Parsons Walk Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Leaders and staff form strong partnerships with parents.

They work very hard to provide children and their families with additional support for children's care and learning. Parents consistently state, 'My child has come on in leaps and bounds since they started'. • Well-qualified staff work very well with other agencies and professionals.

This helps them to provide tailored support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Staff complete regular observations and detailed assessments of children's learning. They create intervention plans that are used effectively to enable all children to make good progress.

...>• Staff support children who speak English as an additional language well. For instance, they model clear language and repeat children's words. Staff use information from training effectively to help to promote children's communication skills.

Children's language is developing well. • Children learn about different cultural backgrounds. For example, parents share food tasting sessions, talk about traditional clothing and sing songs with children.

• Leaders are highly reflective practitioners and identify their strengths and areas for improvement well. They include everyone in the self-evaluation process. Staff working in the nursery are encouraged to make positive changes that benefit children.

For example, babies now benefit from a very welcoming and calming atmosphere. • Staff do not fully extend and challenge children's good learning in mathematics to encourage them to achieve even higher. • Staff do not fully support children to gain an even greater understanding of the benefits of healthy eating and the effect this has on their bodies.

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