The Learning Tree Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Children are happy, settled and displayed high levels of involvement in their play and learning.

Staff establish warm and caring relationships with the children. Their calm and attentive approach helps to promote children's social and emotional well-being. • Children develop good language and communication skills.

Staff constantly engage children in meaningful conversation and ask relevant questions to challenge their thinking. Staff use one-to-one and small-group times to develop children's vocabulary and promote their speaking and listening skills. Children enjoy learning new songs and sharing familiar stories.

• Children behave well. ...They learn to share, take turns and follow instructions. They are beginning to understand and accept the needs and opinions of others.

Children who have special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are supported well. Staff are sensitive in their interactions and offer lots of praise and encouragement to promote children's positive self-esteem. • Staff have established good partnerships with parents.

They regularly share information about their children's progress with them and suggest ideas on how they can further extend learning at home. • Staff do not always obtain sufficient information from parents about their children's prior achievements when they first start so that they can plan for their learning from the outset. • Procedures for tracking the progress of different groups are not yet fully effective to help enhance children's learning experiences and raise outcomes for all children to the highest level.