Shotley Kidzone

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is outstanding • Members of the exceptional management team are extremely dedicated, efficient and well organised. Their attention to detail ensures families are fully supported. Parents remark that 'staff are always there to listen and support' and the setting is perceived as 'more of a community than a nursery'.

• Managers are passionate and uncompromising in their ability to make meaningful links with other agencies. This helps to ensure that children receive timely targeted interventions when needed. Staff use informed assessment based on sound and accurate judgements.

They provide other services with information about what children can do well and wha...t they might need further support with. • The setting draws upon the resources in the local community effectively to provide children with exciting learning experiences outside of the setting. Children learn about lambing in the spring at the nearby farm.

They enjoy strawberries for snack from the nearby allotments and go on bus trips to a local care home for singing and stories with the residents. • The outdoor environment is fantastically well equipped to aid children with a range of natural experiences. When finding insects, children are curious and eager to touch and hold them.

They notice what they feel like and remark on any markings or patterns they can see. They show respect and take great care not to hurt them. • Rigorous monitoring of planning, assessment and tracking ensures that children make remarkable progress in relation to their initial starting points.

The enthusiastic key persons know their children exceedingly well and meticulously plan for their needs. • Transitions into, within and out of the setting, when children move on to school, are executed to an exceptionally high standard. When a new child starts at the setting, time is spent with the family collecting information about what they can already achieve and where they need further support.

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