Milly’s Nursery School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • Children are settled and happy.

The established key-person system helps children to build strong relationships with staff quickly. Staff are kind, nurturing and reassuring. They take the time to get to know every child and ensure their emotional and physical well-being is met.

• Leaders and staff methodically monitor children's progress, and individual plans for children are swiftly put in place. Funding is targeted to enhance children's development and to help narrow any potential gaps in achievement. • Leaders are effectively reflective.

They involve parents, staff and other professionals in their ongoing self-evaluation to gain a good ...overview of the nursery provision and where to target improvements. • The manager and staff establish good partnerships with other professionals, agencies and local schools. These result in effective and well-coordinated strategies that promote and support children's good progress.

• Partnerships with parents have a positive impact on children's learning and development. Staff keep parents informed about how their children are achieving. They give them ideas about how to support their children's learning at home.

Parents are complimentary about the quality of care and education at the nursery. • Children play outdoors in all weathers. They develop good physical skills, and enjoy digging, running, kicking and rolling large balls outside.

It is not yet outstanding because: • On occasions, staff step in and provide children with solutions. They do not consistently provide the highest levels of challenge to extend older children's reflection and thoughts, to optimise their independent learning. • Leaders have not fully considered all ways to enhance and monitor staff's ongoing performance, to raise the good quality of teaching to an even higher level.