Growing Places @ Cowplain

Activities: Staff plan an exceptional learning environment. Children create complicated models with wooden blocks and find ways to make their ideas work.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children demonstrate great concentration and staff skilfully ask questions, encouraging them to think and solve problems.

Communication: Parents are exceptionally complimentary about the warm, calm, caring family atmosphere the staff provide and the progress they see their children make. Staff provide helpful information for parents face-to-face and through an informative website.

Programs and Resources: The nursery addresses gaps in learning and ensures every child makes excellent progress from their starting points.

Staff Training: Staff are very well supported to undertake training opportunities and continue to develop their knowledge, skills and interests.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: The enthusiastic management and staff team provide a holistic family approach to high-quality learning experiences in a welcoming, safe and secure environment. Staff are well informed and knowledgeable educators.

Safeguarding Training: Staff know what action they must take if they are concerned about the welfare of a child. Recruitment and suitability procedures for new staff are thorough.

Play and Learning Integration: Children explore a multitude of resources that can be used in many different ways. They show increasing hand-to-eye coordination as they use scissors to cut the paper and fold and stick it around parcels.

Transition to Primary School: Children form highly positive attachments and show great motivation.

Child Safety Management: Staff are vigilant to potential risks and take appropriate action to promote children's safety at all times.

Children's Safety and Security: Children form secure emotional attachments with staff. They know the standard of behavior expected of them and are kind and considerate to others.

Teaching Personal Safety: Staff are respectful in their interactions with children. For example, they always ask if they can change a child's nappy or wipe their nose.

Happiness and Settling: Children recall their activities and share ideas and interests.

Nutritional Menu: A healthy lifestyle is actively encouraged through high-quality meals and a strong focus on physical activity.