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Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • There is an effective key-person system which successfully promotes children's development and well-being. Caring and nurturing staff listen attentively to children and use what they know about children's interests and routines to ensure they feel safe and secure.

• Staff provide good support to enable children to develop their early writing skills. They offer enjoyable group activities to strengthen hand muscles, promote independent mark-making opportunities throughout the setting and give focused support to help children to link letters to the sounds that they represent. • Partnerships with parents, other providers and professionals are good.

I...nformation about children is shared in a range of ways. This contributes strongly to meeting children's needs and ensuring consistency in their care and learning. Parents are complimentary about the nursery and comment on how much their children enjoy attending.

• Although staff benefit from a range of regular training experiences, staff supervision does not yet focus precisely enough on staff's individual development needs to raise the quality of teaching to the highest level. • Sometimes, the planned next steps in children's learning are too broad. This means staff are not able to plan precisely enough to ensure children make the best possible progress.