Abinger Common Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager and staff are very successful in supporting the children's emotional development. For example, they praise them and build on their developing self-esteem extremely well.

• Children learn about the world around them effectively. For example, they learn about life cycles and how a caterpillar makes a cocoon and turns into a butterfly. • The manager and staff monitor and track children's development well.

They identify any gaps in learning and work with parents and other professionals to implement an improvement plan. • The manager and staff are excellent role models and children's behaviour is very good. They provide an extremely warm a...nd nurturing setting where children's views are valued and respected.

• The manager has good partnerships with parents and shares strategies to help with continuity of children's learning. • The manager and staff do not always provide enough opportunities to extend children's understanding of information technology and to help them learn how some things work for a purpose. • The manager has not yet fully developed systems to work effectively with other settings children attend, for consistency of learning.