Bright Horizons Forest Park Bracknell Day Nursery and Preschool

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Children thrive in the welcoming and nurturing environment. The highly effective key-person system fully promotes children's emotional well-being. Children and staff develop secure and trusting relationships.

• Staff foster children's communication skills well. They work closely with children who have language delay and consistently use effective strategies. For example, they model using simple sentences and use sign language to help develop children's verbal and non-verbal communication skills.

• Partnerships with parents are good. The manager and staff have established strong working partnerships with them. They regularly share information abou...t children's learning and development, so that parents feel fully involved.

• Staff successfully help the youngest children to develop good physical skills. For example, they hold their hands and encourage them to pull themselves up to standing and begin to practise walking. • Children develop the skills they need to prepare them well for their future learning, such as school.

They are happy and confident and show a strong drive to learn and develop new skills. • During some adult-led activities, staff do not consistently encourage children to explore, investigate and find solutions to problems themselves. • Young children are not consistently reminded that some actions, such as running indoors, are not safe as they may cause injury to themselves or others.