Roadend Farm Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Children are happy and settled in this welcoming, friendly nursery. They have good relationships with staff, who are warm, kind and sensitive to their individual needs. • Staff plan and provide interesting and stimulating activities for children based on a good understanding of their interests and needs.

Children are eager to join in activities. They make good progress in their development. • Staff make full use of the exciting outdoor areas and surrounding farm.

Children benefit from interesting opportunities to explore the natural world, such as using binoculars to spot birds during a walk across the fields. • There is a strong sense of communi...ty at the nursery. Parents value the good-quality care staff provide and speak of them highly.

Staff work with parents closely and successfully involve them in their child's learning. For instance, they keep them up to date and offer activities to continue at home, such as a 'chef bear' with recipe ideas. • Managers and staff reflect on their practice and make changes and improvements that have a positive impact on children's experiences.

For example, they have further expanded the outdoor provision to include a vegetable patch, where children grow vegetables that they help harvest and use to make soup for snack time. • The arrangements for managers to monitor individual staff performance and evaluate their practice are not highly rigorous, to help continually raise the quality of the provision further. • Staff have not fully developed opportunities for children to share their home languages and traditions to further support their learning and enhance all children's understanding of the world around them.