Active Learning Southgate Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good Staff highly value each child and celebrate their achievements, large and small. Children are confident, self-motivated and keen learners. ? ?Staff teach children how to be healthy, through activities and daily routines.

For instance, as children sit for meals, staff discuss the nutritional value of milk and water. Children say, 'Milk makes you strong and makes us strong', which shows they have a strong understanding of nutrition. Self-evaluation is effective.

The senior management team monitors children's progress effectively and makes good use of this information to plan for improvements, such as strengthening the programme for mathematics. Child...ren make good progress. Staff carry out regular, good-quality assessments of children, which they use effectively to plan children's next steps for learning.

This results in suitably challenging activities that cover all areas of learning and, overall, meet children's needs well. ? It is not yet outstanding because: Staff do not make the best use of opportunities to encourage parents to share detailed information about what languages children speak at home, to support them to settle in. Overall, staff support children's literacy well, but opportunities for older children who choose to spend a lot of time outdoors to practise early reading and writing are limited.

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