Smilers Ltd

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff establish secure and trusting relationships with children. This helps them settle quickly, happily and confidently into their play.

Children have a good sense of belonging. • Staff build and maintain good relationships with parents and keep them informed about their children well. For example, they regularly share helpful advice, such as healthy recipe ideas.

• The manager and staff establish positive partnerships with other early years professionals. For instance, they share children's achievements with staff at other settings that the children also attend. This helps provide children with a good consistent approach to their shared care an...d learning and helps them to continue to make good progress.

• Children have good opportunities to develop their creative skills. They explore paint in interesting ways, including making patterns with marbles and conkers. • Children gain a good understanding of the importance of healthy lifestyles.

For example, they independently choose if they wish to exercise or engage in quieter activities. • There are good opportunities for children to develop their writing skills. Younger children make marks as they draw and older children write their name with confidence.

• Occasionally, staff do not give children time to think through their ideas and respond. For example, staff provide the answers to questions too quickly. • The manager and staff miss opportunities to develop the monitoring systems to track the progress of different groups of children more effectively.