Planet Tiny Babies

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • Parents praise the manager and staff. They say their babies and very young children thrive in the warm, gentle and caring atmosphere staff create.

Children are happy, settled and make good progress. • The manager uses self-evaluation effectively to make targeted improvements to the children's learning environment. For example, staff identified an under-used space in the nursery and designed an exploration area children now enjoy using.

• Staff carefully nurture children's emotional well-being. Children are sociable, confident and secure in their relationships with staff. They happily turn to staff for help or comfort, if needed.

• Childre...n easily access a range of resources. They are supported in becoming independent learners. Staff improve children's outcomes.

• Children benefit from stimulating and interesting opportunities to learn about the natural world. It is not yet outstanding because: • Staff do not consistently organise the group activities they provide for children as effectively as possible in order to extend their learning as fully as possible. • The training staff receive does not always focus as sharply as possible on helping them build further on their skills and knowledge, to help the very youngest children make even better progress.