First Steps

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager and staff have worked hard as a team to address prior areas of weakness. Staff are deployed effectively and required progress checks are completed in a timely manner.

The manager has a clear vision for the setting and works with her staff to effectively reflect on practice. • Children form close attachments with their key person. Staff warmly welcome families into the setting.

Staff are enthusiastic and motivated as they engage children in a wide range of planned and spontaneous learning experiences. Staff interaction helps children to develop new skills in all areas of learning. • Children's good behaviour demonstrates that they feel... safe and secure in their surroundings.

Staff understand children's individual needs well and work closely with parents to offer consistency of care. Children are happy and settled at nursery. • Parents are complimentary about the quality of care their children receive.

They comment that their children make great progress and that they can see a difference in their child's developing speech and language skills. Parents state that they would highly recommend the nursery to others. • All children make good progress in their development and are supported well.

The knowledgeable staff work with other professionals to help identify and support children's individual needs. • Staff's professional development is not yet sharply focused on enhancing specific skills to raise the quality of teaching to the highest level. • While parents share information when their children begin in the nursery and enjoy good communication with staff, they are not always offered further guidance about how to extend their child's learning at home.