Monkton Nursery School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is outstanding • The management team is inspirational in its pursuit of providing the highest quality of care and education for children.

Highly effective evaluations and exceptionally detailed improvement plans are very clearly focused on ensuring that children's independence and learning are prioritised in all aspects of the provision. • The management team skilfully monitors staff performance and training needs to ensure that all staff consistently develop their practice to a high level. The managers expertly identify areas for development that result in changes to continually improve and sustain exceptionally high standards for all practices within the nursery....

• The quality of teaching is excellent and all staff are extremely knowledgeable about the level of development of children in their care. Staff have extremely high expectations of what children can achieve. The superb range of learning experiences successfully motivates and inspires young minds.

Children are highly confident learners and they thoroughly relish their learning. • Children's individual developmental needs are met exceptionally well. Exemplary partnerships, with an extensive range of professionals, support a very successful, joined-up approach to supporting children's development.

This helps to ensure that all children make the best possible progress from where they start in their learning. • Parents are extremely complimentary about the level of care that staff provide for their children. They comment on the wonderfully nurturing ways of staff, including their drive to ensure that all children fulfil their maximum potential.

• Mealtimes are exceptionally sociable. Children thoroughly enjoy eating healthy, nutritious meals together. They begin to learn about the importance of eating healthily.

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