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Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The quality of teaching is strong across the setting. Staff introduce a broad choice of activities for children of all ages.

Children are inquisitive and enthusiastic. They ask questions and investigate the environment. They make good progress in their learning.

• The management team provides numerous opportunities for staff to seek advice and discuss their work responsibilities. Staff are motivated to develop new ideas. They continually introduce resources to create areas which are fresh, bright and appealing to children.

• Staff consistently encourage children to exhibit kind and caring behaviour. They show toddlers how to share toys. ...They demonstrate strategies which older children can use to resolve disputes.

Children display good behaviour in all areas of the nursery. • Staff help children to build on their communication skills in a range of different ways. They encourage children to discuss different topics throughout the day.

Children make observations about the world they live in. They confidently talk about differences between themselves and other people who live in their community. • The management team delays assigning a key person to children who are new to the nursery.

Staff are not consistently able to offer parents and children the highest levels of support during the settling-in process. • Staff do not make all parents aware of how to access policies. Parents do not always understand the workings of the nursery.

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