Moat Barn Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is outstanding • The dedicated manager strives to provide the highest levels of care and learning for all children. The staff team works extremely well together to ensure that each child receives highly effective early education that is tailored to their individual needs.

• The outside environment is inspirational. Children show the highest levels of engagement as they find out about the world around them. For example, they explore the wooded area, investigate in the mud kitchen, search for mini-beasts and create willow necklaces.

• Partnerships with parents are excellent. Parents are thrilled with the service the nursery provides. They get detailed informa...tion from staff about their child's progress and appreciate the many ideas they are given to continue their child's learning at home.

• Children make rapid progress across all areas of learning. They quickly develop their communication and language skills, and talk very well for their ages. Staff are very skilled at helping babies to verbalise their feelings and non-verbal communication.

• The monitoring of children's learning is detailed and robust. The manager carries out accurate evaluations of children's progress and swiftly highlights any areas where groups or individual children need extra support. • The key-person system provides children with high levels of support for their emotional well-being.

Parents report that children quickly settle into the nursery and develop very close bonds with their key worker and other staff. • Children's families have a wealth of opportunities to become involved with their child's education. For example, staff invite children to 'rustle up a relative' where family members can spend time with their child at nursery and share in their learning.