Dimples Southbank

Activities: Staff greet children warmly and sensitively. Children enter the setting happily and are excited to take part in activities.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children enjoy songs and rhymes, and choose from a good range of reading materials. They develop fine-motor skills, for example when moulding dough and pouring jugs of cereal.

Communication: They communicate well with parents about children's learning and development through an online system and daily discussions.

Community Building: Parents say the setting is firmly established as part of the wider community. This helps children to access experiences that promote their understanding of others.

Programs and Resources: Staff work closely with professionals involved in children's care, including those children with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those who are learning English as an additional language.

Staff Training: Leaders use funding to buy appropriate equipment and train staff.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Staff greet children warmly and sensitively. Staff ensure there are strong bonds with children in their care.

Safeguarding Training: Leaders support all staff effectively to help keep children safe. Staff use their good training opportunities to maintain their secure understanding of safeguarding.

Play and Learning Integration: Babies practise their skills ready for crawling, during tummy time. They try hard to move forwards when staff place a favourite toy just out of reach.

Transition to Primary School: All children are fully included and prepared for their future learning.

Diversity Management: Staff work closely with professionals involved in children's care, including those children with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those who are learning English as an additional language.

Child Safety Management: Staff keep the environment safe and secure for babies and children.

Children's Safety and Security: All children feel secure, valued and welcome.

Teaching Personal Safety: Staff talk to young children about their feelings to help children to regulate their own behaviour from an early age.

Happiness and Settling: Children enter the setting happily and are excited to take part in activities. Staff greet children warmly and sensitively.

Nutritional Menu: They learn to use toothbrushes, feed themselves nutritional meals and snacks using cutlery, and help with tasks such as putting away equipment.