The Hunny Jar Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good The management team uses its extensive childcare knowledge and experience to effectively monitor all aspects of the nursery's organisation. This helps to secure good-quality provision and successfully promote children's learning and development.

Staff have high expectations of children's behaviour and provide consistent praise and reward. Children quickly learn about the nursery values through their representation as animal characters. Reward jars of pom-poms and marbles help children work together to earn treats, such as visits to feed the ducks.

Staff are knowledgeable about children's early mathematical development. They receive excellent traini...ng and use their learning from this to plan and support children's mathematical skills. For example, younger children happily count, thread and draw linesOlder children confidently recognise numbers and use simple addition in their play.

Children thoroughly enjoy their time at this friendly, nurturing nursery. They form positive relationships with both staff and other children. Parent partnerships are a strength of the nursery.

Staff provide parent workshops and home learning packs to support children's continued learning at home. It is not yet outstanding because: Occasionally, staff working with older children do not recognise opportunities to listen to and follow children's ideas. Babies do not have as many opportunities indoors to develop and extend their mobility and physical skills, such as pulling themselves up to stand.