Blythwood Community Nursery

Activities: Children have fun during sports and exercise sessions delivered by specialist teachers.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children are well supported in their learning and make good progress.

Communication: Parents feel well informed about what their children enjoy and learn at the nursery.

Community Building: Parents comment that staff are friendly and approachable.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Parents say that their children have grown in confidence and speak more fluently since starting the nursery.

Safeguarding Training: Staff receive regular training to update their knowledge of a range of safeguarding issues.

Play and Learning Integration: Children develop positive attitudes towards their learning. They are highly motivated to explore.

Transition to Primary School: Children acquire key skills to support the next stages in their learning and prepare them for starting school.

Diversity Management: Many of the children attending speak English as an additional language. The manager and staff support them to use their home languages in the setting.

Child Safety Management: Staff make good use of risk assessments, to ensure that the nursery environment is safe for children.

Children's Safety and Security: Children are happy and well settled in this friendly and welcoming nursery.

Happiness and Settling: Children develop affectionate relationships with staff and show that they feel very safe and at ease in their care.