Spring - RAF Scampton

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Leaders are experienced and knowledgeable. The manager has built up a strong team that work well together.

There is an ongoing commitment to raising standards and the delivery of good-quality provision for children and their families. • The nursery is very welcoming and inclusive. Staff working with all ages of children offer lots of praise and encouragement.

This leads to strong emotional bonds building up between staff and children. Staff working with babies are particularly nurturing and attentive. Babies seek comfort from the staff who embrace them with open arms.

• Qualified staff make accurate observations of children's learning an...d development. They use this information to plan purposeful next steps that reflect children's individual needs and interests. This helps children to make good progress from their starting points, including those children for whom the nursery receives funding.

Furthermore, children acquire the attributes and skills needed in readiness for school. • Staff support children's communication and language development. Babies listen attentively as staff sing songs.

They repeat some sounds and copy the actions staff use. Older children eloquently describe their full pot of soil as 'a volcano, up in the sky'. • Children show high levels of independence and develop good self-care skills.

Staff encourage them to complete tasks for themselves, for example, babies take off their own socks in readiness for a messy activity. Toddlers put on their own boots to go outdoors and pre-school children use the bathroom independently. • The manager has good systems in place to monitor and track the progress of individual children and different groups.

This helps to identify and address any gaps in learning swiftly. • The programme for staff's professional development is not sharply focused on raising the quality of their teaching to the highest level. • Occasionally, group activities in the pre-school room lack variety and imagination, meaning that some children are not fully engaged in their learning.

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