The Cheshire Day Nursery @ Thelwall

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Practitioners encourage children to play and explore purposefully in the well-equipped indoor and outdoor spaces. This helps children to become eager learners.

• Practitioners gather detailed information about children's development and preferences when they first attend the nursery. This helps children to settle in quickly. Parents praise the reassuring, friendly practitioners.

They say they feel well informed about nursery activities and children's development. • Practitioners regularly check children's progress and report on their attainment. This helps practitioners to identify what children are ready to learn next.

• Managers identi...fy and take steps to minimise risks to children's safety. For example, the identity of all visitors is checked before they enter the building. Practitioners know what to do if there is an emergency.

• Practitioners are calm and approachable role models. They praise children and this helps to promote their positive behaviour. Children learn to follow consistent daily routines.

This helps them to develop confidence and independence. • Although managers regularly monitor the performance of practitioners, they do not focus sharply enough on raising the quality of teaching to exceptional levels. • Practitioners sometimes do not plan group activities well enough to challenge every child who participates to the highest level.