Axstane House Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff establish positive partnerships with parents and encourage them to be fully informed and involved in their children's learning, such as adding to their children's progress records regularly. • Staff get to know individual children and their personalities well.

Children have a good sense of belonging and positive levels of well-being and self-worth. • The manager and staff effectively evaluate their practice together. They hold daily meetings to discuss how well they motivated children to learn.

They use their findings to make challenging targets and develop their future performance. • Children have good opportunities to develop their early ...writing skills to support their future learning. For example, they confidently write their name and simple words.

• All children gain a good understanding of the importance of healthy lifestyles. For instance, they discuss the importance of washing away germs before mealtimes. • Staff support all children to make good progress, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities.

For example, they liaise closely with outside agencies, such as speech therapists, to share helpful and consistent ideas and strategies. • Staff miss some opportunities to extend children's communication and language skills even further so they have the time and opportunity to answer questions. • Staff miss opportunities for children to be independent and complete their own tasks, to help extend their skills to support their future learning even further.

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