Hillside Playcare

Activities: Children count dough balls, identify numerals, predict quantities.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Staff encourage children to persevere to complete tasks and offer praise when they achieve them.

Communication: Staff regularly share information about children's development and provide information to help parents support and extend children's learning.

Community Building: Parents particularly value the events the provider arranges so that they and other family members can visit the nursery.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Parents are full of praise for the nursery, comment that staff are always happy, supportive and friendly.

Safeguarding Training: All staff attend regular training and have a thorough understanding of the possible signs that may indicate a child is at risk of harm.

Child Safety Management: The provider has a rigorous recruitment procedure and conducts ongoing suitability checks to ensure suitability of all those working with children.

Happiness and Settling: Children develop positive relationships with the staff, who know them well. This helps children to feel safe and secure.