Raised in Bristol

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The provision is good

Children arrive excited, happy and eager to play with their friends. Highly skilled staff provide a warm welcome and children settle quickly.

Babies part easily from their parents and form trusting relationships with their familiar key person. Nurturing staff are responsive to babies' smiles and babbles. They cuddle babies on the sofa, talk to them and sing songs.

Staff are kind and calm in their approach to children. They are good role models and teach children by example to share and be kind to each other. As a result, children's behaviour is exemplary.

There is a strong focus on children making decisions ab...out what they do and where they play. Staff try not to interrupt children when they are engrossed in their learning. This is demonstrated when children can choose when they have their morning snack.

Staff gather useful information about children's interests and stage of development effectively. They provide exciting and interesting activities. Younger children thoroughly enjoy exploring shaving foam.

Older children negotiate with each other as they construct a crane. Children choose to be inside or outside and have lots of opportunities to be physically active. Staff promote children's independence.

Children hang up their coats, pour their drinks and serve themselves at lunchtime. The community centre next door provides healthy and nutritious food. Children's dietary needs are met very well.

The nursery implements a nut-free policy to help keep children safe.

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

Parents are extremely complimentary about the 'welcoming, supportive and caring staff'. They report that their children love going to the nursery and do not want to go home.

They value the useful feedback provided about their children's learning and development. Parents state that their children have come on 'in leaps and bounds', and they say how lucky they are to have found the 'wonderful, unique and inspirational nursery'.Staff meet the individual needs of babies very well.

They provide a bright, safe and clean environment for babies to explore. Babies enjoy looking through the well-placed window to see the older children downstairs. Staff ensure that babies' home routines are followed exceptionally well.

For example, staff play familiar sounds, such as white noise in the background, which helps babies settle in cots or coracles. Staff are intuitive to babies' needs and make sure they are well cared for and happy. Mealtimes are social occasions where babies sit on low chairs at the table with staff.

Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are supported well by staff to make good progress in their learning and development. Staff liaise appropriately with other professionals to ensure the right support is in place to meet children's individual needs.The committed, dedicated and enthusiastic staff feel valued and work exceptionally well as a team.

The manager has a good overview of what works well and areas for development. For example, she recognised that boys were not accessing books, so she moved some from the book corner to other areas of the nursery. As a result, boys' attainment in literacy has improved.

Overall, the quality of teaching is good. Staff take a genuine interest in what children do and say. They speak to children in full sentences, and children love to listen to stories and sing songs.

This helps increase children's vocabulary as they learn new words. Although staff provide interesting and exciting activities, they do not consistently seize on teachable moments to extend children's learning even further.Although children are allocated a named member of staff to teach and care for them, the system to ensure a buddy person is available is not consistently effective.

As a result, staff do not always know what interests children or what they are capable of achieving. This results in some children not being fully engaged in their learning.Children are well prepared for the next stage in their learning and their move to school.

Staff accompany children to the local school, and teachers visit the nursery. Children are confident to ask for help. They concentrate, listen and take turns.

They have a can-do attitude and persevere with tasks. For example, children work out how to remove a dinosaur from a net. Staff provide lots of praise and encouragement to help children solve problems for themselves.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.Staff know the action to take if they have a concern about a child's welfare. They have also completed training on wider safeguarding issues.

The premises are secure and only known adults can collect their children. Staff teach children to be safe. Children use and carry scissors safely so they do not hurt others.

Children are reminded to walk when inside the building. Spills are quickly cleaned up so they do not present a hazard.

What does the setting need to do to improve?

To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: make sure staff consistently seize teaching opportunities to provide the best possible learning experiences for children nimprove the key-person system further to ensure all children's individual needs are consistently met.