Good Foundations Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The dedicated manager and staff team are passionate about the continual development of the nursery. The manager and staff have worked extremely hard to successfully address the action and recommendations raised at the last inspection. • Children form close attachments with staff.

There is a strong key-person system in place. Staff are polite, courteous and provide children with positive role models. Children behave well and interact with each other with growing respect.

Staff encourage them to share and take turns, and children respond well to this. • Children arrive happy and settle quickly. They are confident and motivated to learn.

Th...ey enthusiastically take part in activities and all children make good progress from their starting points. • Staff ensure mealtime routines are calm, unhurried and well organised. Children are fully involved in helping with tasks and they engage in meaningful conversations.

This promotes their social and communication skills particularly well. • Staff know children well. They make ongoing observations of their progress and use the information they gather, as well as their knowledge of children's interests, to plan activities and provide spontaneous learning opportunities.

• Occasionally, children's next steps in learning are not identified precisely enough across all areas of their learning and development. This means that some children are not making sufficient progress in their weaker areas. • Staff do not make the best use of what parents know about their child's learning at home when making their initial assessments of children's starting points.