The Counting House Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager is ambitious for all children to learn in a stimulating environment and achieve well. She has high expectations and considers the views of parents and staff to guide the nursery's further development. She is strongly supported by the staff team and the nursery's owners and management team.

• All groups of children make good progress in their learning during their time in the nursery. Overall, they acquire the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to succeed in their future education. Older children are well prepared for starting school.

• Staff keep children safe. They understand how to identify any concerns and procedures to ...record and report them. • Relationships with parents are extremely positive.

Parents typically comment on the warm and welcoming environment and children's good progress. Staff's regular and detailed communications to parents contribute to the children's good achievement. • Staff plan motivating and imaginative activities to engage children's interests and promote understanding in all aspects of their learning.

For example, staff make good use of young children's fascination with trains and railways to develop their knowledge of different shapes when they lay out the tracks. • Staff help children to develop good personal and social skills. Children learn to cooperate and play and learn together.

They are well behaved and learn to follow increasingly complex instructions. • Staff do not consistently promote children's reasoning and creative thinking skills to the highest levels. • Occasionally, resources are not stimulating enough to fully engage children's interest.