Butterflies

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Managers and practitioners are ambitious for the achievement of every child. They carefully nurture positive, individual partnerships with children's parents and carers.

This helps everyone to work together really effectively to promote children's development and well-being. • Parents praise the caring, approachable team. They feel well informed about activities and care routines.

Parents particularly like the online learning journal. They say that the information helps them to hold conversations with children about their day at nursery. This promotes children's communication skills and self-awareness.

• Practitioners promote children's ...early reading well. This is demonstrated when they read new and favourite stories to children. Practitioners repeat familiar stories and discuss them with children.

This helps children to think about and remember the characters and events in the stories. • The managers' regular monitoring of the performance of practitioners does not focus sharply enough on raising the quality of teaching to a higher level. • There are occasions when practitioners in the pre-school room do not plan group times well enough in order to challenge every child who participates to the highest level.

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