Little Wonders Nursery Penryn

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager and staff work closely together to drive ongoing improvements. The manager has a strong determination to ensure all children achieve the best outcomes in their learning and development. • Staff use information from observations and assessments well to monitor children's progress.

Overall, they provide children with a good range of experiences and activities which they enjoy. • Children demonstrate good mathematical skills from an early age. For example, toddlers are able to sort similar objects with confidence.

Pre-school children are introduced to words, such as 'data' and 'charts', through play opportunities and enjoy comparing and ...measuring objects. • Staff build on opportunities that occur during children's play to enhance their thinking skills. For example, they encourage young children to think about where they need to look to turn on the light.

Children delight in being able to investigate and find things out for themselves. • Partnerships with parents and other professionals are good. Staff share information about children in a variety of ways.

This contributes to meeting children's needs and supporting their development and learning. • Staff do not give enough thought to the organisation of the learning environment in the baby room to ensure that children have enough space to explore, investigate and play throughout the day. • The manager's monitoring of staff's performance is not fully effective to clearly identify how all staff members can raise the quality of teaching to the highest level.