Alice’s Wonderland Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good Staff offer a welcoming and inclusive environment where children play and learn happily. Children make friends and settle well into daily routines.

They confidently ask for help when needed. Children's behaviour is good. Staff have developed a good knowledge of how children learn and develop through play.

Children make good progress in relation to their individual starting points and capabilities. They are well prepared for the next stages in their learning and development, including starting school. Children have fabulous opportunities to learn about other people and their communities.

For example, they engage very well in festivals and o...ther experiences that help them learn about their own and others' identity, culture and lifestyles. Managers support staff well. They monitor and evaluate their practice and have improved it since the last inspection.

In addition, they regularly assess each child's progress individually and in groups and checks at the age of two spot any needing extra help and provide well-tailored support to help narrow gaps. It is not yet outstanding because: Occasionally, some staff do not provide enough challenges to fully extend children's mathematical skills and to solve problems unaided. Systems to encourage all parents to contribute to their children's next steps in learning are not always highly successful.