Aspiring Minds Day Care

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • The new management and staff team work effectively together and have successfully addressed all the actions from the previous inspection. They monitor children's progress carefully to ensure any gaps between different groups close quickly.

They set clear priorities to continually improve the quality of the nursery. • The quality of teaching is good and staff make learning enjoyable for children. Staff support children's mathematical skills well.

They skilfully help pre-school children to count confidently and learn to represent numbers using their fingers. • Children quickly develop strong bonds with staff, who are kind and responsive to their nee...ds. Children are happy, settled and enjoy their time in the nursery.

• The qualified staff are committed to professional development. Recent training has helped staff to make better use of their observations of children's learning to inform the new planning. It is not yet outstanding because: • Sometimes, activities are overcrowded and too busy.

Staff do not always consider the abilities of the children present, so that all children benefit from the best teaching and learning opportunities during activities. • The new manager has not yet fully embedded sharply focused evaluations of the quality of teaching to move staff's practice forward and support all children's progress even further. • Opportunities for gaining ongoing information from parents about children's interests at home have not yet been sharpened.

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