Woodside Children’s Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • Most staff hold relevant childcare qualifications. They demonstrate good teaching skills, supervise children well and maintain appropriate staff-to-child ratios. The manager has effective measures in place to check staff's ongoing suitability to work with children.

This helps to keep children safe. • Partnerships with parents are good. Parents access information about their children's learning on an electronic system and staff offer suggestions about how they can continue to support their children's learning at home.

• Staff complete risk assessments of the environment indoors and outdoors prior to children accessing these areas. Identified hazard...s are removed to help promote children's safety. • Children arrive happy and are keen to join the good range of activities offered.

They make good progress in their learning and development. Children demonstrate that they feel safe and are emotionally secure. • Staff encourage children to develop the use of their senses.

They model smelling and feeling different herbs in the garden, and learn about which herbs go with certain foods. • The manager evaluates the provision well. She gathers parents' views and takes on board their comments.

Recent changes to the outdoor environment provide children with more opportunities to develop their literacy and mathematical skills. It is not yet outstanding because: • Staff do not always offer the best possible support for the youngest children who speak English as an additional language to develop their communication with others. • At times, staff do not make the most of all opportunities to maintain older children's attention and to extend and build on their learning even more.