Little Shrimps Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Children arrive at nursery happy and confident.

They enjoy close relationships with their key persons, who are sensitive and respond well to children's individual needs. This helps to promote children's emotional well-being and confidence to explore and learn. • There are highly effective partnerships in place with other professionals.

This means that children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are extremely well supported and make good progress. • The quality of teaching is strong. Staff use a range of teaching strategies to pose questions, challenge children's thinking and support their learning across all areas.

Childr...en make good progress. • Children are supported very well in their personal, social and emotional development. Staff regularly encourage children to share how they are feeling, using visual aids to support their communication.

Children respond to their peers' expressions of feeling sad, explaining how they need to look after one another. • Children have wonderful opportunities to learn about people and communities beyond their own experiences, in relation to their understanding. Children explore a range of traditional musical instruments linked to their Chinese New Year celebrations.

• The manager is not currently included in supervision and performance management to allow the provider to rigorously monitor practice and provide required support. • Information gained from parents regarding what children have already achieved ahead of starting nursery is not fully utilised to inform early assessments of learning. • Recently enhanced self-evaluation has helped managers identify areas to improve.

However, action plans do not always fully consider the views of staff, parents and children. Furthermore, recommendations from the last inspection have not been fully addressed. For example, monitoring of groups of children is still in its infancy.