The Stables

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • The well-qualified provider is dedicated to providing high-quality care for children. She works closely with her committed staff to continually identify achievable targets and improve practice further.

Staff share new ideas from their ongoing training to benefit children's learning. • Staff are very good role models. They value children's emotional well-being extremely well to help them feel secure.

Consequently, children happily take part in the extensive focused activities, such as story sessions, to support how they are feeling. • Staff provide children with a wide range of interesting activities indoors and outdoors. Children also enjoy experi...ences, such as yoga, dance and sports, provided by external practitioners.

• Staff provide children with consistent messages to help them to behave well and to treat each other with respect. Children are interested in their surroundings and eager to learn. • The provider and staff build very strong partnerships with parents, other professionals and agencies.

Parents speak extremely highly about the nursery. They say that staff are enormously supportive to them. Staff provide numerous ways for parents to be actively involved in their children's learning and development.

It is not yet outstanding because: • At times, staff are overly enthusiastic in providing answers for children. For instance, they do not give children enough time to consider, and reply to, questions themselves. • On occasions, staff do not always recognise when to adjust their teaching to present even more challenge for the most-able children to extend their learning.