Billingham Children’s Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff provide a wide range of interesting, stimulating activities that reflect children's stage of development and their interests.

Ongoing training helps staff to introduce even more exciting experiences that help children to make good progress in their learning. • Support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities is strong. Highly effective partnerships between staff, parents and external professionals help to meet children's individual needs.

• Children are supported well emotionally when the time comes for them to leave nursery and move on to school. Arrangements, such as new teachers visiting children in nursery, help c...hildren with this transition. • Children's progress is monitored well by the manager.

This helps to identify areas where children may require additional support to narrow possible gaps in their learning. Good use of funding, including the early years pupil premium, supports this further. • Children behave very well throughout the nursery.

Staff are highly skilled in helping children to learn that some things are theirs, some things are shared and some things belong to other people. • Current arrangements for monitoring the quality of teaching are not fully effective in raising practice to an even higher level. • Occasionally, staff do not promptly share key information with parents when children move rooms within the nursery in order to fully support children's emotional needs.