Crigglestone Day Care

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good Staff motivate children, enhancing their imaginations and creative thinking with effective teaching. Children make good progress and are eager and confident learners.

They show good levels of engagement. Staff create a safe, secure and welcoming environment. Staff create a positive culture and act as good role models.

They help children to develop essential social skills. Children are familiar with, and enjoy, routines, such as lunchtime. This is a very sociable occasion where children benefit from healthy nutritious food.

Parents are well informed about and involved in their children's learning. Parents' evenings and information displays ...enhance the good-quality information sharing with parents. There is a strong drive to improve.

The management team ensures that self-evaluation is inclusive of everyone's views. It is not yet outstanding because: Staff do not always recognise when the youngest children, including those who speak English as an additional language, may need greater levels of support to develop more confident independence skills. Where children have a preference for outdoors, staff do not always maximise opportunities to support their early reading and writing skills.