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Bright Sparks Child Care
Smawthorne Lane, WF10 4EW
Type of Institution
Nursery
Age group
- years old
Number of places
Not yet updated
Number of staff
Not yet updated
Ofsted Rating
Outstanding
Summary
- The provision is outstanding Children are happy, highly motivated and incredibly independent.
- They feel safe and thrive on the high expectations of staff.
- Children play games together.
- They take turns to draw pictures in secret and other children skilful y ask questions to discover what has been drawn.
- Children's behaviour is exemplary.
- They learn to be assertive and display a strong sense of fairness.
- Children are kind and remind each other when it is their turn.
- The nursery is at the heart of the community it serves.
- Children work with staff to learn how to care for the local community garden.
- They take an active part, for example, by taking donations to the local food bank and the baby resources bank.
- Staff provide an extremely inclusive environment.
- Children develop empathy and value differences in people.
- Babies walk confidently and set themselves a challenge to climb on the step so that they can learn to wash their hands.
- Children show resilience as they persist in learning how to use bats and bal s, and practise yoga positions until they succeed.
- During the COVID-19 pandemic, the dedicated managers and staff went out of their way to provide social y distanced home visits to support all families, particularly those most in need.
- They provided essential food parcels for families and activity boxes for children to help support their learning at home.
- What does the early years setting do well and what does it need to do better?n Managers are ambitious for all children.
- They successfully target additionalfunding for eligible children to help to make the biggest impact on their learning.
- Children benefit greatly from the additional hours they receive in nursery and the consistently high levels of staff interaction.
- Staff continually challenge children to extend their knowledge and help them develop new skil s.n Staff place the highest importance on developing children's language skil s.
- Forexample, they repeat and build on children's existing language to support and extend their speaking skil s.
- Babies and toddlers delight in singing songs as the music bag goes round.
- They confidently name the items, such as 'bal ', 'cow' and 'elephant'.
- Older children use an extensive vocabulary and speak articulately using wel -constructed sentences.n Children develop an excel ent understanding of and respect for the localcommunity and the wider world.
- For instance, they visit the river and the local nature reserve to learn about the boats, animals and nature.
- Staff make effective links with settings in the United States of America.
- Children learn about the lives of children who live in Nevada and send gifts to them that reflect the traditions of their local area.
- Staff use technology incredibly wel to widen children's knowledge of the world.
- This is il ustrated when children learn about
Extract from latest Ofsted Report.
Overview
Manager
Not yet updated
Owner
Bright Sparks Child Care Partnership
Provider type
Childcare on non-domestic premises
Provider subtype
Full day care
Local authority
wakefield
Parliamentary Constituency
Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
Education Stages
Year Founded
12/3/2019
Education Provision
Education Stages
Nursery / Early Years
0 - 3 year olds
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Breakdown of Ofsted Rating: 02/3/2022
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