Middlewood Nature Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Highly effective arrangements are implemented to help ensure that staff are suitable to fulfil their childcare roles. Robust safe recruitment procedures are in place and ongoing checks are carried out to keep children protected.

• Staff support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities well and they target teaching appropriately to ensure positive outcomes. They work closely with other professionals and parents to get to know children's individual care and learning needs. This enables staff to provide a consistent approach to learning.

• Staff highly prioritise children's safety. They use risk assessments, policies and procedure...s effectively to ensure children's safety, health and well-being. • Children thoroughly enjoy their activities.

They engage with eagerness and motivation within the exciting, challenging and interesting outdoor natural environment. Children make good developmental progress in relation to their starting points. Managers and staff monitor children's outcomes effectively.

• Children develop their independence skills and initiate their own ideas. For example, they use their imagination to make 'fishing rods' using natural resources. They develop good decision-making abilities and show high levels of perseverance during play.

Parents access information to help them to understand the aims of the forest school and how it complements children's learning overall. • Some daily routines are not organised well enough to help all children remain highly engaged. • Staff do not consistently support children to extend their awareness of how effective hygiene practices contribute towards their good health.