Mumbles Day Nursery in Stone

Ofsted rating for Mumbles Day Nursery

Last inspected 5 October 2022

What it's like to attend

• Children enjoy their time at this nursery and benefit from good attachments with staff who listen to their needs and respect their decisions.
• The staff support children's emotional development well, which promotes good levels of behaviour.
• Children access a wide range of resources with confidence, including sensory opportunities for babies and toddlers, and independent exploration for pre-school children.
• Pre-school children learn about healthy lifestyles through the 'farm to fork' initiative, growing vegetables for snacks and meals.
• Leaders and managers have clear intentions for their ambitious curriculum, building on a spiral model from one room to the next.
• Managers understand the importance of communication and language development, with robust systems to spot and support delayed development.
• Children across the nursery enjoy sharing stories, developing communication, language and literacy skills.
• The setting has strong links with the local community centre, offering children visits to local experiences via the community bus.
• Managers and leaders prioritise the team, supporting professional development and staff well-being through regular supervisions.
• Managers are very reflective, identifying strengths and weaknesses to continually monitor teaching and learning.
• The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with managers prioritising safeguarding, following safe recruitment, and ensuring staff undertake regular training and understand their responsibilities to protect children from harm.

• 1Support staff to provide babies with a consistently language-rich environment that offers plenty of back-and-forth verbal interactions to fully extend their learning.
• 2Communicate information about children's development with parents more clearly and concisely so that they can better support and extend their children's learning at home.
• 3Implement the plans to review the organisation for transitions between the baby and toddler room so that children who are ready developmentally to move on can do so promptly.