Little Acorns Day Nursery (Hampshire) LTD

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The management team has a proactive vision for the nursery. Managers gain the views of children through observing their play, interactions and through conversations.

They develop their environment to reflect their findings, which has a positive impact on children's development. • Practitioners have a good knowledge of how to promote children's learning. They capture moments as children play to identify the progress they are making, for example as babies develop their core strength and begin sitting unaided and older children use numbers when filling up containers.

• Children have secure bonds with their key person. These help them to develop thei...r confidence to explore the environment and find their interests. This supports children to learn how to make their own decisions.

• Children make good progress from their starting points. Children who need additional support are identified early and given the appropriate intervention. Practitioners work closely with outside agencies to support individual children's learning needs.

• Parents speak highly of the setting. They comment on the flexibility that is offered to them as working families and how well their children are cared for. • Some practitioners are highly skilled at extending children's learning.

However, others could offer further challenge to children as they do not make full use of their questioning to encourage critical thinking. • Occasionally, group activities are not well organised in the pre-school room. This leads to children losing interest and provides fewer opportunities for learning.

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