Laindon Neighbourhood Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager and staff form an effective team and work together with enthusiasm. They demonstrate a strong commitment to continuously improving the quality of children's learning experiences.

Self-evaluation is ongoing and is successfully used to identify where the provision can be enhanced. • Staff know children well. They talk confidently about where children are in their learning and development and what they need to do to support their continuing progress.

As a result, children make good progress. • Staff are caring and kind and form good relationships with children. Children are happy, settled and confident to explore the activities and envir...onment.

Children demonstrate a real sense of belonging. • Staff build trusting relationships with parents and keep them fully informed about their children's development. They use a range of imaginative strategies to encourage parents to support their children's learning at home.

• Staff understand the importance of promoting children's good health; for example, by providing healthy, nutritious snacks and plenty of opportunities for play outdoors. • Staff do not consistently make the most of opportunities to extend and build on the older and most-able children's learning. • Monitoring of staff practice is not rigorous enough to identify and address inconsistencies, to raise the quality of teaching to the highest level.

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