Wendy House Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff are very friendly and welcoming and implement the well-established key-person system successfully. Children form very secure attachments with all staff.

This helps to support children's emotional development. • Overall, the quality of teaching is very strong. Staff use observation and assessment effectively to identify individual children's achievements and what they could do next in order to help children make further progress in their learning.

• Staff support children's communication skills well. For instance, staff consistently model clear language and talk to children as they play. Staff use effective questioning methods and give older... children plenty of time to think and respond.

All children become confident talkers. • Staff regularly exchange information about children's achievements with parents and other settings that children attend. This helps to support a consistent approach in children's care and learning.

• The provider, who is also the manager, has very high ambitions to provide a high-quality provision. She regularly seeks the views of local authority advisers and other professionals. These effective partnerships help her to evaluate and build upon practice.

• Staff do not always organise large-group activities well enough to support younger or less-able children's developmental needs. Sometimes, younger children lose interest and become distracted during lengthy activities. • Information gathered from parents about children's prior learning is not detailed enough to support highly effective planning.