The Alphabet House Nursery School Baby Unit

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The new manager is conscientious and reflects on the setting's practice well. She successfully recognises the nursery's strengths and areas to improve, making a clear action plan to help maintain the good-quality teaching and care of children. • Children benefit from staff's effective partnership working with parents.

For instance, staff regularly inform parents about their children's progress and offer advice on how to support their development at home to help provide a consistent approach to children's care and learning. • Staff are friendly, caring and form good bonds with children, helping to support their emotional well-being successfully. New childr...en settle well into the setting and are happy and confident to explore their learning environment.

• All children in the baby unit make good progress from their starting points and develop skills that support their next stage of learning. Children develop good early communication skills, as they use words while singing along to rhymes with staff. They learn to match actions to words and develop their understanding well.

• The manager is at the early stage of developing processes to compare the progress made by different groups of children, to help quickly identify and address any areas where children may need a boost in their development. • At times, staff miss opportunities to extend children's learning further, particularly the most able children in the setting. For instance, on occasion, they do not enhance children's understanding of how some equipment works to help aid their learning experiences.