The Monkey House

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The provider, who is also the manager, provides strong leadership to the staff team. She seeks the views of staff, parents and children to reflect on the provision and takes effective steps to bring about improvement.

• Staff have good relationships with children and their families. Parents comment that they know precisely what their children are learning and staff support them well to continue this at home. • Staff build warm attachments with the children and meet the emotional needs of children very well.

Children settle well as they separate from their parents and are very happy throughout the day. • Staff promote children's language developme...nt effectively. Children who start with less well-developed language skills quickly begin to catch up with their peers.

• Staff manage behavioural issues extremely well. For example, while they create great excitement among children, they skilfully and sensitively calm them down when required. • The provider closely monitors children's learning, to identify any gaps in learning swiftly.

She works closely with all staff and other professionals to ensure that children receive the support that they need. All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, make good progress from their starting points. • On occasion, staff miss opportunities to challenge and extend children's learning to the highest levels.