St Nicholas Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • Staff promote babies' and young children's communication and language skills well.

They sing songs as children play and during group times. Children give staff good eye contact and are excited to join in action rhymes. • Children have access to a good range of resources to promote their interests, giving them independent choices in their play.

• Staff effectively complete daily checks of the environment to help maintain children's safety. Recent changes to the baby area promote their safety when they play outdoors. • Staff provide small-group activities to help children to develop their understanding of people and communities.

They help c...hildren to learn about where different people live. Children talk confidently about people and animals who live with them. Children make good progress in their learning.

• The assistant manager monitors the progress made by individual and groups of children. This helps her to identify improvements to the environment to provide children with more opportunities to develop their mathematical skills. • Staff support children well who have special educational needs and/or disabilities.

They work with other professionals and put targeted plans in place to support their individual needs. It is not yet outstanding because: • The programme to support the professional development and supervision of staff is not sufficiently focused to help staff develop their teaching practice to an outstanding level. • Parents do not receive enough information about what children need to learn next to help them support learning at home.