Nursery World - Business Development - Why tracking progress pays

One setting has won plaudits for managing staff and tracking child
development. Hannah Crown reports.

Children 1st at Grantham recently maintained its 'outstanding' ranking from 2011, winning particular praise for its management methods, 'outstanding partnerships with parents' and the tracking of children's development.

Manager Tracey Needham said, 'The inspector saw that some children come in with really low scores and by the time they have been through our toddler room many are then where they should be.

'We also talk with the parents and find out what they are doing at home and what we need to work on at nursery. For the younger ones: are they saying any initial sounds for words? For the older ones it can be: how many words are they saying, or are they reading yet? Then we pick up if we need to do speech and language training.

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