Lyndhurst Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff establish outstanding relationships with children and get to know their individual personalities incredibly well. Children have an inspirational level of trust and security.

They are extremely happy and have exceptional levels of well-being. • Staff support all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities. For example, they liaise closely with outside agencies, such as specialist teachers, to share helpful ideas and strategies to support all children to reach their full potential.

• The manager and staff evaluate their practice together well. They hold daily discussions to review how well the day's events int...erested children to learn. Staff use their findings to support their future activity plans.

This helps keep children engaged in their learning. • Children benefit from incredible opportunities to help them value and respect other people's similarities and differences in different communities from around the world. For example, staff teach children about the Bulgarian tradition of eating a special ring-shaped caked called 'kolaks' at Christmas.

• All children have good opportunities to develop their mathematical skills to support their future learning. Children enjoy games such as 'What's the time Mr Wolf?' and large domino games where they count and recognise numbers with confidence. • Children have positive opportunities to be creative and freely express themselves.

For example, they enjoy using paint in interesting ways, including making patterns with natural objects such as sticks, fir cones, pebbles, feathers and leaves. • Staff do not consistently encourage older children to develop their skills and interest in writing to help prepare them for their future learning, including their eventual move to school. • Staff do not make the most out of opportunities to include parents in their children's learning more extensively.