Westwards Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager and staff are well qualified and work hard to ensure the individual needs of children are continually met. Children make good progress in their learning from their starting points and are well prepared for their next stage in learning, such as school. • Children show good physical skills.

Pre-school children thoroughly enjoy spending time in the woods with staff at the forest school. Children climb trees, make see-saws using large branches and learn how to use tools safely. • The management team have effective supervision and professional development plans in place, to identify staff training needs.

All staff benefit from regular trai...ning which has a positive impact on the quality of practice. • The management team effectively monitors the educational programmes for children. They track individual and groups of children's learning and development to ensure any identified gaps in learning are swiftly closed.

• Children are well behaved. They are kind, considerate and well mannered. Pre-school children confidently explain nursery rules to newer children, such as waiting to eat their sandwich until everyone has one.

• Occasionally, staff miss opportunities during older children's play to enable them to use and develop their thinking and learning skills. • The setting does not yet explore consistently successful ways to guide parents, so that a shared approach to children's learning is fully embraced. • Occasionally, role modelling by staff is not used to help younger children develop good skills and use of tools.