Scarcroft Green Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The management team has a good understanding of how it wants the nursery to develop and improve.

The day-to-day management is effective and a commitment to build on the already good quality of care and learning is enthusiastically demonstrated. • Staff promote children's good physical development. For example, children enjoy taking part in regular gymnastics activities and embark upon lots of opportunities throughout the day to access the well-resourced outdoor areas.

• Managers and staff engage well with other professionals. They share information and work in partnership with external agencies to address the needs of children and their families.... Children make good progress.

• The well-qualified and experienced staff use their observations of children's play to accurately assess the progress they make in their learning and development. The manager uses a highly effective system of checking assessments of children's learning to identify where individual children may have a possible delay in learning. • Children have opportunities to learn about people and communities that are different from themselves and their own communities.

For example, they taste food from different countries and enjoy a wide selection of books celebrating diversity. • Although partnerships with parents are good overall, staff do not yet consistently gather precise information about children's ongoing learning at home to help better complement their learning in the nursery. • Staff occasionally miss opportunities to extend children's early mathematical skills, such as their knowledge of numbers and counting.