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Activities: The curriculum they follow is multi-layered, where they explore different aspects of learning numerous times to help them to master what they need to know.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children play with dough, where their squeezing, shaping and rolling of the dough strengthens the small muscles in their hands and fingers.

Communication: Parents compliment the staff and the care that their children receive at the nursery. They talk about the good range of ways staff communicate with them.

Community Building: There are parents' evenings, where they can talk about their child's progress in depth with their key person.

Programs and Resources: Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities make excellent progress in the staff's nurturing care.

Staff Training: Staff are all very knowledgeable about their key children's home lives, which enables them to work effectively with parents and to plan for their learning.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Staff report how happy they are in their work. They feel highly valued by the provider, who appreciates the benefit of encouraging staff's training and personal development.

Safeguarding Training: All staff understand their responsibilities in relation to safeguarding children. Each has had training so they are clear about the signs and symptoms that might indicate children are at risk of harm.

Play and Learning Integration: In the garden, they explore cause and effect with wonder and curiosity.

Transition to Primary School: These preparations for learning to write help children to gain the necessary skills before they start to explore making marks on paper.

Child Safety Management: This, combined with excellent supervision of children and effective risk assessments, creates a safe environment for children.

Children's Safety and Security: Children behave extremely well and demonstrate an insatiable appetite for learning.

Happiness and Settling: Children are confident and expressive talkers who share their ideas and initiate conversations with others.

Nutritional Menu: Staff manage mealtimes safely. Children gain independence as they prepare and eat their lunch.