Glaisdale Day Nursery

Activities: Children are provided with meaningful challenges to promote their early reading and writing abilities.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children make good progress in relation to their starting points.

Communication: Staff work closely with parents to obtain information relating to children's interests when they start. They are proactive in encouraging parents' involvement in children's ongoing learning and update them regularly of children's progress.

Programs and Resources: Staff observe children closely to identify gaps in their development. They are swift to liaise with parents and relevant professionals to ensure children receive additional support.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: The management team and staff create a welcoming and homely environment.

Safeguarding Training: Staff are knowledgeable, vigilant and confident in their ability to respond to any concerns they may have about a child's welfare.

Play and Learning Integration: Children thoroughly enjoy using their imagination and being creative. They show great physical skill as they create bird feeders by threading cereal onto pipe cleaners.

Transition to Primary School: Children grow in independence and take responsibility for managing aspects of their own play and tasks.

Child Safety Management: Robust risk assessments help to make sure that all areas of the nursery are safe and secure.

Children's Safety and Security: Children feel safe & secure in a nursery.

Teaching Personal Safety: Staff have a good understanding of child protection issues.

Happiness and Settling: Children are safe, happy and motivated to learn.