Mary Poppins Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The provider and manager are ambitious and motivated to strive for continuous improvement.

They work effectively with the well-qualified staff team, who demonstrate a strong commitment to support children's welfare and development. • Staff observe, assess and monitor children's progress effectively. They reflect on children's interests to plan a good range of activities and experiences across all areas of learning.

• The manager has high expectations of what each child can achieve in their learning and development. She has a good overview of children's needs through effective monitoring of staff's assessments of children's development. All childr...en make expected progress, depending on their starting points.

• Relationships between staff and children are positive. Staff engage successfully with parents to find out and share information about what their children know and can do. Staff place a high focus on supporting children as they move on to the next room in the nursery.

• The manager fully understands the importance of working together with her staff and other professionals to help to close gaps in children's development. They share relevant information to promote continuity in children's care and learning and development. • Although the manager helps her staff to develop their teaching skills through regular supervision discussions, some staff are not yet skilled in using the the next steps they identify for children to promote all children's learning really effectively.