Manna House Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Leaders and staff are passionate about the continual development of the nursery. They have a clear vision for the future and are motivated to achieve the best possible outcomes for all children.

• Staff provide a safe environment and supervise children at all times. They use a broad range of policies to guide their practice, along with risk assessments, to help keep children safe. • Staff effectively model good manners, so children know what is expected.

Children learn to follow age-appropriate rules and boundaries. Consequently, behaviour is exemplary. • Staff provide constant praise and encouragement, so children feel good about themselves.
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Children have confidence in their own abilities and a good attitude to learning. • Staff facilitate children's independence and curiosity very well. They have created an interesting and well-organised learning environment, indoors and outdoors.

Children enter the nursery confidently and eagerly begin to engage in their self-chosen play. • The good information gained from the monitoring of children's progress is not used as well as possible to target teaching precisely and accelerate children's learning. • Leaders' systems for overseeing the quality of teaching do not evaluate the impact of staff's practice rigorously enough to raise teaching to a higher level.