John Perry Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager reflects well on the quality of staff's practice. She recognises their strengths and any areas that require developing.

She offers good opportunities for staff to develop their skills, such as through well targeted training sessions. • Children have good opportunities to learn about diversity, such as when engaging in activities that reflect other cultural backgrounds. Children learn to respect each other's differences and develop their understanding of different people in the community well.

• Staff are caring and friendly, and form warm bonds with children. They are sensitive to children's needs and thoughtfully support their emotio...nal well-being, such as having photos of children's families in the setting to help them feel settled and secure. • Children make good progress and develop the skills needed for their future learning.

They develop their literacy skills well. For instance, staff talk to them about their drawings and writing, encouraging them to explain what their marks mean. Children confidently share their ideas, and give meaning to the marks they make.

• The manager is in the early stages of implementing new systems for gathering information about children's starting points. In particular, they are still embedding the consistency of these new systems to help strengthen staff's plans for children's development from the outset. • At times, staff do not use their interactions effectively to help extend children's understanding of how to play cooperatively, to further aid their learning experiences.