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Building Blocks Nursery
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Building Blocks Nursery
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- Birmingham B20 2LB
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| The quality of education | Good |
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Overall effectiveness at previous inspection | Good |
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Diverse Books and Toys: Children enjoy learning about each other's similarities and differences when learning about different festivals and cultural days.
Indoor and Outdoor Facilities: They have access to a range of equipment and activities that help them to build their muscles and move their bodies. However, staff do not consistently ensure that children are provided with a wide range of learning opportunities outdoors.
Activities: Pre-school children enjoy playing a range of educational games offline on the nurseries interactive board. They learn cause and effect, as they use their fingers to navigate the cursor on the screen.
Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children confidently use the touch screen for making marks and develop their mathematical skills, as they complete the puzzles and games.
Communication: Engagement with parents is excellent. Parents are happy with the progress their children make and with the provision.
Community Building: Parents benefit from staff who are bilingual and can communicate in their home languages if needed.
Programs and Resources: All children, including those in receipt of additional funding, and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities make good progress in their development.
Staff Training: Staff strongly promote children's love of books. They choose specific books to focus on each day, which relate to the curriculum and children's present interests.
Welcoming and Professional Staff: Children arrive at this nursery and receive a warm welcome from staff. They separate from their parents with ease and enter confidently.
Safeguarding Training: Staff have a good safeguarding knowledge. They are alert to the signs and symptoms of abuse and know who to refer to if they have concerns about a child's welfare.
Play and Learning Integration: Staff plan and provide interesting play activities that develop babies' curiosity. They create a calm, relaxing space for babies to explore and engage in sensory-play experiences.
Transition to Primary School: The manager and provider have high expectations for all children. Consequently, all children, including those in receipt of additional funding, and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities make good progress in their development.
Diversity Management: Children learn about diversity in positive ways. For instance, children enjoy learning about each other's similarities and differences when learning about different festivals and cultural days.
Child Safety Management: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. Staff supervise young children to carefully walk from their rooms upstairs to the outdoor area downstairs.
Children's Safety and Security: Children feel very safe and secure. Staff speak warmly to the children. They give them 'high fives' and lots of praise throughout the day. Children respond to this praise proudly, with big smiles.
Happiness and Settling: Children are happy and well cared for at this setting.
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Building Blocks Nursery is a Nursery, Nursery located in West Midlands County, West Midlands.
This nursery accepts children from 0.4-4.11 years old.
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Our first nursery, located in Kingstanding, West Midlands, was established in November 2002. Our Handsworth Wood location soon followed in April 2004, and our third facility opened more recently in February 2016. We are based in Birmingham.
Tina Hart and Alex Jones are the two directors of the nursery group.
All employees receive ongoing training in food safety, first aid, safeguarding, and the prevent duty.
As part of our commitment to staff growth and support, we provide a variety of additional training opportunities, such as behaviour management, support for children with special needs, and training tailored to each age group or developmental stage.
The programme, which was created by the nonprofit ICAN, aims to provide a tailored intervention for 3 to 4 year old kids who are experiencing delays in their language development.
Our three early talk boost trainers are incredibly privileged to be able to give this intervention programme to kids who need some linguistic support.
All three settings have access to this, and we have excellent success rates for the program's efficacy.
We are now collaborating on this brand-new project to create linguistic help for our young children.
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Tina Hart and Alex Jones are the two directors of the nursery group.
All employees receive ongoing training in food safety, first aid, safeguarding, and the prevent duty.
As part of our commitment to staff growth and support, we provide a variety of additional training opportunities, such as behaviour management, support for children with special needs, and training tailored to each age group or developmental stage.
The programme, which was created by the nonprofit ICAN, aims to provide a tailored intervention for 3 to 4 year old kids who are experiencing delays in their language development.
Our three early talk boost trainers are incredibly privileged to be able to give this intervention programme to kids who need some linguistic support.
All three settings have access to this, and we have excellent success rates for the program's efficacy.
We are now collaborating on this brand-new project to create linguistic help for our young children.
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Holidays 2023/24
| Holidays | Date |
|---|---|
| Autumn Half Term Holidays | 30th Oct 2023 - 3rd Nov 2023 |
| Winter Holidays | 25th Dec 2023 - 5th Jan 2024 |
| Spring Half Term Holidays | 12th Feb 2024 - 16th Feb 2024 |
| Spring Holidays | 25th Mar 2024 - 5th Apr 2024 |
| Summer Half Term Holidays | 27th May 2024 - 31st May 2024 |
| Summer Holidays | 23rd Jul 2024 - 30th Aug 2024 |
Terms Dates 2023/24
| Terms | Dates |
|---|---|
| Autumn Term | 4th Sep 2023 - 29th Oct 2023 |
| Autumn Term-2 | 4th Nov 2023 - 24th Dec 2023 |
| Spring Term | 6th Jan 2024 - 11th Feb 2024 |
| Spring Term-2 | 17th Feb 2024 - 24th Mar 2024 |
| Summer Term | 6th Apr 2024 - 26th May 2024 |
| Summer Term-2 | 1st Jun 2024 - 22nd Jul 2024 |
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