Wishing Well Day Care Coventry

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The provision is good

The provider has made the necessary improvements in the setting since the last inspection. All staff have completed background checks, and training has been received to ensure that they meet paediatric first aid requirements. Staff have received support to improve the effectiveness of their teaching, and the arrangements for children's learning ensure that children make continual progress.

On arrival, children receive a warm welcome from the staff. Staff are nurturing and gentle, helping children feel safe and secure in their care. Children are keen to come inside and engage in play with their peers.

For example, they ...happily sit together to look at books, giggling and pointing to the pictures. Others sit comfortably in the staff's laps while they listen to stories and turn the pages when it is time.Children behave well because staff help them understand the behaviour that is expected of them.

Staff use gentle guidance and explanation so that children know how to be kind to their friends, take turns and use their good manners. In general, children gain the skills and understanding they need to prepare them for the next stages of their learning.

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

Managers have implemented a curriculum that has clear intentions for what they want children to achieve in the setting.

Staff gather information from parents when children first start, which helps them to settle children in. However, they do not yet gather enough information about children's prior learning to help them to decide what they need to be taught next from the outset.Staff make regular observations during activities and while children play.

This informs their regular assessments of children's learning. That said, staff's plans for children's next learning are broad and do not yet focus sharply enough on what each child is ready to learn so that they make the most progress they are capable of.Staff promote communication and language well.

They use clear speech and repetition of new words to help build on children's vocabulary and understanding. Children are eager to talk with staff about what they are making. They select from a vast range of real-life resources and use these to represent items in play.

For example, children select cars and a pearl necklace to mix in a bowl and say, 'I'm making a cake.' They listen to the sounds the items make on the metal bowl as they stir them.Children develop increasing independence.

They learn to complete tasks for themselves, such as managing their personal care when they are capable and dressing themselves. Children understand routines well and readily wash their hands before eating and after using the toilet. They say this washes off the germs.

This contributes towards children's understanding of living a healthy lifestyle.The play environment is arranged and amended to present children with abundant opportunities to explore and learn about resources they may not have had experience with. They fully immerse themselves in play for extended periods, opening draws and lifting the lids of boxes to discover glitter paper, jewelled lids on bottles and a range of sunglasses and other accessories to try on.

This helps children to develop new interests, focus their attention and engage their exploratory impulses.Staff encourage children to play together. They use the opportunity to help children to take turns and to discuss what they are playing.

For example, they work on building a train track together. While staff support with how the pieces fit together, children say, 'We are going to the shops,' and agree where their next pieces should fit.Staff receive the support, guidance and training they need, which has helped them to improve the quality of the learning provision for children and their interactions.

Managers regularly monitor staff practice and ensure that the support and guidance given is tailored to their needs. They are committed to continuing to embed the improvements.Parents are happy with the nursery.

They say their children are happy and enjoy attending. Parents comment on how supportive the staff are. They say they receive regular updates about their children's care and learning progress.

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: make effective use of the time spent with parents when children first start to gather information about their child's prior learning that informs the plans for their next learning from the outset nuse information gained from assessment to focus the plans more sharply for children's next learning so that they receive the support to make the most progress they are capable of.