Puddleducks Kindercare LTD

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The joint managers work together well to provide a holistic approach to managing the setting and delivering good practice. Their individual roles and duties draw upon their own unique skills and they are both passionate about continually developing the setting to grow. Parents speak highly of the management team and practitioners, who they describe as 'genuinely connected to the children, approachable, friendly, caring and professional'.

• Children have access to a large outdoor space where they are able to engage with features of the natural world. Very young children are able to explore challenges and to manage risks appropriate to their age and stage o...f development. For example, they use their increasingly adept physical skills to negotiate steps down into the garden.

• Everyday routines enable children to demonstrate their proficient self-care skills. Children in the 'big room' are able to manage tasks independently, such as putting on clothing for outdoor play. Children leave the setting with the skills needed in readiness for school.

• Transitions throughout the setting and on to school are effectively planned by the management team. Room passports provide children with relevant information about the next room they move on to. These booklets include details about what might be important to them, such as photographs of staff working in the room and the environment.

This helps children to see what the new room is like from the start. • Opportunities for practitioners and management to meet formally are organised, but infrequent. There is scope for the management team to develop further the current arrangements for supervision, in order to extend opportunities for practitioners to discuss and extend their practice through mutual support and ongoing mentoring.