Russell Street Private Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • Partnerships with parents are superb and enormously valued. Leaders and managers have developed a warm, welcoming and highly caring environment where parents can take part in all aspects of nursery life. Children flourish as parents are included in their learning at events, such as the gardening club and craft days.

• Leaders and managers are passionate about promoting diversity and equality, encouraging all children to aim high. Practitioners provide children with a wide range of experiences and opportunities to understand families and communities beyond their own. • The teaching of children who have English as an additional language is consistently stron...g because practitioners recognise children's individual needs and abilities.

Children have opportunities to sing nursery rhymes in more than one language with the help of skilled practitioners. • Children are well prepared for the next steps in their learning, including starting school. They are interested and motivated to find out about the world around them.

• The key-person system is effective. Children are emotionally secure and they thrive as practitioners promote confidence and independence by following their interests. It is not yet outstanding because: • Monitoring and supervision of staff, and structures of the day, do not always identify where improvements could be made.

As a result, some routines involve too much waiting time for children and miss chances for children to be engaged in meaningful play. • Staff do not always take children's learning forward as much as possible during child-led activities. On the odd occasion, their questioning skills are not always tuned into children's emerging interests to help maximise their learning.