Highnam Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • Leaders and staff provide a stimulating learning environment, indoors and outdoors. Children are confident in making choices about what they want to play with and how they want to learn. Children make good progress in their learning from their starting points.

• Staff have a good understanding of how children learn. They complete accurate assessments and monitor children's achievements, and use these to effectively plan and narrow any gaps in their learning. Leaders monitor these systems successfully to support consistent practices throughout the setting.

• Leaders and staff provide good levels of supervision for children. They provide effective s...upport for all children who require extra input or who have special educational needs (SEN) and/or disabilities. This helps ensure outcomes for all children are good.

• 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. It is not yet outstanding because: • Staff are not consistently successful in sharing ideas with parents on how they can support children's learning further in the home. • Leaders do not facilitate staff as well as they could to develop some areas of their expertise to improve children's outcomes even further.