Marching into Spring!

Dear Parents,

We hope this finds you all well and egg-cited for Easter! This is one of our favourite times of year at the Riverside Day Nursery, we simply love watching the children craft gifts for their families and chattering about the forthcoming holiday.

As you’re probably aware by now it has been a very exciting month at the nursery. Following our Ofsted inspection, we were delighted to receive our new rating of…drum roll please… ‘OUTSTANDING’!

The perfect word to sum up our incredible team. This rating would not have been possible without the dedication and commitment of all of our staff. To commend their achievement and by way of thanks, the team received vouchers to treat themselves. We also celebrated with dinner and some bubbles of course! We honestly could not be prouder.

Equally a huge ‘THANK YOU’ to all the lovely parents who supported us through the inspection process, and who spoke with the inspector to relay their positive view of our nursery and staff.

Ofsted’s report highlighted many positive points about the nursery, including:

• Children behave exceptionally well and are kind to one another.
• Staff monitor children’s development and plan precisely to ensure all children make excellent progress from their starting points.
• The quality of teaching is highly impressive, the new manager has embedded strategies to help staff to raise the quality of their interactions with children.
• Staff know their key children extremely well. They embrace every opportunity to challenge children’s thinking and teach them new skills.
• Children’s physical well-being is supported exceedingly well. Staff provide challenging outdoor learning experiences which all children thoroughly enjoy.

You can see a full copy of the report here: www.reports.ofsted.gov.uk – URN EY485275.

We hope you have a good month and look forward to seeing you at our upcoming events.

Best wishes,

The Riverside Day Nursery Team