Secret Garden Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff support children's emotional development well.

For example, staff sensitively encourage children to think about how their actions impact on others' feelings. Children are well behaved and show consideration for each other and their environment. • Staff work well with other professionals to support children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, to make good progress in relation to their starting points.

• Parents are very happy with the nursery. They say communication is good and staff are committed and helpful. Staff work hard to develop and maintain good relationships with parents.

• Staff support ch...ildren to develop skills that help them to become independent at an early age. Older children learn to serve themselves fruit at snack time and to serve themselves drinks, pouring milk carefully from jugs into cups. • The staff are keen to further their skills and knowledge.

For example, many have recently started undertaking higher level qualifications. • Some staff do not pitch activities at an appropriate level to offer suitable challenge to children that maintains their attention and engagement. • Occasionally, staff do not follow and respond to children's emerging interests to allow for greater spontaneity in their play and extend each child's thinking and learning even further.