Muddy Puddles Day Nursery and Preschool

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager is ambitious and has a clear vision for the nursery. She uses effective self-evaluation to continually identify, and help her address, areas for improvement. • Staff extend children's language skills well, for example, through targeted support and intervention programmes.

Children's vocabularies and speech are developing quickly, and children are confident communicators. • Staff have strong relationships with parents. They regularly exchange information to help keep parents well informed about their children's learning and to make links from home.

Parents are complimentary about the care and learning that their children receive. • Sta...ff get to know children well and children are happy. Staff build nurturing relationships with children, helping to secure children's emotional well-being.

• Staff prepare children well for their eventual move on to school. Children develop a range of skills that they need for their future learning. • Partnership working is strong, particularly for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).

Staff regularly work with a range of other settings that children attend and professionals from other agencies, to share information and work together to meet children's individual needs. • Occasionally, staff do not interact as often and effectively as they can to fully extend children's learning and, at these times, some children lose focus and find it more difficult to remain engaged in cooperative play. • Staff miss some opportunities to extend children's mathematical understanding, particularly of number.