The Alphabet House Nursery School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • The manager is conscientious and passionate about her role. She has high expectations of staff and keenly acts on the advice of others, such as other early years professionals, to help improve practice and children's outcomes.

For instance, she has successfully raised quality of practice to good levels following the feedback from the last inspection. Self-evaluation processes are effective. • Children are happy and confident.

Staff are welcoming, caring and responsive. They prioritise children's care, and support their emotional and physical well-being effectively. • Staff form effective partnerships with parents.

For instance, staff comm...unicate with parents regularly and share information and ideas with them, to help support children's development at home. • Children make good progress and develop the necessary skills for the next steps in learning and for their move to school. They develop particularly good independence skills.

For instance, children manage their personal needs well, including serving themselves food and drink carefully at mealtimes, and learn to be responsible. It is not yet outstanding because: • At times, staff do not reshape planned activities or follow children's interests and curiosity to build on what they know and extend their learning even further. • Staff in the pre-school room do not plan some large-group activities well to ensure all experiences fully match the needs and stages of development of all children participating.