St Paul’s Walden Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff complete observations of children's learning effectively and their progress is monitored closely by the manager. This helps to ensure any emerging gaps in individual children's development and between different groups of children close quickly. • Children quickly develop strong bonds with staff, who are kind and responsive to their needs.

Children are happy, settled and enjoy their time in the nursery. • The nursery is safe and secure. The small staff team is well qualified and experienced.

They are deployed effectively to maintain ratios and ensure that children's safety and needs are met. • Children have numerous opportunities to develop ...their mathematical skills. The good-quality resources enable children to spend a significant amount of time learning to confidently count, recognise numbers, shape and size as they play.

All children make good progress. • The manager has not yet fully embedded sharply focused evaluations of the quality of teaching to move staff's practice forward and support all children's progress even further. • Opportunities for gaining ongoing information from parents about children's interests at home have not yet been sharpened.

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