Bell Day Pre-school

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is outstanding • Experienced and well-qualified staff offer excellent opportunities that support children's learning. Furthermore, they provide new and less experienced staff with an excellent model on which to build their teaching skills.

• Children thrive in the nursery. They continually explore new ideas, ask questions and lead their learning. Children ask staff and other children about the meaning of any new words that they hear.

This helps them to develop and extend their vocabulary. • There is a wealth of interesting and stimulating resources that staff and children use exceptionally well to support learning. • Staff plan frequent trips in the local ...area.

Children enthusiastically prepare for a long walk to purchase fruit at the market to make into ice lollies for their leavers' party. • Staff use their training superbly. They implement what they learn extremely effectively to support children.

• Staff promote children's communication, listening and concentration skills with excellent effect. The story they make up together is interesting, imaginative and funny. Children show that they are highly imaginative and easily able to recall useful information to add to the story.

• Parents have nothing but praise for the staff and the huge variety of what they describe as 'enriching experiences'. • Senior staff use reflection to help them identify aspects of practice that can be enhanced. They successfully involve staff, parents and children, so that everyone has a voice in how the nursery develops and improves.

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