Webber Independent School Nursery

Activities: Children enjoy a range of activities that, on the whole, are appropriately matched to their needs and interests. This helps children to make good progress in preparation for their future learning.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children develop positive attitudes to their learning. Older children concentrate and persevere. They pedal ride-along toys, successfully turning the handles and negotiating obstacles.

Communication: Staff have developed new ways to maintain positive communication with parents during the COVID-19 pandemic. For example, parents have had virtual tours as part of induction. They have since attended 'stay-and-play' sessions to help them to become more familiar with the nursery.

Programs and Resources: Staff are prompt to seek advice from external professionals to support children with additional needs. For instance, they refer children to specialists, such as the paediatrician and physiotherapist.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Children benefit from caring and understanding staff, who help them to get used to their new environment.

Safeguarding Training: Staff have a secure knowledge of the signs and symptoms of abuse and the local safeguarding partnership procedures should they have concerns about children's welfare or staff's practice.

Play and Learning Integration: Older children concentrate and persevere. They pedal ride-along toys, successfully turning the handles and negotiating obstacles. Toddlers keep trying as they rotate puzzle pieces to fix them together. Babies enjoy exploring the feeling of foam in their hands.

Transition to Primary School: Leaders place great importance on preparing children for their transition to school. Staff initiate communications with children's receiving teachers and staff at other schools. They share information promptly about children's learning and development.

Diversity Management: The manager ensures that the nursery provision is inclusive. For example, when children start, staff find out about the languages they speak at home.

Child Safety Management: Leaders follow robust recruitment procedures to ensure that staff are suitable. Staff help to keep children safe on outings.

Children's Safety and Security: Children feel safe and secure in the nursery. The youngest children benefit from caring and understanding staff, who help them to get used to their new environment.

Happiness and Settling: Children laugh and giggle as they begin to say 'pop' and clap their hands, propelling foam into the air.