Little Explorers Of Cookridge

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • Children form positive relationships with their key person.

This helps to ensure that children's individual care and emotional needs are effectively met. • Parents are very complimentary about the pre-school. They are kept well informed about their children's activities, achievements and welfare.

• Staff effectively work together to identify areas for development. For example, they attend staff meetings and make plans to help them make positive improvements. • Staff make good use of questions to help promote children's thinking skills.

They engage children in discussions which help to support their communication and language development. ...• Staff have developed effective partnerships with all other settings that children attend and local schools. This helps raise standards of care and learning, and to ensure that children's move on to school is smooth.

It is not yet outstanding because: • There is some inconsistency in targets set for individual children's future learning, which means children do not always make the best possible progress. • Although staff gather a good amount of information from parents of babies and toddlers, they do not always gather sufficient detailed information from parents of older children on entry. • Occasionally, staff do not always consider how children of different ages can be fully involved when taking part in planned activities together.