Woodlings Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The experienced and knowledgeable leaders have worked with local authority advisers to identify priorities for development.

Since the last inspection, they have worked hard together with their dedicated staff team to make significant improvements. • Staff know and understand how to use newly developed systems to observe the achievements children make in their learning. They confidently use this information to track the progress children make.

• Children make good progress from their starting points. Staff use the next steps they identify in children's learning as a focus for planning activities and experiences. • Children are generally well suppo...rted to build secure and meaningful relationships with familiar adults.

This reinforces their self-confidence and emotional well-being. • Children benefit from successful communication methods used to involve parents in nursery experiences. Staff confidently share relevant information to promote continuity in children's care, learning and development.

• The arrangements for performance management are not yet embedded in practice enough to build as far as possible on the good quality of teaching. • Leaders do not always sharply focus their monitoring of the progress that children make, in order to make sure each group benefits from highly tailored support that promotes their rapid progress. • Some adult-led activities and routines are not organised well enough to help children to engage and gain the best opportunities for learning.