Woodlands Early Learning Ltd

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager is ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. She works closely with the owner and staff and parents.

She values their views to help her identify further areas for development for the pre-school. As a result, they have renovated the home corner and introduced guinea pigs to the children. This has had a positive impact on the children's general well-being.

• Children are happy and confident. They have very good relationships with their key person. They arrive happy and keen to start their day.

All staff interact with children in a calm and reassuring way, staying close and offering support when needed. • Partnerships w...ith parents, other providers and professionals are good. Information about children is shared in a range of ways.

This contributes strongly to meeting children's needs and ensuring consistency in their care and learning. Parents are complimentary about the nursery and comment on how much their children enjoy attending. • Children are eager to explore and learn.

They are developing good communication skills, enjoy being physically active and demonstrate good social skills as they play with their friends. • Staff do not fully extend children's thoughts and ideas or provide enough challenge, in particular for the older and most able children to them to make the best possible progress. • Staff do not fully share aspects of children's differing backgrounds and cultures, including additional languages, to promote an understanding of similarities and differences between themselves and each other.