Tinkerbells

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • The manager and staff listen carefully to the views of children, parents and their wide network of professional bodies.

They make thorough evaluations of the nursery and use these to improve the environment significantly, coach their staff and raise outcomes for children. • Staff inspire children of all ages with activities and opportunities for adventures that capture their imaginations, hold their attention and help them to share their experiences together. For example, toddlers delight in searching for, handling and talking about different insects they find.

They learn how to hold them safely and share them with their friends gently. • Highly n...urturing staff quickly develop secure, trusting and warm relationships with children. They are highly responsive to children's individual needs.

Children quickly settle into the nursery and into new rooms. They develop excellent levels of confidence, independence and emotional well-being that prepare them exceptionally well for school. • Children have excellent opportunities to use their physical skills.

Staff use the highly stimulating outdoor area superbly to enhance children's learning. Children are inquisitive, motivated, and behave well. • Partnerships with parents are good.

Parents explain how staff keep them well informed about their children's development and how they share information with staff about their children's learning at home. They are highly complimentary about how well staff support their children. It is not yet outstanding because: • Monitoring of staff's practice is not effective enough to help all staff to build on their already good-quality teaching.