Avon Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good Babies and children settle quickly and enjoy being in the inviting nursery surroundings. They grow in confidence and are keen to try new things, responding to the kind, attentive manager and the encouragement and praise they receive from all staff. Staff successfully adapt their teaching to cater for children's differing abilities.

Staff often give children individual support or teach them in small groups. These strategies help children to be confident to take part and to cooperate with others. Children show increasing understanding, communicating their ideas well and showing an impressive ability to concentrate for long periods.

Staff positively e...ncourage children to celebrate their own and other children's backgrounds. They help children to recognise and tolerate the needs of children who are younger or less able. Children see how their families' contributions are valued by nursery staff when their parents and carers join in sessions or provide resources for activities and discussions.

Effective staff recruitment, performance management and professional development procedures ensure the manager and staff are well qualified and knowledgeable. They work well together to ensure the quality of teaching and care is consistently good. The manager and staff offer children fun sessions with a successful mix of planned and free-choice activities.

As a result, children make good progress. It is not yet outstanding because: Staff do not always identify precise and ambitious targets for children's future learning or explain these next steps in learning clearly to parents, so that progress is accelerated. Children are not provided with enough challenge in their active play to promote outstanding progress in their physical development.

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