Little Acorns Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good The established and qualified team is led well.

The management team ensures staff understand and meet their professional responsibilities effectively. Together, they evaluate practice and strive to improve. The recently adapted environment provides children with a wide variety of stimulating resources to capture their interest.

Children of all ages are very well behaved. Staff create a calm, homely atmosphere in which children thrive. They are skilled in helping children to explain how they are feeling and helping them to consider how other people might be feeling.

Staff regularly observe children to find out what they need to learn next. ...The management team monitors the assessments the staff make of children's development. They compare the progress of groups of children to identify any gaps in their learning.

Children develop confidence and a keenness to share their thoughts and ideas. For example, they approach visitors and say, 'Come and see this,' or explain that 'volcanos have lava and it's very hot'. It is not yet outstanding because: Staff confidence in promoting all children's home languages varies.

Some children who speak English as an additional language get less encouragement than others to use their home language. Staff do not always know exactly what children can already do when they start at the nursery. It takes some staff longer than others to begin to plan for children's learning.