Seahorse Nursery (Princes Way)

Activities: Children take part in mindfulness activities to help them understand and manage their feelings and emotions.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Staff regularly introduce new words to children's extensive range of vocabulary. Children learn rhyme and patterns to language as they join in singing activities. Older children recall what they know and think of new ideas as staff use open-ended questions.

Communication: Parents speak extremely positively of the setting and recommend it to their friends. They speak of the outstanding progress their children have made since starting. Parents are involved in the continual improvements for the setting and share their views via a parent representative.

Programs and Resources: The setting has established exceptionally strong partnerships with other agencies and professionals. This has helped them to support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities superbly.

Staff Training: Staff regularly liaise with professionals to seek advice and have attended external appointments with parents where necessary, to review children's progress and set them challenging targets.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: The staff are highly skilled at supporting children to build an understanding of families, communities and diversity.

Safeguarding Training: All staff receive regular training to ensure that their knowledge is up to date.

Play and Learning Integration: Children demonstrate high levels of concentration when exploring new ideas, using a range of resources.

Transition to Primary School: This is fully embedded across the setting and ensures that children are exceptionally well prepared for their next stage in learning.

Diversity Management: The setting has excellent links with the neighbouring school and uses these to broaden children's understanding of disability.

Child Safety Management: Children play in a very safe and secure environment that is routinely risk assessed.

Children's Safety and Security: Children of all ages feel safe and secure.

Happiness and Settling: Parents speak of the support and advice staff have given them, for example around sleep routines.