Happy Smiles

Activities: Children enjoy investigating what happens when they drop ice cubes into warm and cold water.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children frequently use their early literacy skills, listening carefully to stories and looking independently at the impressive range of books.

Communication: There is strong partnership working and frequent two-way exchanges of information between staff and parents.

Programs and Resources: Staff provide highly effective support for children who have special educational needs and/or disabilities.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: The manager and her well-qualified staff are committed and enthusiastic.

Safeguarding Training: Arrangements for safeguarding are effective, staff have a robust understanding of the signs and symptoms of abuse.

Play and Learning Integration: Children have access to a secure open space where they can run freely and safely. They learn how to take appropriate risks, such as when they balance on crates or climb a ramp.

Transition to Primary School: Children gain the necessary skills to help to prepare them for their future learning, including the eventual move on to school.

Child Safety Management: The manager reviews detailed risk assessments regularly, to identify and minimise risks. This helps to keep children safe from harm.

Children's Safety and Security: Staff tailor settling-in arrangements meticulously to help children to settle exceptionally well from the start.

Teaching Personal Safety: Children learn about keeping themselves healthy and eating a nutritious diet. Excellent hygiene routines are followed.

Happiness and Settling: All children know their key person well and form extremely strong attachments to them. This helps children to develop superb levels of self-esteem.

Nutritional Menu: Children learn about keeping themselves healthy and eating a nutritious diet.