The Village Nursery Ltd

Activities: Children take part in a range of interesting and educational outings. This includes trips to the park, the library, the post office and the local allotment and building site.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Regular and precise assessments of children's individual development ensure any gaps in learning are picked up on quickly, necessary intervention is put in place and particularly able children are highly challenged in their learning.

Communication: Staff have worked very hard to include parents in all aspects of their child's care and learning right from the start.

Community Building: Staff work closely with other settings and outside agencies involved in children's care, learning and development. This ensures continuity of learning, and where intervention is necessary, specialist help is swiftly secured to meet each individual child's requirements.

Programs and Resources: Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities and children who are gifted and talented are provided for particularly well and make excellent progress.

Staff Training: Leaders place the highest priority on the professional development of staff. All staff have been enabled to participate in a wide range of quality training and support.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: The manager's enthusiasm and approachable leadership style have helped her build an extremely strong and highly skilled staff team.

Safeguarding Training: Staff have completed extensive training in this area, so they have a thorough understanding of how to keep children safe.

Play and Learning Integration: Babies delight as they use their senses to explore different types of fruit in the water tray. Toddlers make their own creations with play dough, and pre-school children proudly display their works of art in their own designated space on the wall.

Transition to Primary School: Children make outstanding progress from their starting points. Strong links with key persons help them to settle quickly. Children socialise well and learn life skills, such as independence, turn taking and sharing. They are being very well prepared for the next stage in their learning and their eventual move on to school.

Child Safety Management: Staff have completed extensive training in this area, so they have a thorough understanding of how to keep children safe.

Children's Safety and Security: Consequently, children are healthy, feel safe and secure and are provided with an environment in which they thrive.

Happiness and Settling: Strong links with key persons help them to settle quickly.

Nutritional Menu: Children also learn how to lead a healthy lifestyle by eating a range of healthy, home-cooked food, exercising regularly, taking regular rests and drinking fresh water daily.