Little Chatterpillars Pre School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The dedicated and strong leadership team are united in their vision for achieving the very best of outcomes for all children. Precise action plans and rigorous monitoring by the manager have been instrumental in securing rapid improvements since the last Ofsted inspection. • The high expectations and aspirations of staff underpin the good-quality teaching and learning across the setting.

Staff have a robust understanding of child development and nurture children's enthusiasm for learning very well. Children make good progress and leave the setting with a good skill base in readiness for their move on to school. • Staff provide children with exciting oppor...tunities to express their individuality and creativity.

Children relish opportunities to complete self-portraits and excitedly sing and dance while staff play guitars. • Mathematics is taught very well across the setting. Staff use expert teaching techniques to introduce early number, shape and space acquisition.

Children are competent mathematicians who articulately discuss capacity, estimation and quantity. • Community cohesion is a golden thread that permeates throughout this vibrant and good-quality setting. Staff have worked relentlessly to develop secure partnerships with other settings, schools and the local authority.

Children are proud of the diverse community which they belong to and articulately discuss different family units. • The management team do not rigorously evaluate the full impact that early years pupil premium has on outcomes for children. • Staff do not gather precise information about what children already know and can do, to identify accurate starting points in their learning.