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Buttons Explorers
11 Alvin Street, GL1 3EH
Type of Institution
Nursery
Age group
- years old
Number of places
14 places
Number of staff
Not yet updated
Ofsted Rating
Requires Improvement
Summary
- The provision requires improvement Children arrive at nursery happy and settle wel .
- They are greeted by the friendly and caring staff, and choose what they would like to play with.
- Some aspects of the curriculum are promoted wel .
- Children develop an appreciation of diversity.
- They learn about cultures different from their own as they receive a postcard from a different country each month.
- Together, staff and children look at photographs of the country and discuss the language they speak and the traditions they follow.
- However, while the manager is able to demonstrate how the nursery promotes key areas of the curriculum, staff are not confident in their knowledge and skil s.
- As a result, teaching is variable and children do not always benefit from a chal enging and stimulating curriculum to help them make good progress.
- Children are encouraged to adopt healthy practices.
- Staff remind them to wash their hands before mealtimes.
- Children develop appropriate levels of independence.
- For example, they practise spreading butter onto their savoury muffin.
- However, during snack time, children are provided with drinks that are too high in sugar.
- Consequently, children's oral health is not fully supported.
- The nursery remained open during the COVID-19 pandemic for the children of key workers, those requiring extra support, and children in receipt of additional funding.
- Staff introduced outdoor drop-off and collection arrangements to ensure social distancing guidelines could be followed and everyone felt safe.
- What does the early years setting do well and what does it need to do better?n Staff regularly review nursery policies and documentation.
- This helps them tounderstand the procedures to follow when at the nursery.
- However, records for monitoring children's attendance are not always accurate.
- This is because children are not always signed out of the setting at the end of each day.
- For example, attendance registers fail to show children's complete hours of attendance.n Staff make some observations and assessments of children's learning andprogress.
- However, this information is not used effectively.
- Staff do not target their planning precisely enough on what children need to learn next.
- They do not share emerging developmental concerns with other professionals or parents in a timely manner.
- This means that children, including those in receipt of additional funding, do not benefit from the early intervention required for them to make the best possible progress.n Children develop an interest in books and stories.
- They sit together in a smallgroup to listen to the story that they wil perform for the Christmas play.
- Children join in with familiar parts of the story and giggle as staff make funny noises and actions.
- This supports children's early literacy skil s.
Extract from latest Ofsted Report.
Overview
Manager
Not yet updated
Owner
Gardner-Wilce, Terrie Hazel
Provider type
Childcare on non-domestic premises
Provider subtype
Full day care
Local authority
Gloucestershire
Parliamentary Constituency
Gloucester
Education Stages
Year Founded
13/2/2019
Education Provision
Education Stages
Nursery / Early Years
0 - 3 year olds
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