Lexham Gardens Playhouse

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager has established a good system of regular staff meetings and supervisions. This helps staff to feel valued and promotes strong teamwork. • Staff have good opportunities to improve their professional skills and qualifications.

They use what they have learned from training to develop their practice further. For example, staff have improved the quality of their observations to help them plan more precisely for the next steps in children's learning. • Staff create strong relationships with children and their families.

This helps children to feel safe and secure. Parents express their satisfaction with the nursery. They say that staff provi...de a warm, nurturing environment and care for their children exceptionally well.

• Staff enthusiastically invite children to join in with activities and engage them in friendly conversations and discussions. This motivates children to learn and helps them to develop a sense of belonging. • Children acquire a good understanding of mathematics.

Younger children practise counting as they sing along to number rhymes. Older children count accurately to 10 and beyond and begin to represent numbers using marks. • Staff get to know children well and value their individuality.

They provide very good opportunities for children to hear and use their home languages in the setting. This helps children who speak English as an additional language to become confident and fluent communicators. • Children listen to adults and behave well.

They form good friendships with other children, which supports their self-confidence and self-awareness. • On occasion, staff do not adapt their teaching to ensure that group activities are sufficiently interesting or challenging to engage all children. • Staff sometimes overlook opportunities to help children extend their independent thinking skills.