Upperthorpe Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • An effective key-person system is in place. Children form strong bonds with their key person and are relaxed in their care.

This helps to support children's emotional wellbeing and growing self-confidence. • Parents are happy with the nursery. They are confident that their children's individual needs are met, and comment on how the staff are supportive and friendly.

Parents like the good range of activities and praise the high-quality toys and resources that are available. They are pleased with the progress that their children make in their learning and development. • Children are cared for in a safe and clean environment.

They get lots ...of fresh air and exercise, which promotes their good health. For example, children have plenty of fun and enjoy the interesting outdoor areas as they build balancing beams to practise their agility skills. • Children's communication skills are promoted well.

Staff engage children in conversation, extend their vocabulary and help them to become confident communicators. • On occasions, staff do not provide enough challenge during activities for the older and most able children to help them make the best possible progress in their learning. • The manager recognises that she does not consistently make the best use of all monitoring systems to help target support more precisely, in order to raise the quality of staff's teaching to a higher level.