Redlands Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The well-qualified staff team has access to effective performance management systems, such as appraisals and peer observations, to help to identify any specific training needs.

The management team actively encourages staff to continue their professional development to raise the overall quality of teaching. • Children develop good communication and language skills. Staff provide a running commentary as children play, use descriptive language and support their listening and attention during group activities.

• Interactions between staff and children are positive. Children continually extend their personal, social and emotional skills. They clearly ...feel safe and secure in the nursery.

• Children gain necessary aptitudes for their eventual move onto nursery and school. They are eager to take part in a wide variety of motivating activities and are willing to have a go. • The management team implements thorough induction arrangements.

This helps to make sure new staff, including apprentices, are well informed about daily routines and expectations. • Even though staff regularly observe and assess children, they do not effectively use this information to consistently support younger children to make even better progress in the specific areas of learning. • Although parents are kept updated about their children's day at nursery, the management team and staff are not fully successful in engaging them to share ongoing details about their children's abilities at home in order to create a joint approach to their learning.