Mouse House Nursery School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is outstanding Staff plan meticulously to provide highly challenging activities for children. They provide carefully thought out and deeply interesting activities based extremely well on all areas of learning. Children make exceptional progress.

Children behave exceptionally well. Staff manage children's behaviour very successfully. For instance, they have high expectations which they share with the children and praise them well for their behaviour.

Staff provide excellent opportunities for children to develop advanced physical skills. For example, a specialist sports coach visits the nursery regularly to teach children very good physical coordination abil...ity. Staff provide excellent challenges where children climb and balance with great skill.

The manager supports staff extremely well. They are supervised regularly and robustly to identify their training and support needs. For example, staff have attended a very broad variety of courses, including a course on early mathematics which led to greater improvements in this area.

Staff give very high priority to children's safety. They have a robust outings procedure and provide excellent supervision to keep children safe. The manager has an excellent awareness of the nursery's strengths and weaknesses and has set highly ambitious goals to build ongoing improvement.