Daisy Chains Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff establish secure and trusting relationships with children. This helps them settle quickly, confidently and happily into their play. Children have a good sense of belonging.

• The manager and staff effectively evaluate their practice together. They discuss how well activities motivate children to learn. They have made positive changes from their findings, for example developing children's opportunities to learn outside.

• The manager and staff closely monitor and track children's individual and specific group progress. This enables them to quickly recognise any gaps in children's development and provide good support to help children catch up... in their learning and make good progress. • Children have good opportunities to gain skills to support their future learning.

For example, they are independent to choose their own play experiences with confidence. • There are good opportunities for children to develop their imaginations. For example, they bring their ideas alive as they enjoy dressing up as their favourite superhero.

• Staff support all children to develop good communication skills and they use good questioning techniques and effective visual aids, such as simple signing. • Staff do not consistently support children to learn about the expectations of their behaviour and resolve minor conflicts with more confidence and independence. • Staff miss some opportunities to extend children's respect and understanding of other people's similarities and differences from around the world.