Sunlands Kindergarten

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • Staff get to know children's individual personalities well.

Children are settled and happy. They develop strong, positive relationships with the staff and each other. • Staff provide interesting resources and activities throughout the environment, which motivate children's curiosity, particularly in the outdoor play area.

• The experienced staff analyse observations of each child to develop individual learning plans which all staff share. This helps identify which children require extra support or extension. All children make good progress.

• Staff establish positive relationships with parents and keep them fully involved in their childre...n's learning. For example, they share children's achievements daily and hold regular parents' meetings and workshops. • Staff have a good understanding of their role and responsibility to protect children from harm and safeguard their welfare.

For example, even though the setting has a partial exemption relating to information and communication technology, staff provide parents with informative advice and online links about the safe use of technology for children. It is not yet outstanding because: • Although staff teach children about keeping safe effectively, they miss some opportunities to help younger children develop their understanding of risk and healthy lifestyles. • Although the manager observes staff practice, she does not precisely focus staff professional development and training on consistently raising the quality of teaching further to develop children's learning even more.