Kiddywinks Neighbourhood Nursery and Preschool

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The management team supports staff well to continually develop their professional knowledge and skills, such as through ongoing training opportunities.

For example, this has helped to raise staff awareness of the ways children learn and develop as an individual through their play. • Staff are friendly and welcoming and get to know children's individual routines well. For example, they cuddle babies when they are feeding.

Children develop a positive sense of emotional well-being. • Children enjoy a good variety of play experiences that support their individual ideas and motivate their interest in learning effectively. Staff identify children's nex...t steps of learning well to help them make good progress.

• The management team and staff continually evaluate practice to make ongoing improvements. For example, they have recently made positive changes to snack and mealtimes to help children enjoy healthy meals and develop their social skills. • Staff do not organise changes in daily routines and activities consistently well, such as when children get ready for outdoor play, and at times, noise levels become high.

This does not support children's independence skills or concentration as well as possible. • Although staff count often with children in their play, at times, they miss opportunities to develop children's mathematical skills further. For example, to reinforce children's awareness of matching written numerals with quantity.