Jumping Beans, Garratt Park Playgroup

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff provide a good variety of interesting activities. They observe children regularly and use these evaluations to provide successful challenges for them. Children make good progress.

• Staff work effectively with parents. They ensure that communication between home and nursery is good by giving parents regular updates on their children's progress. • Staff manage children's behaviour successfully.

They share their expectations with children and use praise to motivate them to use positive behaviours. Children behave well. • The manager has effective ways of monitoring the performance of the nursery.

For example, she tracks children's pr...ogress closely and supports any children needing extra help. The manager spends most of her time in the group room, and uses this time to observe practice and check planning and assessments that ensure best outcomes for children. • The manager has clear understanding of what the nursery needs to do to build ongoing improvements.

She has set clear goals to achieve this. • Staff have not fully developed the outdoor provision to support the learning of children who learn best outdoors. • Staff have not explored additional ways for children to learn about early mathematics more fully, particularly in relation to size and shape.