Tiptoes Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The provision is good

Visits into the community enable children to experience a range of occurrences and broaden their perspectives. For example, visits to a local residential home, and their celebrations and events, enable children to know about other generations and their interests.The key-worker system enables children who may have difficulties separating from their caregivers to quickly enter into the routine of the day.

Staff provide such children with 'support boxes' to bring in their belongings to talk to their friends about. Staff offer reassurance and successfully distract children to enable them to settle and interact with their friends.St...aff expertly provide children with a clear understanding of the routine of the day.

They use visual aids and displays to demonstrate to children what is going to happen next. This supports children with English as an additional language and additional needs well. It enables children to feel secure in the setting and included in all aspects of nursery life.

Children's behaviour is very good. Older children know and understand the class rules. They learn about showing empathy towards their friends.

Staff act as excellent role models, using respectful interactions with the children. They remind children about using good manners and offer praise routinely.

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

A well-thought-out curriculum ensures all children are able to make good progress in their learning.

Adaptations to the curriculum ensure all children can participate in a wide range of educational opportunities. Management identifies action to be taken to strengthen all areas of the curriculum and this is evident in the implementation by staff.Staff are consistently strong in promoting communication and vocabulary.

They use sign language throughout the nursery to enable children to communicate and express themselves. This supports those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and English as an additional language particularly well. Staff ensure children with speech and language delays are enrolled onto specific pathways to help them develop their language further.

They ensure they use strategies as advised to continuously promote children's language development.As identified by leaders as a development area in the curriculum, staff have worked hard to improve children's mathematical understanding. As a result, counting and exploring quantities is routinely embedded within children's play.

Staff use a range of mathematical language and spatial descriptions as they talk to children. Older children are able to identify numbers and count digits on their hands independently.Children have ample opportunities to develop their fine and gross motor skills.

Outdoor play is frequently accessed where children have opportunities to mark make and play throwing and catching games. Children invite staff into their imaginary play as they hide in crates and make themselves small. They practise their balancing skills as they walk on the crates with outstretched arms, encouraged by staff.

Children learn about healthy eating by planting, growing and talking about healthy food choices. The nursery recipe book enables parents to continue healthy eating options in the home. Children's understanding about health is further developed as they brush their teeth, encouraged to brush up and down, backwards and forwards.

Children's independence is promoted well. Children know to wash their hands before eating and after outdoor play. They are able to self-serve their food and open their own yoghurts.

However, further planning and preparation are required during the lunchtime process in the pre-school, to prevent delays in children settling down to eat.Leaders have clear plans for future development. They seek feedback from others to inform their plans.

Leaders use supervision to reflect on staff practice and development. They focus on the mental health and well-being of staff. This investment ensures staff feel valued and supported.

Regular supervisions ensure staff training is at the forefront and benefits children greatly in their learning and development.Children with SEND are supported extremely well. Staff know the children well and how they want them to develop and progress.

They understand their individual needs and how to ensure they are fully included in the nursery. Staff work with other professionals as required.Staff support parents to navigate through various issues at home, offering advice and activities to aid sleep routines, feeding issues and managing children's behaviour.

They provide support packs for parents to take home and use with their children. Parents appreciate the ongoing assistance and good levels of communication regarding their children's progress. Staff support them to use strategies to enable a consistent approach to their child's development.

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: review the current arrangements for some children's lunchtimes to ensure they are not waiting for extended periods of time and do not become unsettled.