Penny Bridge Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is outstanding • The nursery is led by an inspiring and passionate manager. The whole management team is incredibly knowledgeable, highly skilled and qualified. Together they draw upon their experience and expertise to provide superb support and guidance for the staff team and to promote the highest levels of progress for all children.

• The manager is driven and shows a clear vision for the nursery. She is highly systematic in her approach to self-evaluation, which is fully informed and incisive, targeting improvement plans exceptionally well. • The learning environment is wonderfully stimulating, particularly outdoors.

Staff create vibrant and innovative... areas rich in exciting and engaging resources, such as the mud kitchen, science lab and minibeast hut. Children are entirely absorbed in their play and show extremely high levels of motivation to learn and take part. • Children thrive in this greatly nurturing environment where their emotional and physical well-being is at the heart of all practice.

Staff are calm, patient and reassuring, firmly establishing positive and secure key-person relationships with children. • All staff teach with careful consideration, being especially mindful of children's existing and developing skills and how they are playing in the moment. They join in sensitively with children's play ideas, using their excellent knowledge and skills to provide specific support and challenge children, continuously showing high expectations.

• Staff tackle various difficult issues affecting the children exceptionally well. For example, staff use books that explore these issues very sensitively, helping children to relate and gain a better understanding. Children have been enjoying reading 'Katie and the Floods', about a little girl and her family impacted by the local area flooding.

• Children experience an entirely seamless transition to school. Truly exceptional partnership working with the school on-site creates a cohesive approach to supporting children in every element of their school readiness. This partnership extends to working together to analyse progress children make within Reception, to identify ways to continuously lay strong foundations for children while in their pre-school years.

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