The Little Ripley Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Leadership and management follow safe recruitment procedures. They provide new staff with a thorough induction to ensure they are clear about their role and responsibilities.

• Parent partnerships are strong. Staff work closely with parents of new children to gather detailed information about children's development and care needs. They provide parents with effective ongoing guidance to help children's continued learning at home.

• Staff support children's communication development skilfully. Babies listen attentively to the rise and fall of staff voices, toddlers eagerly practise their sounds and pre-school children experiment with adventurous la...nguage choices. They describe features of dinosaurs, such as 'sharp pointy horns' and state that a picture of a storm is 'creepy'.

• Children make good progress and are motivated to play, explore and make new discoveries. They gain a good range of useful skills that prepares them well for school. • Staff have high expectations of children's behaviour.

Children behave well and respond positively to the gentle reminders from staff about what is expected of them. • The manager does not make the best use of information obtained from the monitoring of the quality of teaching, to help staff to improve their good teaching even further. • Some staff do not use children's assessment information to precisely target the next steps in children's learning and provide them with the highest level of challenge.