Valley Hill Forest Nursery and Kids Club

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • The provider is effective in promoting opportunities for staff to develop their continuous professional development.

Regular supervision and appraisal meetings help staff to feel valued and enable them to identify their own strengths and areas for improvements. • Staff provide daily opportunities for improving children's physical development. Older children explore a stimulating range of experiences in the forest school activities they take part in.

Younger children move their bodies happily to music and quickly develop awareness and enjoyment of well-known action rhymes. • The key-person system is effective. The individual care needs of children ...and young babies are met effectively and they form secure bonds and attachments with staff.

• Children develop a good understanding of how to keep themselves safe from relevant risks. For example, older children learn about their safety and the safety of others, as they confidently climb, balance and jump from fallen trees in the forest area. • Children's health and well-being is promoted well.

Staff provide children with a healthy, well-balanced diet of fresh food that includes a variety of fruit and vegetables. It is not yet outstanding because: • Staff do not always promote effective strategies to engage parents in their children's learning, both in the setting and at home. • On occasions, staff do not adapt their teaching to ensure that the most-able children receive high levels of challenge to help them make the best possible progress.