Diggers Forest School Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager is ambitious and very experienced. She accurately sets targets and works closely with the provider and staff to successfully implement these.

The views of parents and children are included in the evaluations of the nursery to help make continuous improvements. • Staff know children well and they have good relationships with them. They help younger children to settle and reassure them as necessary with cuddles and soothing words.

This helps to support their emotional well-being. • Staff effectively enhance children's physical development. For instance, older children enjoy walking to their designated play area in the woods and delight ...in using swings which they help to make.

Staff successfully help younger children's balancing and coordination skills when climbing up steep slopes. • Staff support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) well. They adapt activities accordingly to help ensure all children can take part.

Staff work closely with parents to share information about their children's individual care and learning needs. • Parents are very complimentary about the nursery. They say that their children's confidence and speaking skills have increased since coming to the setting.

Staff invite parents to meetings to discuss their children's progress and they also have daily discussions. • The management team has not fully developed the links with other professionals involved in children's lives to share what they know about children's learning and development. • The staff monitoring procedure is not sharply focused to help each member of staff extend their knowledge and raise the quality of teaching to the highest level.