Spring Park Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff engage effectively with other providers, including local schools. This helps to promote continuity for all children. The manager works successfully with local authority professionals.

This helps to ensure children's needs are identified and met. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those who speak English as an additional language are fully supported. Outcomes for children are good.

• The provider ensures the views of the management, parents and staff are sought and are used to identify areas for further improvement. The manager ensures that all staff are provided with one-to-one meetings. This provides staff with... opportunities to discuss their training, their key children, their ongoing suitability and any concerns they may have.

• Staff are warm and caring and successfully build strong emotional attachments with all children. They use meaningful praise with children throughout the day. This helps to develop children's self-esteem and sense of belonging.

Children behave well and build strong relationships with others around them. • Staff make very good use of the environment, equipment and toys to promote all children's learning. For example, they ensure that children of all ages and abilities are free to move between the indoor and outdoor areas as they wish.

This helps to promote children's independence and confidence and allows them to follow their interests. • Staff do not yet gather detailed information from every parent about what their child already knows and can do, prior to children starting at the provision. • Staff do not always challenge children's thinking to the highest possible level during activities.