Little Starz Day Nursery

Ofsted rating for Little Starz Day Nursery

Last inspected 1 September 2022

What it's like to attend

• The nursery is very welcoming. It is clean and bright with interesting displays. It is well organised, so children can move about freely and feel safe and secure.
• Children have close bonds with their key persons. They benefit from sharing well-planned activities, which give them opportunities to learn across a broad and balanced curriculum.
• Staff have high expectations and focus particularly on helping children with their social and language development. Children make good progress and are active learners.
• Children are very well behaved. They keep busy and play happily together, sharing ideas, and are eager to learn new things. They listen to and follow instructions well.
• Managers constantly seek to improve the quality of the setting and consult with staff regularly to gather their ideas and aspirations.
• Management uses additional funding effectively by the provision of extra resources and specialist staff to meet children's needs.
• Staff are supported well by managers through regular meetings and have opportunities to pursue their professional development through further training, such as portage work.
• Staff know the children very well and are very sensitive to children's emotional needs. Their kind and nurturing approaches support children in timely and effective ways to enhance the children's well-being.

• 1Develop staff's deeper understanding of the intent of the curriculum so that children gain greater benefit from the learning opportunities during activities.
• 2Provide further opportunities for children to develop their critical thinking and learn to solve problems.