Topsham House Day Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • Managers and staff are ambitious and maintain continuous improvement. They provide consistently strong teaching and good outcomes for children.

• Parents are fully involved in the decisions made for the nursery. Staff act on their suggestions to develop the nursery further. For example, a stair gate at the top of the stairs has been exchanged for a locked door that can be opened more easily.

• Staff build very close partnerships with parents, other professionals and agencies. The individual needs of all children are met well, including children who have special educational needs and/or disabilities. • Staff have a very strong focus on developing c...hildren's physical skills and promoting their personal, social and emotional development.

Children enjoy physical exercise provided by a sports coach. • All children settle with ease into this friendly and welcoming nursery. They learn the rules for positive behaviour from staff, who act as good role models.

Children are respectful, polite and behave very well. It is not yet outstanding because: • Staff are not fully extending the language skills of children aged under two years and those children who speak English as an additional language. • Staff are not fully focused on helping pre-school children to share what they are seeing and to consider why and how things work.