Little Learners Ltd.

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The nursery benefits from a solid and cohesive management team.

The providers are hands on and very supportive of the manager and staff. They reflect on the quality of the service they provide and seek the views of staff, parents and children to help them make improvements that benefit the children in their care. • Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are supported well.

Staff work closely with outside agencies. They act on their ideas and suggestions to ensure that children receive good quality support, care and learning that are tailored to their individual needs. • Staff work closely in partnership with parents.

...>Parents are included in their child's learning and are provided with ideas to help them continue to support their child's learning at home. Parents speak highly of the nursery. They say that staff are lovely and very caring, children are settled and that staff share lots of information.

• Behaviour is good. Children take part in games to encourage turn taking and sharing. Staff have implemented a behaviour chart which incorporates a superstar, sun, rainbow and cloud.

Parents comment that they find this a good system, and some have implemented it at home. This provides continuity between home and nursery with regard to managing behaviour. • The key-person system works generally well in practice.

However, staff who job share do not always make the best use of their crossover time to share enough relevant information about their key children. • Occasionally, staff's assessment of children is not accurate enough to identify precise next steps that help children make more rapid progress. • Staff do not consistently provide enough opportunities to fully support those children who prefer to play and learn outdoors.