Castle nurseries at Montagu

Activities: Setting uses funding to provide weekly yoga sessions; children explored with ice and snow, helped to carve pumpkins.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Encourages children to explore with mirrors during care routines; excellent opportunities for them to make marks through large-scale movements.

Communication: Staff work very closely with parents and other professionals to support children's emotional development.

Community Building: Parents speak very highly of the nursery and of the support they receive.

Programs and Resources: Staff help ensure that agreed strategies for individual children are implemented consistently.

Staff Training: All staff are trained in sign language, mental health issues, and know how to resolve conflict.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Children are extremely settled, happy and secure at this very welcoming, friendly and inclusive setting.

Safeguarding Training: Both she and her staff team keep themselves up to date with procedures to keep children safe.

Play and Learning Integration: Nursery gyms are provided in every room, helping children stay strong and healthy.

Transition to Primary School: Joined a new scheme working with specialist teachers to support children’s transition.

Diversity Management: Staff use short, simple sentences and visual prompts to support children who speak English as an additional language.

Child Safety Management: Highly robust policies and routines in place to support safe practice.

Children's Safety and Security: Extremely well-structured daily routines help children feel safe and secure.

Teaching Personal Safety: Staff encourage children to walk safely in line and tidy toys, so they do not trip.

Happiness and Settling: Children are extremely settled, happy and secure.

Nutritional Menu: Healthy lifestyles are promoted throughout the nursery and detailed information on toileting and healthy diets is made readily available to parents.