Footsteps Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is outstanding • The nursery benefits from the outstanding and inspirational leadership of the manager and the exceptional practice of the highly qualified and motivated staff team. They demonstrate an incredible passion to maintain the highest standards attained at their last inspection and continue to create a highly stimulating, exciting and nurturing environment for all children.

• Teaching is outstanding. Staff's understanding of the educational philosophy they apply in the nursery is excellent and effectively meets the needs and interests of all the children attending. Staff are extremely competent in planning a broad range of exciting activities that motivat...es and engages children to play and learn.

• Staff place top priority on helping children to achieve to their full potential. They have high expectations of them and use their comprehensive knowledge about each child's learning style, level of achievement and interests to support children in all aspects of their learning and development. • Partnership working is excellent.

The cohesive approach with parents, carers and multi-agency teams enables staff to meet children's individual needs exceptionally well. Key persons, senior staff and special educational needs coordinators scrutinise all children's learning from the outset. This helps them to respond rapidly to children's individual needs when they require additional help and support.

• The manager and staff are superb role models who set high standards for children's behaviour. Children behave impeccably. They demonstrate exceptionally strong attachments with staff and parents report that children settle in quickly.

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