Highfield Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • The manager and staff create an ethos and environment which highly value and celebrate diversity.

Children develop an excellent understanding of each other's culture. They successfully learn to be tolerant and respect differences in people. • Staff support children who have special educational needs (SEN) and/or disabilities particularly well.

They provide children with individually tailored support and develop strong partnerships with a wide range of other professionals. This helps to promote a shared and consistent approach to children's learning and development. • Staff place a strong emphasis on helping all children to become effective communi...cators.

They use a range of successful approaches to help ensure that all children acquire good listening, attention and speaking skills. • Children's behaviour is excellent. They are incredibly well mannered and politely say 'good morning' to staff and visitors.

Older children show empathy and sensitively offer reassurance to younger children. Staff are very calm and excellent role models. • Parents speak very highly about the nursery and thoroughly recommend it to other families.

They are pleased with the progress their children make and very much appreciate the support that they and their children receive. Parents state that the 'nursery is like an extended family and staff go beyond the call of duty'. It is not yet outstanding because: • The manager does not sharply focus staff's professional development and training to help raise the quality of teaching and children's learning to the highest level.