Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The leadership team has made significant improvements since their last inspection. They have clear action plans in place to identify continuous improvement to the setting.

• Children develop strong bonds with staff, who are kind and responsive to their needs. Children are happy, settled and enjoy their time at nursery. • Staff have a good understanding of how children learn.

They provide a welcoming environment and a good range of interesting activities and resources that reflects children's interests and needs. • Staff have developed good trusting relationships with parents. Daily conversations between staff and parents help to provide a consist...ent approach in supporting children's learning and care needs.

• Staff support children's communication and language skills well. They talk to children as they as play and introduce new words for children to copy. This encourages children to extend their vocabulary.

• Staff do not focus closely enough on the planning of activities beforehand to ensure that they are well prepared. This means that some activities do not maximise learning opportunities for all children. • Occasionally, staff miss opportunities to extend older children's thinking skills and offer further levels of challenge in their learning.