Nailsworth Playgroup

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The nursery staff provide a warm, welcoming environment. They ensure children build strong attachments with their key person.

Children are happy and confident. • Staff use effective behaviour management strategies. Children play cooperatively and behave well.

For example, older children play together courteously and say 'please' and 'thank you'. Younger children learn to share resources, such as the garden swing. • All children make good progress from their initial starting points.

Leaders make good use of additional funding to improve outcomes for children, particularly their social and emotional development. Strong relationships with t...he host school help to ensure children are well prepared for their eventual move to school. • Partnerships with parents and other settings children attend are good.

Staff encourage them to get involved with children's learning by providing information and ideas to help children achieve their goals for continuity of learning. • Leaders and staff review and evaluate the nursery well. Recommendations from the last inspection are met.

For example, staff give every child lots of opportunities to make decisions about what they want to play with, to help extend children's learning through their own interests. • Some committee members have not fully completed the relevant documentation to ensure their suitability for their roles. Leaders have ensured each member has been checked with the Disclosure and Barring Service.

However, they have not ensured Ofsted has received the required information, to enable full checks to be completed within the required timescales. • Occasionally, staff working with older children interrupt their self-chosen play with other suggestions, which disrupts the flow of their ideas. • Leaders have not fully embedded all opportunities to help staff raise the quality of teaching to higher levels.