Little Learners Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is outstanding • Practice is of an extremely high quality and should be celebrated for its success. The provider is passionate about delivering a service that ensures all children receive the best early education possible.

• Outdoor learning is a key area that the provider and all practitioners are tremendously enthusiastic about. This is evident in the experiences planned in the outdoors for young children to play and learn. They have opportunities to use their thinking skills to decide if a large structure they have built is safe to climb.

Children learn how to make fires safely, and for a purpose. • Practitioners are highly qualified, skilled and knowle...dgeable. They plan and deliver extremely successful parent information sessions.

For example, they run workshops for parents on topics such as behaviour, outdoor play or communication and language. Parents can freely access home-learning bags that include a fantastic range of resources and leaflets to support their children's learning at home. • Practitioners make excellent use of teaching opportunities.

They use the questions children ask to tap into their interests and skilfully extend their experiences. For example, when a woollen blanket is given as a gift, children ask how it was made. Practitioners teach children about where wool comes from and the skills needed to knit.

They provide children with the tools to try out knitting for themselves. • Children's experiences are exciting and varied. Practitioners favourably stimulate their learning.

For example, when growing cress, children learn about growth and decay. They notice and talk about the differences in plants that are watered versus ones that are not. Children use their highly developed thinking skills to request to plant their own apple seeds from their snack, to 'see what happens'.

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