Happy Days Nursery Ltd

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager monitors the quality of teaching carefully and provides staff with effective support, to help them to develop further their already good teaching skills.

Recent training helped staff to identify further opportunities to help children to gain an awareness of healthy lifestyles. • Staff know children's individual needs well and plan successfully for their learning. They skilfully help children to achieve the next steps in their development.

They provide children with a wide range of exciting learning experiences that motivate them to play, explore and make new discoveries. • All children make good progress, including those with special ...educational needs and/or disabilities. Children gain a wide range of useful skills that prepare them well for their future learning and school.

• Staff plan a good range of activities that helps children to progress well in their physical development. Children enjoy high energy movement sessions and vigorously swing streamers above their heads. They concentrate as they use their hands to shape dough and use various tools to fill containers with sand.

• Staff provide children with many opportunities to develop their independence and to gain useful life skills. Children eagerly help to prepare snacks and meals and learn how to use tools safely to chop fruit and vegetables. They make their own pizzas and select healthy toppings.

• Staff work closely with parents when children first start to establish their starting points. However, staff do not establish fully successful links with all settings that children have previously attended to support continuity in children's care and learning. • Staff do not make the best use of some opportunities to challenge children's thinking and reasoning skills fully.