Kids & Co

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The management team makes sure that each member of staff's practice is monitored and any training needs are identified and planned for. This ensures staff's teaching is consistently strong and children make good progress.

• Staff have attended training on how to develop children's curiosity and creative skills. They now organise the environment so that children can access a wide range of natural materials. This helps to capture children's interest and to promote their sensory and exploratory play well.

• The management team develops effective partnerships with the local school. For example, staff liaise with the teachers about the best way to pro...mote children's knowledge of letters. Staff provide children with regular opportunities to recognise letters and their sounds.

• Children build and maintain secure emotional attachments with staff. Staff in the baby room cradle young children in their arms as they go to sleep. They use every interaction as an opportunity to build effective relationships with children and to develop their understanding and use of language.

This helps children to feel valued and promotes their self-esteem. • Staff do not provide all parents with as much information as possible about how they can best support their child's learning at home. • Staff do not consistently provide challenge for older children's learning during mixed-age group activities.