Big Discoveries Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff form secure partnerships with all professionals involved in children's care.

Staff seek advice about how to meet children's health and development needs. They implement strategies to help children cope with challenges. All children, including those with special educational needs, make good progress from their own starting points.

• Staff are friendly and kind. They make a special effort to greet children when they arrive at the setting. Children of all ages form secure attachments to their key person and they settle very quickly into play.

• The baby area is very well organised and staff encourage young babies to lead their own pla...y. Staff support babies to use interactive toys and to point out their favourite books. Babies are vocal and they giggle with delight as they point out familiar objects.

• Staff forge strong links with parents and they share a range of information. Staff talk to parents about children's experiences during the day. In turn, parents approach staff to discuss children's achievements at home, for example when children ride their bike without support.

Staff use the information to help plan how they will meet children's next steps. • The management team has not fully established systems to monitor the quality of teaching. Members of the new staff team do not make the most of every interaction they have with children to extend their learning.

• Occasionally, group activities do not meet the needs of all children. Staff expect young children to sit for a prolonged period of time. Some children lose concentration.