Westside Day Nursery Ltd

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The well-qualified staff plan effectively overall to build on children's interests and skills to ensure they make good progress. Staff make good use of additional funding to help all groups of children achieve well. • Children have continuous daily opportunities for outdoor play and learning.

Staff skilfully provide an outdoor curriculum that encourages children to take risks and explore the natural world. This supports children's understanding of the importance of an active lifestyle. • 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 emot...ional wellbeing and growing self-confidence. • Management successfully reflect upon practice and see what is working and what is not.

They know what they need to do to improve and to maintain a quality provision. • Parents are very positive about the care and consideration staff show towards their children. They are well informed about the progress their children make and ways in which they can help them.

Parents comment that staff are welcoming to their children and it puts their mind at ease. • Staff do not always gain enough information from parents to accurately identify children's starting points on entry to the setting in order to help them plan effectively from the outset. • Staff do not always allow children the time they need to think and respond to questions in order to help extend their learning.