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Grades by area

Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routines

Strong standard
Leaders have embedded a warm and inclusive environment where children feel safe, valued and able to thrive. Staff build warm, trusting relationships with children and their families. They use this understanding to adapt routines and approaches so that each child feels supported and included. Key-person arrangements enable staff to support children's evolving needs, which helps children to feel secure and able to learn. Carefully planned and embedded routines meet the needs of all children and provide consistency throughout the day. Leaders and staff work closely with parents to encourage regular attendance and take decisive action to tackle any barriers to learning, ensuring children benefit from the wide range of opportunities available. Leaders carefully monitor children's attendance and have robust procedures to follow up on absences. Staff are positive role models for behaviour. As a result, children follow these examples by showing kindness, excellent manners and collaborative turn taking with each other. They demonstrate consistent, highly positive attitudes to learning. To support daily transitions, staff effectively use songs and stories. This enables children's best possible behaviour. For example, children eagerly respond and join in to help when it is time to tidy up. Children are increasingly able to manage their emotions, and staff are attentive to ensure that children are supported consistently. As a result of well-embedded routines and high expectations, children demonstrate that they feel emotionally secure, interact pleasantly with others and are confident to approach learning.

Children's welfare and wellbeing

Strong standard
Leaders promote a warm, welcoming and inclusive approach by working collaboratively and effectively in partnership with families. This ensures leaders and staff recognise and have a comprehensive understanding of the changing needs of all children who attend the setting and consistently prioritise children's welfare and wellbeing. The setting places great value on developing independent skills, as children are encouraged to regularly wash their hands and feed themselves. They pour their own drinks, when this is age- and stage appropriate. Children enjoy attending the setting, and staff work effectively to help children settle quickly. They build genuine, strong attachments to ensure children feel emotionally safe and secure. As a result, this helps enable all children to develop positive relationships with their peers and engage positively in their learning, which is demonstrated through their interactions and behaviour. Staff create different opportunities to teach children about the importance of adopting healthy lifestyles. They weave in information through children's experiences and conversations. For example, children routinely take it in turns to carefully prepare fruit for snack and mealtimes, developing their knowledge about the importance of eating fruit and vegetables. As a result, children consistently make their own healthy choices. Staff follow government guidance on safe eating practices during snack and mealtimes. This helps to ensure children's safety, and staff are highly responsive to any change in children's needs. Staff carefully plan and adapt experiences to include all children. For example, they use sensory activities to aid exploration for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. All children have daily opportunities to develop their physical skills and spend time outdoors to support their emotional wellbeing.

Inclusion

Strong standard
Staff identify any emerging needs swiftly and put in place suitable adaptations to the environment or daily routines. This helps make a sustained positive difference to children's opportunities and experiences. Leaders and staff work well in close collaboration with external professionals, such as paediatric nurses and speech and language therapists. This ensures that evidence-based approaches and interventions are timely and impactful and support children in the best possible way. The setting ensures that all children are able to access the curriculum and thrive, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities. Leaders and staff know the individual needs of children, and their next steps in learning, very well, skilfully adjusting adaptations when needed. Progress is rigorously monitored to ensure that all children progress to their next stage of learning. Leaders strive to ensure that staff have a secure understanding of how to support children's needs consistently, such as how to use specialist equipment to support physical needs, or visual aids to support individual communication needs. Leaders have a solid understanding of the importance of additional funding and how this should be allocated, based on the individual needs of children, for example purchasing additional equipment or resources tailored to children's interests. Staff share key information about children's progress, offering guidance and support if required. Parents and carers speak very highly of these positive relationships, noting that their children are happy and safe, feel included and receive highly attentive care.

Achievement

Expected standard
Children show through their behaviour and body language that they feel valued and included. Some children enjoy the outdoor water tray activity, while others play collaboratively with putty and measure their hands. Children generally achieve well from their individual starting points and are suitably prepared for their next stage of learning as a result of attending the setting. This includes those children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. Children develop in confidence and demonstrate positive engagement and attention skills during imaginative kitchen play with others. They acquire age- and stage-appropriate communication skills, as well as a love of stories and songs. For example, children eagerly join in with a song before mealtime, taking turns, participating in actions and interacting pleasantly with each other. Children develop confidence in early mathematical concepts such as shape, space and size during everyday routines and activities.

Curriculum and teaching

Expected standard
Leaders have a solid overall understanding of the quality of the curriculum. They are developing an action plan to bring about further improvement to ensure it is of consistently high quality because it is not yet securely focused on developing breadth in children's knowledge and skills. Children access an inclusive curriculum which is typically taught well. Staff understand the steps in children's learning to help build their physical skills and emotional development so that they generally achieve well. This includes inclusive teaching approaches, where staff adapt their teaching to meet children's individual starting points and stages of development, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities. Staff plan suitable and engaging activities based on children's interests and introduce new words to help strengthen children's understanding of early mathematical concepts and language at any opportunity. For example, some children explore putty while staff weave in appropriate mathematical language to help embed early mathematical concepts such as size and number. Children use a range of tools and toys that help them gain increasing muscle control. Children are typically well engaged in their learning. They demonstrate a love of books, enjoying stories that reflect their interests. Staff introduce new words to describe different textures as children play in different sand and water activities. This helps to support children's communication and language skills.

Leadership and governance

Expected standard
Leaders are reflective and know what they need to do to improve. The actions identified to further broaden the curriculum are not yet embedded. This means that sustained improvement in developing consistently high-quality provision for all children remains a work in progress. Staff say they feel valued and motivated in their roles. Leaders monitor staff workload and wellbeing through regular support and supervision. However, the arrangements for supervision do not yet fully support staff to achieve consistently high-quality teaching. Leaders value staff, who support the ethos of the setting. This is reflected in the individual attitudes and behaviour of staff. Those responsible for leadership and governance place children's best interests at the heart of decisions, to help ensure that children are safe and supported. Although there are currently no children in receipt of additional funding on roll, leaders have a clear understanding of how such funding could be used to support children's individual needs. Staff undertake mandatory training to support their professional learning, such as paediatric first-aid courses, which help them carry out their roles well. Parents speak highly of the setting, commenting on the individualised approach and progress their child has made as a result of attending. Parents value the strong relationships between staff, children and families, as well as the clear and open communication. This helps ensure that all children's needs, routines and medical requirements are understood and supported.

What it's like to be a child at this setting

Children are warmly welcomed by staff and arrive eagerly at the setting. The environment is clean, safe and stimulating. As a result, children typically settle well and happily interact with staff and their peers. Children show through their body language that they have secure attachments with their key person, which contributes to their sense of belonging, as well as helping children to settle and feel safe. Staff relationships with parents and carers are positive. Staff support and communicate the celebration of children's progress through a secure app. Staff know children well and plan suitable activities based on their interests. For example, during a role-play activity, children talk to staff and other children about what food they like to serve and how to wash up. This extends vocabulary and builds confidence. Children generally achieve well due to the wide range of opportunities provided through the curriculum. They have access to outdoor play, and staff use the large outdoor space to help children learn about the world around them. Children are supported well to develop their communication, language and numeracy skills, which helps prepare them for their next stage of learning or school. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those who experience other barriers to their learning are very well supported by staff. Staff accurately assess children's needs and progress, helping them identify any gaps in learning. Staff consistently seek swift, additional support from external professionals when required and implement this to help meet children's individual needs, such as physical or speech-related needs. As a result, all children make steady progress over time from their individual starting points.

Next steps

Leaders should use staff supervisions more effectively, so they can provide staff with precisely matched learning opportunities linked to priorities for improvement. Leaders should continue to develop the curriculum further so that it is of consistently high quality, to ensure breadth and depth of knowledge in children's skills.

About this inspection

The inspector spoke with leaders, practitioners, children, the special educational needs coordinator and parents during the inspection. We carried out this inspection under sections 49 and 50 of the Childcare Act 2006 on the quality and standards of provision that is registered on the Early Years Register. The registered person must ensure that this provision complies with the statutory framework for children's learning, development and care, known as the early years foundation stage.

About this setting

URN
EY482491
Address
Oaktree Farm Wisbech Road Wisbech PE14 7HW
Type
Childcare on Non-Domestic Premises, Full day care
Registration date
17/10/2014
Registered person
Krazy Dayz Nursery Limited
Register(s)
EYR, CCR, VCR
Operating hours
Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday : 07:30 - 18:00
Local authority
Norfolk

Facts and figures

Age range at inspection
1 to 4
Total places
64

Data from 16 September 2026

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Krazy Dayz Nursery Ltd Oak Tree Farm
Unique reference number (URN): EY482491
Address: Oaktree Farm, Wisbech Road, Wisbech, PE14 7HW
Type: Childcare on non-domestic premises
Registered with Ofsted: 17/10/2014
Registers: EYR, CCR, VCR
Registered person: Krazy Dayz Nursery Limited
Inspection report: 16 September 2026
Exceptional
Strong standard
Expected standard
Needs attention
Urgent improvement
Safeguarding standards met
The safeguarding standards are met. This means that leaders and/or those responsible for
governance and oversight fulfil their specific responsibilities and have established an open
culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively
identified, acted upon and managed. As a result, children are made safer and feel safe.
How we evaluate safeguarding
When we inspect settings for safeguarding, they can have the following outcomes:
Met: The setting has an open and positive culture of safeguarding.
Not met: The setting has not created an open and positive culture of safeguarding. Not all
legal requirements are met.

Strong standard
Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routines Strong standard
Leaders have embedded a warm and inclusive environment where children feel safe, valued
and able to thrive. Staff build warm, trusting relationships with children and their families.
They use this understanding to adapt routines and approaches so that each child feels
supported and included. Key-person arrangements enable staff to support children's
evolving needs, which helps children to feel secure and able to learn. Carefully planned and
embedded routines meet the needs of all children and provide consistency throughout the
day.
Leaders and staff work closely with parents to encourage regular attendance and take
decisive action to tackle any barriers to learning, ensuring children benefit from the wide
range of opportunities available. Leaders carefully monitor children's attendance and have
robust procedures to follow up on absences.
Staff are positive role models for behaviour. As a result, children follow these examples by
showing kindness, excellent manners and collaborative turn taking with each other. They
demonstrate consistent, highly positive attitudes to learning. To support daily transitions,
staff effectively use songs and stories. This enables children's best possible behaviour. For
example, children eagerly respond and join in to help when it is time to tidy up. Children are
increasingly able to manage their emotions, and staff are attentive to ensure that children
are supported consistently.
As a result of well-embedded routines and high expectations, children demonstrate that they
feel emotionally secure, interact pleasantly with others and are confident to approach
learning.
Children's welfare and wellbeing Strong standard
Leaders promote a warm, welcoming and inclusive approach by working collaboratively and
effectively in partnership with families. This ensures leaders and staff recognise and have a
comprehensive understanding of the changing needs of all children who attend the setting
and consistently prioritise children's welfare and wellbeing. The setting places great value on
developing independent skills, as children are encouraged to regularly wash their hands and
feed themselves. They pour their own drinks, when this is age- and stage appropriate.
Children enjoy attending the setting, and staff work effectively to help children settle quickly.
They build genuine, strong attachments to ensure children feel emotionally safe and secure.
As a result, this helps enable all children to develop positive relationships with their peers
and engage positively in their learning, which is demonstrated through their interactions and
behaviour.
Staff create different opportunities to teach children about the importance of adopting
healthy lifestyles. They weave in information through children's experiences and
conversations. For example, children routinely take it in turns to carefully prepare fruit for
snack and mealtimes, developing their knowledge about the importance of eating fruit and

Expected standard
vegetables. As a result, children consistently make their own healthy choices. Staff follow
government guidance on safe eating practices during snack and mealtimes. This helps to
ensure children's safety, and staff are highly responsive to any change in children's needs.
Staff carefully plan and adapt experiences to include all children. For example, they use
sensory activities to aid exploration for children with special educational needs and/or
disabilities. All children have daily opportunities to develop their physical skills and spend
time outdoors to support their emotional wellbeing.
Inclusion Strong standard
Staff identify any emerging needs swiftly and put in place suitable adaptations to the
environment or daily routines. This helps make a sustained positive difference to children's
opportunities and experiences. Leaders and staff work well in close collaboration with
external professionals, such as paediatric nurses and speech and language therapists. This
ensures that evidence-based approaches and interventions are timely and impactful and
support children in the best possible way.
The setting ensures that all children are able to access the curriculum and thrive, including
those with special educational needs and/or disabilities. Leaders and staff know the
individual needs of children, and their next steps in learning, very well, skilfully adjusting
adaptations when needed. Progress is rigorously monitored to ensure that all children
progress to their next stage of learning. Leaders strive to ensure that staff have a secure
understanding of how to support children's needs consistently, such as how to use specialist
equipment to support physical needs, or visual aids to support individual communication
needs.
Leaders have a solid understanding of the importance of additional funding and how this
should be allocated, based on the individual needs of children, for example purchasing
additional equipment or resources tailored to children's interests.
Staff share key information about children's progress, offering guidance and support if
required. Parents and carers speak very highly of these positive relationships, noting that
their children are happy and safe, feel included and receive highly attentive care.
Achievement Expected standard
Children show through their behaviour and body language that they feel valued and
included. Some children enjoy the outdoor water tray activity, while others play
collaboratively with putty and measure their hands. Children generally achieve well from
their individual starting points and are suitably prepared for their next stage of learning as a
result of attending the setting. This includes those children with special educational needs
and/or disabilities.

Children develop in confidence and demonstrate positive engagement and attention skills
during imaginative kitchen play with others. They acquire age- and stage-appropriate
communication skills, as well as a love of stories and songs. For example, children eagerly
join in with a song before mealtime, taking turns, participating in actions and interacting
pleasantly with each other. Children develop confidence in early mathematical concepts
such as shape, space and size during everyday routines and activities.
Curriculum and teaching Expected standard
Leaders have a solid overall understanding of the quality of the curriculum. They are
developing an action plan to bring about further improvement to ensure it is of consistently
high quality because it is not yet securely focused on developing breadth in children's
knowledge and skills.
Children access an inclusive curriculum which is typically taught well. Staff understand the
steps in children's learning to help build their physical skills and emotional development so
that they generally achieve well. This includes inclusive teaching approaches, where staff
adapt their teaching to meet children's individual starting points and stages of development,
including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
Staff plan suitable and engaging activities based on children's interests and introduce new
words to help strengthen children's understanding of early mathematical concepts and
language at any opportunity. For example, some children explore putty while staff weave in
appropriate mathematical language to help embed early mathematical concepts such as
size and number. Children use a range of tools and toys that help them gain increasing
muscle control. Children are typically well engaged in their learning. They demonstrate a
love of books, enjoying stories that reflect their interests. Staff introduce new words to
describe different textures as children play in different sand and water activities. This helps
to support children's communication and language skills.
Leadership and governance Expected standard
Leaders are reflective and know what they need to do to improve. The actions identified to
further broaden the curriculum are not yet embedded. This means that sustained
improvement in developing consistently high-quality provision for all children remains a work
in progress. Staff say they feel valued and motivated in their roles. Leaders monitor staff
workload and wellbeing through regular support and supervision. However, the
arrangements for supervision do not yet fully support staff to achieve consistently high-
quality teaching.
Leaders value staff, who support the ethos of the setting. This is reflected in the individual
attitudes and behaviour of staff. Those responsible for leadership and governance place
children's best interests at the heart of decisions, to help ensure that children are safe and
supported. Although there are currently no children in receipt of additional funding on roll,
leaders have a clear understanding of how such funding could be used to support children's
individual needs. Staff undertake mandatory training to support their professional learning,
such as paediatric first-aid courses, which help them carry out their roles well.

Parents speak highly of the setting, commenting on the individualised approach and
progress their child has made as a result of attending. Parents value the strong relationships
between staff, children and families, as well as the clear and open communication. This
helps ensure that all children's needs, routines and medical requirements are understood
and supported.
Compulsory Childcare Register requirements
This setting has met the requirements of the compulsory part of the Childcare Register.
How we check if a provider meets the requirements of the Compulsory Childcare
Register
When we check if settings meet the Compulsory Childcare Register requirements, they can
have the following outcomes:
Met
Not met
Voluntary Childcare Register requirements
This setting has met the requirements of the voluntary part of Childcare Register.
How we check if a provider meets the requirements of the Voluntary Childcare
Register
When we check if settings meet the Voluntary Childcare Register requirements, they can
have the following outcomes:
Met
Not met

Inspector:
What it's like to be a child at this setting
Children are warmly welcomed by staff and arrive eagerly at the setting. The environment is
clean, safe and stimulating. As a result, children typically settle well and happily interact with
staff and their peers. Children show through their body language that they have secure
attachments with their key person, which contributes to their sense of belonging, as well as
helping children to settle and feel safe. Staff relationships with parents and carers are
positive. Staff support and communicate the celebration of children's progress through a
secure app. Staff know children well and plan suitable activities based on their interests. For
example, during a role-play activity, children talk to staff and other children about what food
they like to serve and how to wash up. This extends vocabulary and builds confidence.
Children generally achieve well due to the wide range of opportunities provided through the
curriculum. They have access to outdoor play, and staff use the large outdoor space to help
children learn about the world around them. Children are supported well to develop their
communication, language and numeracy skills, which helps prepare them for their next
stage of learning or school. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities and
those who experience other barriers to their learning are very well supported by staff. Staff
accurately assess children's needs and progress, helping them identify any gaps in learning.
Staff consistently seek swift, additional support from external professionals when required
and implement this to help meet children's individual needs, such as physical or speech-
related needs. As a result, all children make steady progress over time from their individual
starting points.
Next steps
Leaders should use staff supervisions more effectively, so they can provide staff with
precisely matched learning opportunities linked to priorities for improvement.
Leaders should continue to develop the curriculum further so that it is of consistently high
quality, to ensure breadth and depth of knowledge in children's skills.
About this inspection
The inspector spoke with leaders, practitioners, children, the special educational needs
coordinator and parents during the inspection.
We carried out this inspection under sections 49 and 50 of the Childcare Act 2006 on the
quality and standards of provision that is registered on the Early Years Register. The
registered person must ensure that this provision complies with the statutory framework for
children's learning, development and care, known as the early years foundation stage.

John Stafford
About this setting
Unique reference number (URN): EY482491
Address:
Oaktree Farm
Wisbech Road
Wisbech
PE14 7HW
Type: Childcare on non-domestic premises
Registration date: 17/10/2014
Registered person: Krazy Dayz Nursery Limited
Register(s): EYR, CCR, VCR
Operating hours: Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday : 07:30 - 18:00
Local authority: Norfolk
Facts and figures used on inspection
This data was available to the inspector at the time of the inspection.
This data is from 16 September 2026
Children numbers
Age range of children at the time of inspection
1 to 4
Total number of places
64

Our grades explained
Exceptional
Practice is exceptional: of the highest standard nationally. Other settings can learn from it.
Strong standard
The setting reaches a strong standard. Leaders are working above the standard expected of
them.
Expected standard
The setting is fulfilling the expected standard of education and/or care. This means they are
following the standard set out in statutory and non ‑ statutory legislation and the professional
standards expected of them.
Needs attention
The expected standards are not met but leaders are likely able to make the necessary
improvements.
Urgent improvement
The setting needs to make urgent improvements to provide the expected standard of
education and/or care.

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