Grasshoppers Nursery

Activities: Staff engage in meaningful conversations with children and model language very effectively. Staff read stories and sing with children and do this with confidence and enthusiasm.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Staff help children to develop their large- and small-motor skills from an early age. This helps them to gain the strength and coordination necessary for writing.

Communication: Staff work hard to ensure that parents are kept up to date regarding their child's learning and development.

Programs and Resources: This includes children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, children who speak English as an additional language, and those who receive funding.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: They form close relationships with staff and develop secure friendships with their peers. Children behave very well, especially at mealtimes.

Safeguarding Training: Staff demonstrate a secure understanding of safeguarding. They know what steps to take, should they have concerns about children's welfare or the conduct of a colleague.

Play and Learning Integration: Toddlers enjoy re-enacting favourite stories, and babies further develop their walking skills with staff, while outside in the fresh air.

Transition to Primary School: Children learn the skills they need for future learning, such as independence. Staff are on hand to support younger children put on their outdoor clothing and when reaching pre-school, they can do this successfully for themselves.

Diversity Management: Staff focus their teaching on children's personal social and emotional development and speech and language, to support children's return to the setting following the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, children are confident in social situations and express their needs well.

Child Safety Management: The manager and staff team create a safe and secure environment for children.

Children's Safety and Security: Children demonstrate that they are happy and feel secure at this warm and welcoming nursery.

Teaching Personal Safety: Staff help children learn about keeping themselves safe. For example, children learn about road safety on outings in the community, and indoors, staff remind children to walk and not to run.

Happiness and Settling: All parents recognise the great bonds that their children have to their key people. They feel that their children are flourishing and making good progress.

Nutritional Menu: At mealtimes, children enjoy healthy, nutritious snacks and meals. They make choices and decisions about what they eat, and independently pour their own drinks.