Al Hikmah Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is outstanding • Outstanding and inspirational leadership motivates and drives the excellent staff team. Staff carry out their roles and responsibilities with passion, dedication and commitment.

Staff express how supported they feel in their professional development, which is highly personalised according to their needs, strengths and interests. • Partnerships with parents are superb. They say: 'The partnership and communication between us is excellent.

We receive regular updates about our child's progress verbally and they share ideas of what to do at home.' • Teaching is outstanding across the setting. All staff have a thorough knowledge of children's le...arning needs.

Activities are exciting for children, and staff are highly skilled at tailoring their teaching to reflect children's individual stage of learning and their emerging interests. • Children continuously show enormously high levels of engagement, curiosity and concentration. They are supported by extremely skilled staff to build on their own ideas during play.

Staff ask pertinent and thought-provoking questions. They constantly encourage children to solve problems and think critically. • Children's behaviour is outstanding and staff manage behaviour extremely well.

Children are polite, confident and understand the importance of sharing resources and taking turns. Older children take responsibility for their actions. They discuss with each other how they feel and talk about what makes them happy.