Clever Clogs Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is outstanding • The energetic, influential and inspiring management team actively seeks the views of parents, staff and children to ensure the highest levels of achievement and quality for all.

Staff in each room are highly reflective practitioners and this brings about continuous improvement. For instance, recent improvements in the baby room mean that more resources have been added for children's physical development, to help babies pull themselves up to stand. • Staff expertly plan activities for individual key children.

They follow children's interests and abilities to ensure that all children have access to a varied and wide-ranging curriculum across... the seven areas of learning and development. • The manager and staff monitor and track the progress of individual children and different groups extremely well. This enables them to identify any gaps rapidly and provide exceptionally good support for children to catch up quickly and continue to make rapid progress in their learning and development.

• Children display high levels of positive behaviour as they form warm and caring attachments with staff and with their peers. Staff are excellent role models to the children. They ensure children are exceptionally well cared for, for example, they instantly recognise tired children and they give lots of reassurance as they settle them for sleep.

• Staff establish extraordinarily positive partnerships with parents and keep them extremely well informed about their children's learning. They routinely share children's learning experiences and send out home learning. For example, when pre-school children were learning about shapes, staff asked parents to look for shapes in the environment with their children.