Queen Mary Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager has accurately evaluated the quality of care and education that children receive. She works with the staff team to identify areas for development and make improvements. This has a positive impact on the quality of teaching and children's outcomes.

• Children enjoy close relationships with staff. Staff use the information they gather from parents when their child starts effectively. This helps children settle quickly and feel safe in the nursery.

• Staff regularly reflect on their own practice to make improvements. They have meetings with their manager to discuss their professional development and identify how they can build on their s...kills and expertise through training. Recent training, linked to supporting children's language development, has led to the early identification of children who may need further support.

• Parents value the care and support that the staff provide. They are kept updated of their children's progress through daily handover discussions, parents' meetings and online records. • Good systems are in place to help children who require additional support in their learning.

Effective partnership working with other professionals and parents means that children receive targeted intervention to help them achieve. • Children enjoy the opportunity to be independent at mealtimes as they serve their own food and pour their own drinks. Staff are close at hand to ensure that they meet children's individual needs during these activities.

• Staff listen to and respect what children tell them. For example, children vote for their favourite snack choice and staff use this to inform the snack choice for the following week. • At times, some staff do not make the most of opportunities to enhance children's emerging interests in letter sounds to develop their early literacy skills sufficiently.

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