Cedars @ Boot Farm Day Nursery & Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • The management team and staff work well together to create a happy and welcoming nursery.

Staff know the children well and plan a good amount of activities to help support their ongoing learning. • Outcomes for children are good. Staff observe, track and highlight children's next steps in development effectively and ensure they are all making good ongoing progress.

• Staff support children's behaviour well, for example, they encourage children to share and take turns well. Children show that they feel safe and secure in the nursery as they enter with confidence. • Partnerships with parents is strong.

Staff ensure parents are well included... in their child's development. For example, they talk and send home communication books and newsletters to share children's care routines and upcoming events. • Robust recruitment and suitability procedures are in place to help ensure all staff working with the children are suitable to do so.

This helps to keep children safe. It is not yet outstanding because: • Staff have not fully considered how to extend children's awareness of the world, in particular to build on their knowledge and understanding of people different to themselves and the importance of healthy lifestyles. • The management's monitoring of teaching is not sharply focused enough to identify ways to enhance and develop staff practice further, to help raise the quality of teaching and outcomes for children to a higher level.