Little Legs Nursery

Activities: Children show staff what they achieve in play and enjoy singing together outdoors. Older children select their own books and tell visitors their own story using the pictures and vocabulary that they have heard staff use before.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children develop skills towards independence. Staff show younger children how to use a spoon and they start to feed themselves when given their own spoon. Older children are encouraged to pour their own drinks and serve themselves food using large utensils. Children get themselves ready to go outside.

Communication: Parents comment on the setting and how supportive staff are. They speak about the open communication that they receive. Parents get regular updates through an online app that tells them what their children have been doing that day, as well as their children's next steps and how they can support their children at home.

Programs and Resources: Staff use signs, eye contact, gestures and comments to model communication to children, which helps all children including those with special educational needs.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Staff genuinely enjoy the interactions that they have with children and are enthusiastic. This helps children to have positive attitudes to learning, and they engage for prolonged periods of time.

Safeguarding Training: Staff and managers have a strong knowledge of the signs and symptoms of abuse. They attend safeguarding training to support their knowledge of local safeguarding concerns, such as domestic violence and families being radicalised.

Play and Learning Integration: Children's communication is very well promoted. Staff sing to children frequently. They use song, rhyme and alliteration to introduce children to the rhythm of speech and sentence structures.

Transition to Primary School: Children learn how to be healthy and safe, including how to remain safe online. They show their understanding by telling visitors what they need to do if something pops up on their device screens.

Diversity Management: Staff talk to children frequently and ensure that they provide a language-rich environment. They use new vocabulary in play, which children try to copy.

Child Safety Management: Managers have processes in place to ensure that children are safe and their families are well supported.

Children's Safety and Security: Staff and managers ensure that the environment is safe for children. They regularly risk assess the environment and make adaptations where necessary.

Teaching Personal Safety: Children learn how to be healthy and safe, including how to remain safe online. They show their understanding by telling visitors what they need to do if something pops up on their device screens.

Happiness and Settling: Children are happy and confident, and staff continually develop this throughout the day. Staff clearly have positive relationships with children. For example, younger children take items to staff to show them. Children are comforted by their key person when needed.

Nutritional Menu: Children are supported with brushing their teeth after lunch, and they are spoken to about how to keep their teeth healthy. Staff incorporate outdoor safety into the children's day, offering children hats to be safe in the sun, and encouraging children to have a drink of water to help them to cool down.