The Purple Playhouse

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is outstanding • The manager and her deputy are passionate about providing a high-quality service to children and their families.

They lead their well-established staff team with encouragement and enthusiasm. Strong reflective practice is exceptional and identifies areas they can improve even further in the environment, as a group and as individuals. • Staff deployment is superb.

The manager and her deputy are fully aware of the staff's individual and unique qualities. These are utilised most effectively and provide children with an excellent range of stimulating and exciting learning opportunities. Children relish their time in the nursery environment and... are making excellent progress in relation to their individual starting points.

• Staff's knowledge of their key children and their families is commendable. The sharply focused planning ensures that gaps in children's learning are identified without delay. Parents are given a wealth of guidance and the loan of resources to help them fully support their children's learning at home.

• Parents are extremely keen to express their resoundingly positive views about all aspects of the service they receive. In unison they describe the staff as 'fantastic' and the progress their children make as 'excellent'. Parents who have been using this provision for over six years describe it as the most wonderful start in their children's education.

• The staff team is extremely knowledgeable about how to promote children's health and well-being. Staff's understanding of safeguarding is comprehensive. They are extremely vigilant, and they know exactly what they need to do if they have a concern about a child in their care and take immediate action.

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