Sandpit Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • All children are familiar with all staff and the different rooms in the nursery. This means that when they move rooms to play with children of a similar age, they settle quickly. Children demonstrate good social skills.

• Staff provide plenty of opportunities for children to develop their communication and language skills. They ask children to choose toys that represent different nursery rhymes. This helps them to develop their understanding of the words they sing.

Staff talk to children when they play alongside them. They repeat words children say to help them to hear the correct pronunciation. • Staff work well as a team and are good role model...s.

They plan activities that children enjoy. Staff observe and monitor children's progress and this helps them to identify what children need to learn next. Children make good progress in their learning.

• Staff use strategies to engage parents in children's learning in the nursery. They encourage them to ask their children what they like to play with. Staff invite parents to attend sessions to play with their children.

• The manager supports her staff well in their roles through, for example, supervisory and appraisal meetings. She provides staff with ideas and different ways that they can support children, helping to extend their professional development. The provider regularly checks staff's knowledge of the learning and development requirements and their knowledge of safeguarding.

Staff provide consistently good teaching. • Although staff gather information from parents about children's interests when they first start, they do not gather enough information about children's prior learning to help them plan more precisely for children's learning from the outset. • Staff do not work consistently in partnership with other early years settings and schools that children attend, to enhance and complement children's learning.