Foresters Den Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • The manager monitors and evaluates staff's teaching practice well. She successfully recognises strengths in their teaching and areas for development, such as through regular supervisions, and supports them as needed to help maintain good outcomes for children.

• Children are happy confident and settle into the nursery well. Staff are friendly and approachable and build strong bonds with children. They support children's emotional needs and well-being effectively.

• Staff form effective partnerships with parents. They regularly share information with parents about children's development to help keep them well informed about their progress and invol...ve them in their learning at home. • Children make good progress and develop the skills needed for their future learning.

Staff support children's communication skills particularly well, such as while encouraging them to sing rhymes, to help support their language and sentence formation. It is not yet outstanding because: • Staff do not organise the use of some equipment, such as furniture, and activities that involve mixed age groups of children effectively to ensure they closely match all children's stage of development. • At times, staff miss opportunities to encourage children to do things for themselves during daily routines to help enhance their growing self-esteem.