Stepping Stones Day Nursery (Bolton Ltd)

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The leadership team and staff provide children with a varied range of interesting and challenging activities. Children are motivated and engaged in their learning. They choose what they want to play with and are encouraged to explore and use their own ideas to extend their learning.

All children make good progress from their initial starting points. • Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and those who speak English as an additional language are supported effectively. Staff utilise visual clues well to aid children's emerging communication skills and understanding.

• Children are respected and valued in this welcoming... environment and demonstrate high levels of self-esteem. They develop very good relationships with their key person and show that they feel emotionally secure and confident. Staff are good role models and consistently reinforce rules and boundaries to help children understand what is expected of them.

Children's behaviour is good. • Staff have fostered good partnerships with parents, who are very complimentary about the nursery. Staff are effective in their communication with parents and involve them in children's learning regularly.

For example, staff celebrate children's achievements through the use of daily diaries, discussions, newsletters and shared assessments. • Staff do not always make the most of their current tracking systems to support children to make even better progress. • The recently revised planning procedures for children's learning and development are not yet embedded.