Charing Cross Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager is committed to developing the nursery continually and providing a caring and good-quality learning environment. She gathers the views of staff, children and parents to help her in planning future improvements.

• Staff working in the baby room provide high levels of care and emotional support. Babies are happy, settled and show a real sense of belonging. • Staff know children well.

They make effective use of what they know about the individual children to plan for what they need to learn next. This helps to motivate children to play and explore. • Children have excellent opportunities to respect and understand the similarities and dif...ferences of people in the wider world.

They thoroughly enjoy an extensive range of interesting activities, for example, they learn about Black History Month and Diwali. • Staff have developed strong and trusting relationships with parents. Daily conversations between staff and parents help to provide a consistent approach in supporting children's care and learning.

All children make good progress. • Sometimes, staff do not make the most of every opportunity to challenge and extend children's learning to help them achieve at the highest level. • Systems for evaluating staff practice do not have a strong enough emphasis on supporting them to raise the quality of teaching to an outstanding level.