Apple Tree Day Nursery Ltd

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good The management team is very motivated and ambitious. They strive to continuously improve the quality of service they provide. Managers seek the views of parents, staff and children to address any issues and develop clear improvement plans.

Highly qualified staff use their knowledge well to methodically assess and monitor children's progress. Staff swiftly identify gaps in children's learning. They quickly seek external support to ensure children receive the early help they need.

Children make good rates of progress. Partnerships with parents have a positive impact on children's learning. Staff seek parents' views to help plan effective next steps a...nd learning targets for children.

They share ideas to consistently support children's learning at nursery and home. Children behave extremely well because they understand staff's expectations. Staff are excellent role models to children.

They work hard to provide a highly engaging and stimulating environment that enriches children's learning. Children are focused and motivated, and engage in high-quality activities and resources. It is not yet outstanding because: Although staff attend training and the manager monitors the quality of teaching and children's progress well, systems do not focus as precisely as they could on increasing the quality of teaching even further and the rate at which children make progress.