Forest Nursery Limited

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Leaders have a clear and ambitious vision for the nursery. Self-evaluation is effective in reflecting accurately on the strengths and areas for further development.

Leaders show a strong commitment to continually building on the good-quality care and learning they provide for children. • Leaders and staff develop strong partnerships with parents. They share information about children's achievements and offer suggestions for how parents can help children learn at home.

Children make good progress from their starting points. • Staff provide very good support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. They work successfully wit...h parents and outside agencies, to provide consistency in helping children to make good progress in their learning and development.

• Staff have a secure knowledge of how young children learn. They support children's speech and language development well. For example, staff listen and respond to babies' babble consistently and introduce new words into their vocabulary.

• Children behave well. Staff are caring and are good role models. For example, they help children understand how to take turns, share and be kind and respectful to others.

Babies develop close and affectionate relationships with staff and feel secure. • At times, staff do not provide children with the highest level of challenge during activities to build on children's critical thinking skills and to help them to solve problems by themselves. • Although staff supervise children well, they do not make the best use of some opportunities that arise to help develop children's awareness of assessing risks for themselves and how to avoid potential accidents.