The Rainbow Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Since the previous inspection, the management team and leaders from the linked primary school, have rigorously driven improvements.

They have used internal and external professional development and training opportunities to improve the quality of teaching. They are committed to achieve the best outcomes for all children. • Babies and children are cared for by well-qualified and attentive staff.

They obtain detailed information from parents as their children begin at the nursery. Staff use this information to inform their assessments about what children know and can do. Staff precisely plan for the next steps in children's learning.

This ...enables them to make good progress. • Parents are very complimentary about the nursery. They say their child's confidence has really grown since they started and that staff listen and act on their comments.

Fathers say that staff make them feel comfortable to come into a female environment and talk about their child. • Staff work very effectively with other professionals, such as speech and language services. As a result, they secure timely intervention to support individual children.

This helps children to make the best possible progress in relation to their starting points. • Children are not able to take full advantage to practise their early mark making because of a lack of resources outdoors. • Monitoring is not always robust enough to ensure the quality of teaching is consistently of a high quality, because it has not yet had time to fully embed.