Joeys At Milnthorpe Family Centre

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is outstanding • The manager is ambitious, highly committed and demonstrates a strong drive to promote the best outcomes for children. She successfully creates a culture of evaluative practice within the nursery. Staff, parents, children and other professionals are all involved in the self-evaluation processes.

This helps to inform incisive and targeted improvement plans that help to drive continual improvement. • Staff accurately assess children's learning and together with information from parents, plans spontaneously to enhance children's knowledge. Parents are highly valued as co-educators and are widely involved in all aspects of their children's learning.
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• Monitoring of children's progress is rigorous and swiftly identifies where children may be slow to develop key skills. As a result, specific programmes of support are implemented. Monitoring shows the exceptional progress made by the children attending in receipt of funding and the gaps in all children's learning closing swiftly.

• The key-person system is extremely effective in helping children form highly secure attachments, greatly promoting their emotional and physical well-being and firm confidence to explore. Children display excellent social skills. They inquisitively ask questions to visitors to the nursery and invite them to join in with their play.

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