Explorers Childcare Group

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff develop remarkable partnerships with parents. They work extremely well with parents to agree children's next steps in learning, which helps to support children's well-being and ongoing learning in the setting and at home.

• Children form strong bonds with staff. Staff support children's move into the nursery extremely sensitively. This contributes significantly to providing security and stability for children and reassurance for parents.

• Staff have a good understanding of how children learn and develop. They provide children with a good range of interesting and challenging activities that help children to enjoy their learning and achieve ...well. • The manager is ambitious about providing good-quality early years experiences for all children.

She is reflective and includes staff, parents and children in the self-evaluation process. • Most staff successfully support children's learning. There are several strong role models within the staff team.

They demonstrate good-quality teaching to others. As a result, teaching practice is improving, overall. However, some staff need additional support to recognise where and how they can improve to raise the overall quality of teaching practice across the nursery.