Little Laura's Nursery

Forest School Sessions: For example, they know to look for insects under a log as they had learned this during their forest school experiences.

Philosophy: Leaders have an extremely clear and ambitious vision for what they want children to learn and experience and the progress they want them to make.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: All children make excellent progress from their starting points, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities.

Activities: Children are immediately engrossed in the excellent range of different activities.

Communication: Staff readily share children's learning with their parents, so they can extend this learning at home.

Community Building: Staff encourage parents to become fully involved in the nursery community. For example, staff ran a forest school session for fathers.

Programs and Resources: The special educational needs coordinator is extremely knowledgeable and knows the children very well. They welcome other professionals into the setting, such as speech therapists, to devise strategies and targets.

Staff Training: Staff promptly identify children's needs and support them exceptionally well.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Children arrive and settle very quickly due to the extremely strong and warm bonds they have with the staff team.

Safeguarding Training: Safeguarding is threaded through induction and ongoing staff training very successfully.

Play and Learning Integration: Children show incredibly high levels of confidence and independence. They draw on previous learning and use this independently.

Transition to Primary School: Staff prepare children very well for school and share this with parents via a school readiness meeting. Children are excited about moving to school and are ready for the next stage of their education.

Diversity Management: Staff skilfully tailor activities to meet the differing ages and needs of the children.

Child Safety Management: Staff are deployed extremely effectively and they keep children under close supervision.

Teaching Personal Safety: Children learn about how to keep themselves and others safe. For example, they move very carefully near to a baby learning to walk.

Happiness and Settling: Children arrive and settle very quickly due to the extremely strong and warm bonds they have with the staff team.