St Mary's Nursery Group

Activities: Staff provide an innovative range of opportunities to engage children in a rich range of activities to help them learn about the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children express delight and wonder during activities. Staff swiftly identify any gaps in children's learning and provide excellent interventions and support to close these gaps rapidly.

Communication: Staff provide tailored guidance and information to parents about the precise ways they can support their children to make significant gains in their learning.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Highly effective leadership, excellent partnerships with parents and a mutual pursuit for excellence shared by the whole staff team.

Safeguarding Training: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. Staff are vigilant about children's safety and have an excellent understanding of child protection issues.

Play and Learning Integration: Staff rigorously monitor children's progress to help them make significant progress from their starting points.

Transition to Primary School: Staff place a high priority on getting children ready for school and there are excellent systems in place to help support transition when children move on to school.

Child Safety Management: Staff are vigilant about children's safety and have an excellent understanding of child protection issues.

Children's Safety and Security: Children show high levels of interest and self-control during activities, and confidence in social situations. Children feel safe and secure.

Happiness and Settling: Children express delight and wonder during activities. Children's behaviour is exemplary and they thoroughly enjoy the routine.

Nutritional Menu: The weekly gardening club is used extremely well by staff... how to keep their children safe.