Helen Howes Private Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is outstanding • The management team is inspirational and passionate in its pursuit of excellence. It provides the very best possible experiences it can to help children achieve to the highest level.

The management team systematically evaluates the quality of the nursery, and consistently seeks and acts on the views of staff, parents and children. • Staff place a very strong emphasis on supporting children to achieve excellent communication and language abilities. They work extremely closely with other professionals and use innovative approaches to help ensure that all children acquire superb listening, attention and vocabulary skills.

Children make excepti...onal progress. • Children's behaviour is impeccable. Older children are very kind and incredibly empathetic towards others.

Staff have created an extremely inclusive environment where diversity is highly respected. They are excellent role models for children. • Staff are highly responsive to children's individual learning needs and nurture them superbly well.

This starts with the highly flexible setting-in sessions. Babies and young children thrive in this outstanding nursery. They develop exceedingly secure emotional attachments to their key persons.

• Partnerships with parents are excellent. Parents speak extremely highly about the quality of the nursery and the excellent care their children receive that helps them to flourish. They thoroughly recommend the nursery to other families and state that 'it's amazing and their children have been very happy'.