Purple Willows Nuxley Village

Activities: Staff plan a broad and challenging curriculum which helps all children to achieve.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children become increasingly independent and develop their personal care skills well.

Communication: Parents say their children love attending and make good progress. They appreciate that staff keep them well informed about their children's time at nursery.

Community Building: Manager and staff encourage parents to contribute to children's learning experiences, e.g., stay-and-play sessions and presenting a puppet show.

Programs and Resources: 'Bucket time' sessions help children to listen, learn new words and begin to focus for extended periods.

Staff Training: Staff also work closely with outside professionals to utilize their expertise and enable all children to achieve their full potential.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: All children are settled and have strong attachments with staff. Children receive cuddles, reassurance, and attention to feel safe and secure.

Safeguarding Training: The manager and staff understand their safeguarding roles and responsibilities.

Play and Learning Integration: Staff ensure that children play outdoors and encourage children to be active through activities such as a 'bear hunt'.

Transition to Primary School: They promote children's self-confidence and help them develop the skills needed for later learning and starting school.

Diversity Management: Children have opportunities to hear and use their home languages, e.g., staff ask parents to translate stories during group circle times.

Child Safety Management: Staff identify and minimize potential risks, indoors and outdoors, to provide a safe and secure learning environment.

Children's Safety and Security: Children receive the cuddles, reassurance, and attention they need to feel safe and secure.

Happiness and Settling: Children arrive full of smiles and confidently separate from their parents and venture off to play.