1st Class Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager is ambitious. She is knowledgeable about the early years foundation stage. The manager monitors the progress that individual children and groups of learners make.

She uses the information gained from monitoring to help her to make improvements that support children's outcomes positively. For example, she has enhanced the provision to better support children's mathematical skills. • All children are developing the necessary skills required to support them in the next stages of their learning.

• Staff effectively teach children about the local community. They take children on visits to the schools they will attend and children enjoy pla...y in the local woods. Staff arrange for the local fire service to visit.

Children learn about fire engines and the role of a firefighter. • The nursery has received a national award in recognition of staff commitment to keeping children safe. They carry out daily checks of the environment to ensure it is suitable.

Older children demonstrate some appropriate safety measures without direct reminders because they have learned the rules to keep safe. For example, they stay in the designated area when they use ride-on toys. • The special educational needs coordinator works closely with other professionals to help to meet children's individual learning needs.

Additional government funding is used well to provide children with tailored support and one-to-one teaching when appropriate. • Staff sensitively help children to value their similarities and differences. For example, as children look at pictures they consider how faces are the same in some ways but also different.

Staff explain that they are all beautiful in different ways. • The monitoring of staff practice is not yet focused sharply enough on raising the quality of individual staff teaching to the highest level. • Staff do not make full use of their existing partnerships with parents to support them to extend their children's learning at home.