After Nappies And Paddies

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The managers and staff reflect on and evaluate their practice and seek relevant professional development opportunities to help them to continuously improve. For example, staff attend training courses on topics linked to where they identify gaps in any of their key children's development.

This impacts positively on children's outcomes for learning. • Staff support children who speak English as an additional language well. They gain children's attention, speak clearly and use gestures to help children to make their own choices.

• Children make good progress at this small, friendly setting. Staff plan activities that are of interest to children and ...entice them to explore. For example, children thoroughly enjoy making potions using flowers, liquids and colours.

Children use scissors, pipettes and screw lids off small bottles very well. This helps to promote their dexterity. • Parents speak highly of the staff.

They state their children feel safe and secure and receive a good education that prepares them well for starting school. • Staff do not always gain the best possible information from parents about what children can already do when they begin to attend to help them to precisely identify their starting points in learning. • Staff are not always successful in gaining information from all parents about how children are learning and developing at home.

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