Cold Ash Pre School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is outstanding • The manager is a highly qualified, enthusiastic and inspirational teacher. She is extremely successful at sharing her passion for children's learning with parents, staff and committee members.

Everyone understands why they do things and what children are learning. Children practise and master new skills rapidly. • The parent committee has made a massive contribution to improvements at the preschool.

This helps staff to deliver new ways of inspiring children to even higher levels of curiosity, investigation and physical challenge. Fulfilled, exhausted and often slightly muddy children return home having spent most of the day adventuring out...doors. • Staff are swift to share their professional observations, assessments and ideas for promoting children's next steps in learning with parents and carers.

The manager monitors the progress of individual children, different groups of children and staff practice to check that every child is achieving their potential. • Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities promptly receive the additional help they need. Their parents praise staff for the outstanding transformation they have made to their children's social skills, speech, learning and quality of family life.

• Children make wise decisions about choosing healthy snacks and sitting somewhere calm and undisturbed to enjoy them. Highly responsive staff make excellent use of this time to focus on children's individual welfare and well-being. • Children explore interests as broad as 'what happens in Greenland?' and 'dragons eating eggs for breakfast, leaves for dinner and ducks for tea'.

They know how to research the unknown and develop a story. Children quickly develop a broad vocabulary, the art of conversation and the confidence to share their opinions. They are extremely well prepared for school socially, emotionally and academically.