Squiggles Day Care & Activity Club Ltd

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Since the last inspection, the provider has employed a new manager.

Together they have successfully tackled the weaknesses through effective self-evaluation. This has helped to significantly enhance the quality of the provision. • Observation, assessment and planning is effective.

Key persons work well with parents to identify children's knowledge and skills from home when they first start. They use this information to help inform their initial assessments. • There are good arrangements to help children settle into the nursery.

Children feel reassured about moving to the next base room and have confidence about their future move to schoo...l. • Children develop a good range of skills in their learning. Younger children learn how to use tools to explore different media such as sand.

Older children are developing an understanding of two-and three-dimensional shapes. • Staff do not share detailed enough information about children's learning and progress with the providers of other settings children attend. • The manager is still embedding the new supervision arrangements to help address minor variations in the quality of teaching.