Little Bugs Childcare

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The nursery has a welcoming and homely atmosphere. Babies and children settle with ease and form close relationships with the staff who care for them.

This helps them to feel safe, emotionally secure and happy at nursery. • The quality of teaching is good. Staff observe children and use assessments to identify effectively their levels of achievement and what they need to learn next.

This helps to ensure children make good progress from their starting points. • Staff actively encourage children's good behaviour and give them gentle reminders about the rules and boundaries in the nursery. They give children regular praise and encouragement, helping... to raise their self-esteem.

Children behave well. • Children have access to a large outdoor space where they are able to engage with features of the natural world. Children are able to explore challenges and to manage risks appropriate to their age and stage of development during, for example, forest school sessions.

• The management team is committed to developing the nursery continually and provides a caring and good-quality learning environment for children. The manager has implemented effective action plans that help to target priorities for further improvement. • Overall, partnerships with parents are well established.

However, some information exchanged with parents, for example the two-year progress checks, is not always shared in a timely manner. • Members of the management team encourage staff to access training experiences to increase their skills and expertise. However, they do not yet fully utilise the systems in place for staff supervision to raise the quality of teaching to the highest level.