Highview Kindergarten Ltd

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The long-standing manager and staff team have high expectations for the children in their care.

They ensure that all children benefit from good-quality learning opportunities, enabling them to make progress in their learning and development. • Parents are very positive about the care and consideration staff show towards their children. They are well informed about the progress their children make.

Staff use successful strategies to support children's continued learning at home. • Staff have developed effective partnership working and good links with local primary schools. This ensures children are very well prepared for their eventual move to sch...ool.

• Staff work well with other professionals to provide good support to children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. They help to address gaps in these children's learning and guide them to achieve well-planned targets. • Staff are kind and caring with children.

The effective key-person system enables children to settle quickly and feel safe. This effectively contributes to their emotional well-being. • Children behave well.

They are familiar with the routines of the nursery day and respond positively to their interactions with staff. • Management has not used self-evaluation effectively enough to identify precise targets, to help drive overall standards to an outstanding level. • Occasionally, staff do not consistently use observation and planning to target precisely the next steps in children's individual learning, so they all make high rates of progress.