St. Andrews Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Children arrive at the nursery eager to engage in their play and learning. Staff provide a warm welcome as they greet each child individually.

• Staff know children very well. Observations of children's learning help them to identify accurate next steps in their planning. This supports all children to make good progress.

• Staff work closely with parents to plan an individual settling-in period for each child. This ensures all children are well supported to feel safe and secure in the nursery. • The very stimulating and engaging outdoor learning environment offers children a variety of opportunities to explore and investigate.

Children s...pend time outdoors every day. They develop their physical skills as they run, balance and play with balls. • All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), are very well supported.

Staff are skilled at adapting their practice to appropriately meet children's individual needs, and to allow them to make independent choices during child-led times of the day. • Managers are keen to continue to improve and develop the provision. They are reflective in their practice and make effective adaptations to the provision to best meet the needs of the children.

For example, they recently created a sensory room. • Parents speak extremely positively about the nursery. They say the staff are very friendly and approachable.

Parents especially appreciate how well staff communicate with them about their children's learning and experiences. • Managers have not fully developed ways to support individual staff to evaluate and reflect on the quality of their teaching, to more precisely identify areas for professional development. • At times, learning opportunities indoors do not consistently support pre-school children to be fully motivated and highly challenged within their play and learning.