Kendor Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Managers have good relationships with other professionals and work well alongside the local school. These help to create smooth transitions and provide continuity for children as they move on to school.

• Managers are ambitious and communicate high expectations to all staff. Self-evaluation is accurate and used effectively to raise the quality of the provision. • The key-person system is used effectively to promote children's emotional development and well-being.

Staff listen to children and use what they know about children's interests to extend their experiences. This supports children to be well prepared for the next stage in their learning. •... Staff provide a wide range of activities to develop children's early reading and writing skills.

They support children to strengthen their hand muscles and link letters and the sounds that they represent. For example, children enjoy picking up pasta with small tweezers and carefully placing gemstones on wooden letter shapes as they repeat the sounds. • Partnerships with parents are good.

Parents are complimentary about the quality of care their children receive and the transition process between nursery rooms. They comment that children are secure and confident in the environment. Parents feel well informed about their children's development and appreciate opportunities to share information with staff about their children's learning at home.

• Managers have inspiring methods to gather the views of parents and children. For instance, children are asked to put happy and sad faces on areas of the nursery room that they enjoy so that staff can ensure the environment continues to be engaging. • The systems used for tracking different groups of children are not fully embedded to enable managers and staff to accurately recognise and address any gaps in children's learning.

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