Aunt Mary’s

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The planning and assessment system is effective.

Staff follow children's interests during play and use these opportunities to extend children's learning. Children engage well in activities and are motivated to learn. • Partnerships with parents are good.

Parents describe how they enjoy sharing information to support their children's learning. Staff offer ongoing feedback about children's achievements. This helps to promote consistency of care and learning.

• The well-qualified team demonstrate a range of skills and knowledge to enable them to promote children's speech, language and communication skills. For example, older children access..., well-planned, small-group activities to explore sounds and letters. This helps children to develop the skills they will need to learn how to read and write.

• Managers promote a culture of vigilance. They complete risk assessments to minimise potential risks. Where necessary, they make changes to the setting following the review of accident records.

This helps to promote children's ongoing safety and well-being. • Staff have not fully explored additional ways to extend children's good awareness of similarities and differences between themselves and others even further. • Staff do not always provide opportunities for children to extend their learning in the outdoor environment.