Cygnets Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • All children, including those learning English as an additional language, make good progress overall from their starting points.

In some aspects of learning, children make outstanding progress. • Children's health and well-being are exceedingly well supported. Staff provide children with exceptional levels of support to help them overcome anxieties and deal with change.

They use innovative strategies to help children understand the impact of certain behaviours. For example, staff use a large model of teeth with some play dough to show children the impact of biting. • Staff provide play and learning resources of exceptional quality, which are spec...ifically sourced and made to support children's individual needs and interests.

The superb presentation of the indoor and outdoor environment is particularly impressive as staff have to set up and pack away the premises each day. Children remain absorbed in good-quality play and learning. • The nursery is well led and managed.

The provider/manager makes effective use of self-evaluation to identify and target priorities for improvement. • Although parents and other early years providers involved in children's care are well informed about the nursery's activity plans and weekly learning focus, the arrangements for sharing information about children's individual next steps in learning are not fully established • Staff do not always provide quite enough encouragement or inspiration for the most able children to practise writing for a purpose. For example, they write children's names on their pictures for them when they are capable of attempting this for themselves.