Early Learning Years Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager effectively oversees the robust systems for the safe and successful running of the nursery and continually generates improvements for children.

• Staff are sensitive and help children form secure emotional attachments. The well-established key-person system helps children form close relationships and promotes their well-being and independence. • Children make good progress in their physical development.

Staff provide good levels of challenge. For example, they encourage toddlers to balance on small ramps and support babies to pour sand into different-sized pots, using a variety of scoops and spades to support them in their hand-to-eye... coordination skills. • Staff regularly plan, observe and check children's progress and communicate effectively with parents, providing accurate assessments.

This leads to detailed individual planning and enables all children to make consistently good progress from their starting points. • Staff do not provide children with regular opportunities to use their home language during their play, to extend their learning. • At times, staff do not extend opportunities for younger children to build on their interest in exploring concepts such as calculation, quantity and measure in their daily play.