Chipmonks Day Nursery Hellifield

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children are safe and secure and they settle into the environment. They confidently choose what they want to do. Children relish the extensive play and learning opportunities.

Communication: Staff work closely with parents when children first start, to get to know children and support their individual needs.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Staff give babies encouragement as they say 'well done' and 'you can do it'. This helps to give babies the determination to keep on trying.

Safeguarding Training: The management team has robust recruitment and vetting procedures in place to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children.

Play and Learning Integration: Children willingly accept other children who enter their play. They freely share resources and discuss what is happening.

Transition to Primary School: Staff form effective partnerships with the local primary school and other schools further afield where children will be attending.

Child Safety Management: Staff are vigilant about safety and put in place a range of procedures to help keep children safe.

Children's Safety and Security: The management team and staff are knowledgeable about child protection issues. They have a secure understanding of the correct procedures to follow if they have concerns about a child.

Happiness and Settling: Children are busy, full of excitement and have the freedom to explore. They enthusiastically practise a range of movements to climb to the top of a small incline.