Playdor Nursery School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The leadership team are proactive and seek innovative ways to make beneficial changes that improve children's early start to learning. The leadership team have detailed targets to improve the setting with ongoing vigour and commitment. • Staff are friendly, supportive and know children in their care well.

Staff help children learn about the language of feelings and emotions and how to manage these relevant to their age and stage of development. • Older children demonstrate wonderful dispositions to their own learning. They are curious, thoughtful and learn to work in collaboration.

Staff help children to develop their problem-solving skills. For ...example, children impressively work as a team when building an obstacle course in the garden. • There are effective relationships with parents in place from the time children start at the nursery.

Staff use a variety of communication methods to exchange information with parents about their child's daily activities and progress. Staff consider children's experiences at home and nursery in the planning. • Staff make regular observations and assessments of children's development.

They include input from parents and children when planning the next steps for children's learning. The leadership team monitor children's progress closely to help them to identify and address any potential gaps in achievement. For example, this has led to a focus on supporting children's communication and language.

• Staff who work with babies do not provide as many opportunities for babies to develop and extend their early physical mobility. • Occasionally, staff do not create enough opportunities to extend the level of challenge and enhance children's learning even further. • Although staff receive training and support from the leadership team, some staff do not reflect on their practice and need more focused professional development to raise the quality of good teaching even further.