Lowmoor Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager and staff team work closely with parents and specialist professionals. This helps them to build a collaborative approach to support all children's individual needs, including children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).

This excellent support helps ensure that all children make good progress from their individual starting points. • Children benefit from a well-organised indoor and outdoor learning environment. Staff provide a varied range of accessible resources and enable children to make informed choices about their play.

For instance, babies explore and investigate sight and sound toys in the sensory den and ...older children help themselves to wild-animal and dinosaur figures in selected trays. • Children arrive happily and quickly settle into their chosen activities. Older children comment that they enjoy attending nursery and look forward to playing with their friends.

• Staff are kind and caring and know the children well. Children develop close and positive relationships with staff who help children to learn about appropriate behaviour expectations. Babies and young children confidently approach staff for a cuddle and older children learn respect and tolerance for others.

All children are supervised well and play in a in safe and secure environment. • On occasions, staff do not fully maximise opportunities to further extend older children's early writing skills and development. • The manager does not yet fully utilise the systems in place for staff supervision to further identify ways to build on staff's already good practice.