Croston Acorns Nursery and Pre School

Activities: Children share their love of trains or board games and talk about these during group times.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Staff introduce exciting new words and explain their meaning. Children expertly use words such as 'vanished' in their conversations.

Communication: Parents comment on the friendly, warm care that the nursery provides. They are overjoyed with the excellent progress their children make at nursery.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Children excitedly arrive at nursery and are greeted by the vastly experienced and enthusiastic staff team.

Safeguarding Training: Staff attend frequent training, and safeguarding is high on the agenda during supervision sessions and staff meetings.

Play and Learning Integration: Staff skilfully link play experiences to children's knowledge of their favourite stories.

Transition to Primary School: Children develop a strong sense of self as staff find out about their experiences from home.

Child Safety Management: Children play in a very safe and secure environment that is routinely risk assessed.

Children's Safety and Security: The highly effective key-person system helps to ensure that children settle quickly, feel safe, secure and are eager to learn.

Teaching Personal Safety: Staff are meticulous in teaching children to be polite and courteous to each other.

Happiness and Settling: Children's faces light up when they recall and make the connection between a well-known story and their own play.