St Catherines C of E Private Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff are sensitive and help children form secure emotional attachments. The key-person system successfully provides a strong base for children's learning and wellbeing.

• Staff provide and plan a wide range of exciting activities and resources. Staff encourage children to join in physical activities, such as playing imaginary games with large parachutes, and support children to use their large muscles. • Children make good progress in their mathematical development.

For example, older children confidently count and compare the sizes of different dinosaurs during small-world play. • Partnerships with parents are effective. Staff keep parents well... informed of children's learning and welfare.

They gather information from parents about what children enjoy and learn at home, so they can complement this in the setting. • The professional development of individual staff does not identify precisely what they can do to raise the quality of teaching to the highest level. • Staff do not consistently provide opportunities for children to use information and communication technology in everyday play, to further their learning.

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