Rainbows Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Leadership and management of the nursery are strong. The management team demonstrate a very strong commitment to continuous improvement.

They have high expectations of the quality of care and learning for all children. • Children arrive happily and warmly greet their friends and staff. They thoroughly enjoy the time that they spend at this welcoming and friendly nursery.

Staff are kind, caring and attend to children's individual needs very well. • Staff support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) extremely well. They work very closely with other professionals and adopt a range of strategies that help children to mak...e good progress.

For example, they use visual aids so children are aware of what is going to happen next in their daily routine. • The manager effectively evaluates the provision in partnership with the assistant managers, staff and parents. They continually reflect on how to improve the provision.

For example, they have recently refined the systems to record children's learning with increasing accuracy. The team gather regular feedback from parents and address the suggestions that they make. • Overall, the quality of teaching is good.

Staff plan meaningful and purposeful learning experiences, which capture children's interest and keep them motivated to learn. Children make good progress and are well prepared for their move on to school. • Parental partnerships are strong.

Staff keep parents informed of their children's developmental progress and provide good advice to support learning at home. • Staff miss opportunities to extend children's early counting and number skills during their play. • The manager does not fully target the professional development opportunities of staff in order to further enhance and raise the quality of their practice to a higher level.