Sycamore House Day Nursery

Activities: All children are confident and move around their rooms selecting the toys they want to play with. They settle quickly and busy themselves as they build tracks and bridges, cook pretend meals in the play kitchen or explore books with each other and staff.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Pre-school children recognise shapes, colours and numbers. They confidently identify bigger or smaller items and use mathematical language in their play.

Communication: Staff share children's next steps with parents via electronic communications systems. These include photographs of what their children are doing while at the nursery.

Programs and Resources: Additional support is sought for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those who speak English as an additional language.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Parents comment that 'staff are very supportive'.

Safeguarding Training: The management team and staff have a good understanding of their responsibilities to safeguard children.

Play and Learning Integration: Children make good progress over time.

Transition to Primary School: Toddlers demonstrate good hand-to-eye coordination as they learn to feed themselves, while older children serve meals and pour their own drinks. Children make good progress over time.

Child Safety Management: The security of the nursery is taken seriously, and visitors are checked before entry. Risk assessments and daily checks are in place and adhered to.

Children's Safety and Security: Children feel safe & secure in the nursery.

Happiness and Settling: Children show great pleasure as they greet their friends on arrival, while babies reach their arms out and are rewarded with genuinely caring hugs from staff.