Todwick Early Years Ltd

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The provision is good

Children thrive at the nursery and all aspects of their development are carefully nurtured by staff. The learning environment is thoughtfully planned to stimulate children's curiosity and imagination and to challenge their learning. Children show high levels of confidence and independence as they move around the nursery and lead their own play.

Staff have very high expectations of what all children, including the youngest, can do for themselves. Children feel safe and secure during their time at the nursery. They are excited to come to the nursery to see their friends and quickly become absorbed in their play.

Children... enjoy simple daily routines and confidently talk to other children and staff. They behave well and staff provide sensitive support for younger children who are learning to manage their behaviour. The manager is ambitious and has a clear vision for the nursery.

Her passion for providing high-quality education is shared by staff. The manager thoroughly evaluates the nursery and has successfully improved how staff plan and support children's learning. She is in the process of embedding incisive evaluations of staff's interactions with children to further improve the quality of teaching.

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

The nursery provides a carefully planned curriculum that successfully challenges children's learning through play. Resources have been meticulously selected and thoughtfully presented to help children build and refine skills over time. Children are enticed to experiment with real-life tools and everyday objects.

For example, they find out how nuts and bolts work, use guttering as car ramps and explore kitchen weighing scales. They become engrossed in this play and quickly develop the strength and coordination they need to be successful.Children's independence is a key focus across all aspects of the nursery and staff help them learn to solve problems.

Older children decide to wash the sand from their spades and staff help them find ways to get the water they need. Staff are on hand to support younger children and build their resilience. Children are determined as they learn how to squeeze out the paint they want and prepare their own fruit at snack time.

Partnerships with parents are very strong. Staff use a wide range of different ways to engage parents in children's learning at nursery. They regularly gather detailed information from parents about what children are doing at home.

Parents are well informed about their child's progress and the variety of activities happening in the nursery. Children are thrilled to take books home to share with their families.Children confidently express their ideas to staff.

Younger children use gestures and their first words to show staff the spider they have found. Older children build complex sentences to describe to staff what toys they are looking for. They give instructions to staff about their games and share ideas with their friends.

Staff make good use of their interactions to add new vocabulary and ideas.Staff and the manager carefully check children's learning to make sure they are making good progress. They have added additional resources and discussed strategies they can use to improve the support they provide for children's mathematical development.

Any concerns about children's development are quickly identified and addressed by staff.The nursery has close links to the local school. Teachers visit children before they start at school to help get to know them.

Parents are very pleased that children develop the skills and knowledge that will help them in their next stage of learning.The manager has worked with staff to successfully reduce the burden of planning for children's learning. They now spend more time with children and respond quickly to children changing needs and ideas.

The manager is now embedding ways of helping staff to become highly reflective practitioners. She has identified the need to build their confidence and raise the quality of teaching to the highest level.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

Staff and leaders have a good understanding of how to keep children safe. They know how to recognise the signs that a child might be at risk of harm. There are clear procedures in place to record any concerns staff have about children's welfare and the manager carefully monitors these.

All leaders understand how to recruit staff safely and make sure they are suitable to work with children. They know how to respond if an allegation is made against a member of staff.

What does the setting need to do to improve?

To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: make better use of incisive evaluations of staff's practice to raise the quality of teaching to the very highest level.

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