Doris Venner Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good Children play in a warm, welcoming and engaging environment. Staff provide enjoyable and exciting activities based around children's interests.

They use the space well to motivate and interest children, enabling them to move freely between inside and out. All children make good progress in their learning. Staff observe and accurately assess children's development and progress.

They use this information well to highlight areas where children may need additional support and quickly provide support when needed. Managers and staff work closely with parents and keep them updated about their children's progress. Parents speak extremely highly of the sett...ing, of the progress their children make and of the staff's warm and attentive approach.

Staff prepare children well for the next stage in their learning. For example, they work effectively with local schools and share information about children to support this move. Staff effectively prepare children emotionally for this transition.

The manager has a clear vision for the pre-school and uses effective and accurate self-evaluation, using feedback from parents, staff and children to make improvements. It is not yet outstanding because: At times, staff do not always give children the time to answer their questions, and do not always engage them all as well as they could in the different activities. Although staff share good practice between them to provide interesting activities for children, there are few opportunities for staff to enhance and extend their professional development and teaching skills even further.