Clowns Early Years Centre

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • The manager and her staff team provide a warm, welcoming and stimulating environment. The friendly staff team creates a relaxed atmosphere where every child is valued and included. • Staff have a good knowledge and understanding of individual children.

They are skilled in enabling children to independently explore and investigate the environment. • Staff establish good relationships with parents. Parents are well informed about their children's progress through daily discussions and are supported by staff to continue and extend children's learning at home.

They speak very highly of the staff team and the care and learning that their children recei...ve. • Children behave well. They understand the rules and boundaries in place.

Staff consistently praise the children. This helps to promote their confidence and self-esteem. • Management and staff are very passionate about developing the nursery.

They actively seek the ideas and opinions of parents and children to identify areas for further development. It is not yet outstanding because: • Staff do not make the best use of their assessments to plan and target teaching as precisely as possible, to support children to make rapid progress in all aspects of their learning. • The manager does not monitor the progress that specific groups of children are making rigorously enough to raise outcomes for all children to an outstanding level.