Foresters Den Nursery

Activities: Children are keen to explore the resources and concentrate well.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Staff support children's communication skills particularly well, such as while encouraging them to sing rhymes, to help support their language and sentence formation.

Communication: Staff form effective partnerships with parents. They regularly share information with parents about children's development.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Children are happy, confident and settle into the nursery well. Staff are friendly and approachable and build strong bonds with children.

Safeguarding Training: The manager understands her responsibility to protect children and implements effective policies and procedures to support their welfare. She deploys staff well to ensure ratios requirements are effectively met and children are well supervised and safe.

Play and Learning Integration: Children play confidently in a safe, interesting environment that helps to support all areas of learning.

Transition to Primary School: All children make good progress from their starting points and develop skills that support their next stage of learning, including for school. Older children communicate clearly and listen attentively.

Child Safety Management: Staff regularly assess risks in all areas that children use to identify and remove any hazards. Children behave well. The staff share their expectations with them to help them learn what is and is not acceptable.

Children's Safety and Security: Children are happy, confident and settle into the nursery well. Staff are friendly and approachable and build strong bonds with children. They support children's emotional needs and well-being effectively.

Teaching Personal Safety: For example, they remind children to say please and thank you and help them learn to be polite.

Happiness and Settling: Children are happy, confident and settle into the nursery well.

Nutritional Menu: Children eat nutritious foods, are active and enjoy using equipment.