Shotton Children’s Centre

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • The management team strives for continuous improvement. Together with staff they continuously evaluate and reorganise the environment to provide more learning opportunities for children. • Partnerships with parents are a strength of the nursery.

Parents speak highly of the nursery and are fully involved in their children's learning. This helps to support continuity of care and learning between the nursery and home. • Staff have an in-depth knowledge of children's individual needs.

They successfully plan purposeful, exciting activities and experiences for individual children. This helps children to make good progress. • Children are very happy, con...fident and settled in a stimulating and welcoming environment.

Staff provide clear guidance for children about what is acceptable behaviour. Children are aware of the expectations of the nursery and respond positively by behaving very well. • Partnerships with external agencies, such as health visitors and school staff are good.

Staff skilfully work in partnership with other professionals to ensure information sharing is effective. This helps to meet children's individual needs. It is not yet outstanding because: • Although staff complete mandatory training, they have not fully considered looking at a broader range of topics to help to expand their teaching skills even further.

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