Minitots Daycare

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • The leadership team and staff work well together to support the provision to improve continually. For example, they have sharpened supervision and appraisal procedures to monitor and support staff practice and the quality of teaching more effectively.

• Staff provide a range of exploratory resources, indoors and outdoors, that encourages children to learn. For example, outdoors, some of the older children independently access a range of resources which they use creatively to make a telephone to communicate with each other. • Staff have good teaching skills and provide a well-planned programme of learning opportunities tailored to individual children's need...s and interests.

Children make good progress in their learning. • Children's progress is monitored effectively by the leadership team. The team identifies the strengths and areas of development for groups and individual children.

Management and staff then provide additional challenge and support to help close any gaps in learning promptly. • Staff build excellent relationships with parents to keep them well informed of their children's progress and emotional well-being. Parents share very useful information with staff, in order for their children to settle extremely quickly.

In turn, staff build exemplary relationships with the children,which encourages children to take risks in their learning while at the same time making sure they feel safe. It is not yet outstanding because: • Staff do not consistently make the most of opportunities for the older children to improve their early writing skills. • Staff do not consistently promote children's understanding of numbers during their play.

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