Sutton nursery makes 'Good' start to 2025 with Ofsted

New Woods Childcare on Barker Avenue was rated ‘Good’ for quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management and overall effectiveness at previous inspection, leading to the overall ‘Good’ rating.

In their report, inspectors said: “Children show very positive relationships with staff.

"Staff show kindness towards children and children observe this, and in turn, show kindness to their friends.

"Children are supported to understand when the daily routine changes to help promote their emotional well-being.

"Children are supported to develop their imagination, such as exploring how to use toys and equipment in their play.

"Staff share information with parents about activities children enjoy, their care routines and how staff support their child's learning.

"This helps to keep parents informed about their child's day and development.

"Parents report that since their children have started, they are saying more words and learning to be sociable with others.

“Staff work with other professionals to set targets to support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and share information with teachers at schools that children will move to, helping them to understand children's abilities and individual needs from the start.

"Staff discuss rules and boundaries with children to help them understand what is expected of them.

"Children are encouraged to be independent and children are keen for staff to engage in their self-chosen play.

"However, during some planned activities, staff do not implement the intent of activities to fully help children to build on their learning.

"Staff have sensitive relationships with children and this contributes to supporting children's communication skills and developing close bonds with staff.

"Overall, the curriculum to develop children's communication and language skills supports children well.

"However, children who speak English as an additional language are not supported as well.

"Staff say that they feel very supported by the management team and have opportunities to build on their professional development.”

On what the setting needs to do to improve, inspectors said management needed to ‘support staff to implement the intent of planned activities to help build on children's learning’ and ‘strengthen staff's interactions with children who speak English as an additional language to support their understanding and language development.”