Leaps and Bounds Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Managers show passion and motivation to provide a high-quality service. They regularly seek the views of staff and parents to help them identify areas for further improvement. They make changes which have a positive impact, such as moving the youngest babies to a calmer area of the nursery.

• Managers and staff clearly enjoy their work and have considerate, positive relationships with each other, children and parents. Morale is high, which helps the staff to provide a warm and nurturing environment. Babies and children are happy, settled and secure.

• Managers and staff recognise and support the individual needs of children very well. They work t...irelessly to help ensure children receive the care and learning they need. Children make good progress from their starting points and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities make very good progress.

• Staff listen carefully to children and extend learning well. They consistently encourage children to choose resources, explore, investigate and work things out for themselves. Children are independent and show positive attitudes to learning.

• Managers do not consistently monitor the effect staff training has on raising children's learning and development outcomes. • Children generally behave well but, at times, staff do not give some children in the preschool room clear and consistent guidance about how to control their excitement. As a result, the high level of noise prevents children's good listening.