Culcheth Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is outstanding • Children are extremely confident, self-assured and highly motivated to learn. They make individual choices in their play and continually extend their own learning. Children concentrate exceptionally well on their chosen activities and become fully absorbed as they explore and investigate the wonderful experiences provided by staff.

• The quality of teaching is superb. Staff follow and extend children's interests expertly. They accurately identify children's individual learning styles and offer an array of opportunities that make the most of children's spontaneous play.

Children make excellent progress in all aspects of their learning, base...d on their individual capabilities. • The management team demonstrates a strong commitment to working with external agencies. Staff immediately act on the advice given to them in order to provide detailed and targeted activities to enhance children's learning.

The identification and implementation of these timely interventions truly enables children to excel. • Children develop an exceptional understanding of how to manage risks and challenges. For example, children carefully use a china tea set during their imaginative play in the home corner.

They understand that a tea set is fragile and that they must handle it in a gentle way to avoid any breakages. • Partnerships with parents are tremendous. Extensive information is gathered when children first start at the nursery, which helps to inform children's starting points.

Parents continually contribute to their child's learning through the completion of their own 'family observations', daily discussions and shared assessments. • Staff work extremely well together and their commitment, dedication and enthusiasm in children's play are impressive. Subsequently, children develop secure emotional attachments with staff, who are excellent role models for the children.

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