Green Nursery School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff provide opportunities for children to develop their mathematical skills. For example, they count objects with younger children, helping them to develop their understanding of numbers. Older children match numbers to the same quantity of objects.

• Staff work well as a team and demonstrate consistently strong teaching across the nursery. Children are motivated to learn and make good progress in their development. • The manager invites staff to attend supervision meetings to reflect on and develop their practice.

Staff attend training that helps to deepen their understanding of how to support children's communication and language skills. For ...example, they use clear, simple language. This helps children who speak English as an additional language to reach typical levels of development in their speaking skills.

• Staff help all children, including those who speak English as an additional language, to feel valued and appreciated when they first start. For example, when they talk to children, they use key words in the children's home language to support their understanding of routines. All children demonstrate a sense of belonging in the nursery.

• Staff encourage children to be independent. For example, children serve themselves during snack and mealtimes. They make choices about what they would like to eat and pour their own drinks.

• The manager monitors the progress made by groups of children. This helps her to identify gaps in learning and to provide more opportunities for children to develop their understanding of the world. For example, the manager invites police officers into the setting to talk to children about their occupation.

Children learn about people who help them. • Staff do not consistently seek information from parents about children's prior learning on entry to the setting, to help plan more precisely for children when they start. • Occasionally, staff do not support children to extend their learning through self-chosen play experiences.