Bear’s House, St Leonards

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • Children are confident, secure and settled.

They form strong emotional bonds with their key person. • Staff know the children well and plan challenging activities that meet their needs. Children make good progress from their starting points in learning.

• Staff skilfully build on all children's communication skills, including those who speak English as an additional language. • Children benefit from staff's increasing knowledge. For example, following recent completion of a baby project, all staff have enhanced their skills in interacting effectively with babies.

• The manager and staff monitor all children's progress effectively. They su...ccessfully identify and narrow any emerging gaps in children's learning. The manager carefully evaluates staff's practice and teaching to help ensure all children are achieving as expected.

• Strong partnerships with external agencies contribute to children's safety and welfare. It is not yet outstanding because: • Staff do not consistently make the most of all opportunities to help children develop a greater understanding of how to keep safe when taking manageable risks. • Staff do not make the best use of space available in the baby rooms to fully support privacy for babies and very young children.