Greenfields Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Recent changes to the management team have resulted in a clear and targeted development plan to continue to improve the care and education of children. Leaders and managers are enthusiastic and demonstrate high aspirations for the setting. • Staff actively promote children's welfare.

They teach children to keep themselves safe and to understand right from wrong. Staff are vigilant and confident with knowing how to look for signs that a child may be at risk of harm. Robust policies and procedures help staff to know how to respond to concerns about children's welfare quickly and appropriately.

• Partnerships with parents and other family members ar...e a strength of the nursery. Staff include parents in all aspects of nursery life. Parents speak highly of the nursery and know that their opinions are valued.

• All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), make good progress in their learning. Staff understand the importance of early intervention and identify areas where children require further support. They liaise exceedingly well with parents, external agencies and services.

This helps staff to meet the needs of all children. • Staff in the pre-school room are strong teachers of mathematics. They are skilled in taking opportunities as they arise in children's play to extend their mathematical skills.

This is helping children make very good progress in this area. • The manager has not yet fully embedded incisive tracking of groups of children in order to ensure that identified gaps in learning are closing quickly and outcomes for all children are raised to the highest level. • Not all staff use the information gained from their observations of children well enough to provide detailed and precise next steps in children's learning that will help children to make the best possible progress.