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Stepping Stones Day Nursery
16 Waingate, Linthwaite, HD7 5NR
Type of Institution
Nursery
Age group
- years old
Number of places
38 places
Number of staff
Not yet updated
Ofsted Rating
Requires Improvement
Summary
- The provision requires improvement Children delight in the warm and welcoming greeting they receive from staff as parents drop them off at the nursery entrance.
- They enter happily and with confidence.
- Toddlers under two years find their coat pegs, with support from the nurturing baby room staff.
- Children's coat pegs are label ed with their photograph, which helps them to develop a sense of belonging and early self-identity.
- Children settle quickly and staff comfort and distract those who are a little upset on their arrival.
- Children have strong emotional attachments to staff, which helps them to feel secure and safe.
- However, staff's assessment of risk and knowledge of certain aspects of safeguarding children is not good enough.
- Children, particularly older children, understand and follow nursery rules.
- They are very sociable and play collaboratively, for instance, with dough and small-world sea-life resources.
- Overal , children enjoy their time at the nursery.
- They readily access varied resources and activities that help them to develop early independence and certain skil s for future learning.
- However, children do not make optimum progress and are not always challenged, focussed and engaged, due to weaknesses in the curriculum and teaching.
- This includes children in receipt of additional funding.
- What does the early years setting do well and what does it need to do better?n Supervision arrangements for the relatively new manager and staff are not goodenough.
- The manager does not receive enough support, coaching and mentoring from the provider, to enable her to effectively monitor and improve staff's knowledge and performance.
- Consequently, the quality of the curriculum indoors and outdoors, children's learning, and staff's teaching are not yet consistently good.n Staff continually assess children's progress to support their future learning.
- However, they do not always effectively plan activities and the environment.
- They do not always focus on what they want children to learn and children's most relevant interests and next steps in learning, particularly where children are under three years.n Staff promptly identify children with a developmental delay in order to secureearly intervention and support.
- As part of this, they make timely referrals to other professionals.n Staff work in partnership with parents to meet children's needs.
- There is regularinformation-sharing.
- For example, staff speak with parents at the entrance and provide daily care routine slips.
- Parents access online learning journals and staff share learning plans.
- Parents express very complimentary feedback.n Staff gather important information to support new children's emotional wel -
Extract from latest Ofsted Report.
Overview
Manager
Not yet updated
Owner
Little Acorns Day Nursery (Huddersfield) Limited
Provider type
Childcare on non-domestic premises
Provider subtype
Full day care
Local authority
Kirklees
Parliamentary Constituency
Colne Valley
Education Stages
Year Founded
22/8/2018
Education Provision
Education Stages
Nursery / Early Years
0 - 3 year olds
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