Woodlands Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Managers have a positive approach to improvement. They involve all staff in the creation and review of long-and short-term improvement plans.

This helps the team to focus on how to make the nursery even better. • Staff actively seek opportunities to share and find out about best practice in other settings. This is helping them to improve their own provision.

• Teaching is strong. Staff provide exciting opportunities for children's learning. For instance, they carefully consider the needs of the children attending each day and plan their provision around children's interests and next steps.

This is helping to improve children's involvemen...t levels. • Staff organise a range of exciting opportunities for children to get fresh air and exercise. This is illustrated when children take part in activities such as yoga and 'cycling and scooting week' at nursery.

This helps to promote children's good health. • Staff establish strong partnerships with parents. They share information with them regularly about their children's learning.

They provide plenty of suggestions for parents to help them to support their children's learning, such as through home-learning activities and resource packs. • Staff help children to develop a positive awareness of their community. For example, children regularly visit the local care home for the elderly.

They read stories, sing songs and share their 'family books' with residents. • Children make good progress from their starting points. They demonstrate positive attitudes to their learning and they are well prepared for the next stages of their education.

• Staff are well supported through staff supervisions and training. However, systems for raising the quality of teaching are not yet fully embedded. • On occasion, staff are less effective in consistently helping children to understand how to keep themselves safe.

information about their children's achievements at home. Parents share photographs in

their child's 'family book'. Children enjoy sharing these with their friends.

This supports their personal and social development and helps to boost their self-esteem. Outcomes for children are good Children are keen and enthusiastic learners. They develop strong problem-solving skills as they use small sticks and sweets to construct houses that will stand up.

They experiment and negotiate with their friends as they use crates, planks and tyres to make routes to travel along. Children develop secure physical skills. They scoop and tip water carefully into a two-bucket balance.

They predict which bucket contains the most water. Children enjoy playing hopscotch. They jump, jog and hop on numbers up to 10.

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