Neston Farm Nursery

Philosophy: The manager has a clear curriculum ethos and knows what skills and knowledge children need to learn as they progress through the nursery and move on to school.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Staff have high expectations of children. Babies are encouraged to feed themselves with cutlery and use crockery for their snacks and meals. Toddlers enjoy the responsibility of helping clear the table in readiness for lunch, and confidently pour water into their glasses. Pre-school children serve their lunches and cut up their fruit for snack.

Communication: Partnerships with parents are positive. They report they are happy with the progress their children are making and say they contribute their ideas about what they want their children to learn.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Children show they feel safe and secure in the welcoming and friendly nursery.

Safeguarding Training: Staff are confident in their knowledge of child protection and safeguarding issues. They know what to do if worried about a child's welfare or the conduct of a colleague.

Play and Learning Integration: Children have plenty of opportunities to learn about the natural world. They care for the animals, collect eggs from the chickens and tend to and harvest their fruit and vegetables.

Child Safety Management: The manager regularly reviews and updates risk assessments, particularly when improving supervision of children in the woods.

Children's Safety and Security: Older children know about the rules they need to follow to keep themselves safe when in the woods. They confidently tell staff they must not 'climb trees higher than an adult' and that they 'must not climb over or under the fence.'

Happiness and Settling: Children show they feel safe and secure in the welcoming and friendly nursery.