Eastwood Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff provide a broad variety of imaginative activities linked to children's interests. They assess children regularly and make good use of this information to ensure that children are suitably challenged.

Children make good progress. • Staff manage children's behaviour well. They use praise to support positive behaviour effectively and share their expectations with children.

• Staff have effective links with parents and others to support children's learning. For example, they work closely with the local children's centre and health professionals involved in children's care and learning. Staff provide regular updates on children's progress to par...ents.

• The manager has a good understanding of how the nursery can be further improved and has set clear goals to achieve this. • Staff do not make the most of opportunities to allow children to make choices about where they play, particularly for children aged between two and three years. • Staff have not developed ways to increase children's understanding of the benefits of their current healthy routines, such as eating nutritious meals and taking part in daily physical activities.