Little Professors Nursery

Philosophy: Children are highly enthusiastic learners, who very much enjoy coming to nursery. Children's interests and love for learning are at the heart of every decision that staff make.

Forest School Sessions: Children actively enjoy taking part in forest school activities. They make a pretend fire, then move onto making a real fire and toasting marshmallows.

Activities: Children thoroughly enjoy exploring the ambitious curriculum in the carefully planned environment. They make independent choices from highly motivating activities that capture their curiosity for learning.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: All children make excellent progress from their starting points. Children talk about their learning using rich vocabulary and develop secure relationships with staff.

Communication: Parents are provided with up-to-date information via an app, and a homework book offers activity ideas for parents to share with children at home.

Community Building: Excellent partnership with parents is in place. Parents speak highly of the nursery and cannot praise the staff enough.

Programs and Resources: This particularly supports those children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). All children make excellent progress from their starting points.

Staff Training: All staff have accessed a range of training opportunities to enhance their professional development and teaching skills.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: They are extremely happy and demonstrate high levels of emotional security, confidence and self-esteem. Staff support children in developing independence through well-established daily routines.

Safeguarding Training: Staff attend safeguarding training. They can identify a cause for concern and know the action to take to protect children.

Play and Learning Integration: Children thoroughly enjoy their learning and show a keenness to explore and discover. They are excited to listen and join in with stories.

Diversity Management: Parents have access to a literacy app, provided by the nursery, which allows books to be read or spoken at home in any language.

Child Safety Management: The premises are safe and secure. Managers implement safer recruitment processes and staff are suitable and inducted effectively. Ratios are maintained and children are supervised well.

Children's Safety and Security: Staff attend safeguarding training. They can identify a cause for concern and know the action to take to protect children.

Teaching Personal Safety: For example, they teach them to walk inside and not run.

Happiness and Settling: They are completely involved in their play and learning, and are constantly smiling and laughing together.