds with other settings to find out the best possible ways to support children.

Parents describe the support they receive from the nursery staff as 'invaluable' and 'do not know what they would have done without their support'.Children are full of energy and highly active indoors and outdoors. They engage in yoga sessions, find quiet areas to look at books, take part in singing nursery rhymes, and taste, smell and weigh fruits and vegetables.

Children crinkle their faces and say, 'Lemons taste sour'. However, on occasions, staff do not extend children's learning enough due to the high needs of other children.Children show a positive attitude to learning.

They experience safe risks and challenges. Younger children climb onto soft blocks and jump off with adult assistance. Older children balance and then jump off large tyres, climb large apparatus and slide down the slide with confidence.

Managers take the happiness and well-being of staff members very seriously. As a result, they retain highly experienced staff who have been at the setting for a long time. Staff receive regular coaching and supervision from the management team.

Managers look for ways to help staff improve their knowledge and teaching skills. Staff have a wealth of knowledge between them and attend new training courses regularly. Children benefit from the expert teaching skills that each staff member brings.

The manager and staff provide children with a well-planned curriculum overall. They use effective systems to assess children's good progress. They consider children's individual interests and next steps in learning when planning activities.

Children's progress is tracked closely so gaps in learning are swiftly addressed. However, at times, children's independence is not promoted consistently during mealtimes.Partnership with parents is very strong.

Parents speak highly about the nursery and staff. They feel that their children are safe and cared for well. Staff help parents to understand their children's development and how they can support their learning at home.

Managers use funding to support children's communication and language development further, to help narrow any gaps in children's learning and increase their levels of confidence. They use repetition and act as good role models for communication. Children begin to communicate more effectively through focus activities.

They tell jokes and discuss their families.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.The managers ensure that all staff undertake safeguarding training.

Staff know the action they must take if they have a concern about a child. They know the signs and symptoms to look for and the procedures to follow if they have any concerns about a child's welfare. Robust recruitment and vetting systems are in place to ensure the suitability of staff.

Staff carry out risk assessments to ensure potential risks are managed effectively. They ensure that the required adult-to-child ratio is maintained at all times.

What does the setting need to do to improve?

To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: nincrease opportunities for all children's learning to be extended to further progress develop children's independence during mealtimes.