Cute Companions Private Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) very well. They provide children with individually tailored support and develop effective partnerships with a wide range of other professionals. This supports a shared and consistent approach for children's learning and development.

• Staff promote children's literacy skills very well. They read stories using good expression, leave time for children to join in and encourage them to predict what might happen next. Children listen attentively and choose to explore books independently.

Boys use the pictures in books to prompt them to talk about what is happening and ret...ell familiar stories. • Children enjoy being outdoors in the very interesting garden. They display high levels of curiosity as they explore natural materials and play with purpose.

Staff use their knowledge of children well to plan purposeful activities that engage them in learning from the moment they start to attend. For example, they ensure that jigsaws and puzzles are readily available to support new children's particular interests. • Staff develop very strong partnerships with parents.

This starts from the moment that children start to attend nursery. Parents speak very highly of the nursery and are pleased with their children's progress. They feel that their children are very safe in the nursery.

Parents describe staff as 'caring, adaptable and supportive'. • Staff do not consistently provide more able children with sufficient challenge to help them develop their knowledge of the world to the highest level. • At times staff miss opportunities to support children's mathematical understanding of weight, speed, distance and measurement.