Rascal’s Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • The management team monitors children's progress regularly.

It uses this information to identify areas of learning requiring additional support and to make improvements to the provision. Staff discuss the progress of their key children during supervision meetings. This targeted support helps all children to progress well.

• Staff tell stories in an engaging and enthusiastic manner. They encourage children to join in with familiar parts and to think about what might happen next. This encourages children's language and literacy development.

• Children enjoy practising a range of physical skills. For instance, older children climb confidentl...y up the ladder on the pirate ship, they pedal tricycles and push scooters. Babies climb on soft-play blocks and pull themselves to stand.

• Children express themselves with a range of materials, including paint, chalks and crayons. They develop a strong pencil grip and enjoy sitting next to their friends while talking about their pictures. • Parents appreciate the supportive and approachable staff members.

They praise the smoothness of children's transitions between rooms and the progress children make. It is not yet outstanding because: • Staff do not consistently respond to children's curiosity in objects or events to extend their understanding of how things work or happen and why. • The arrangements for monitoring individual staff performance and developing their practice are not highly rigorous and incisive to raise the quality of teaching to a consistently outstanding level.