Little Wellingtons Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • The manager meets regularly with staff to reflect on their practice and their key children's progress. She ensures staff attend statutory training and encourages their ongoing professional development. • Staff provide children with good mathematical challenges.

Children are learning to count, name shapes and understand some language for size, such as 'big' and 'small'. • Children enjoy a good range of activities in the garden. They develop early writing skills, climb, balance and jump, and make concoctions in the mud kitchen.

• All children progress well from their different starting points. Staff assess children's individual progress well and pla...n for their next steps in learning. • Staff help children to understand how their behaviour affects other children's feelings.

They learn to be kind to each other and share toys and resources. It is not yet outstanding because: • Although the manager and deputy manager have implemented a new programme to track children's progress, they do not use it fully effectively. They do not monitor individual and groups of children's progress successfully, to identify any less obvious gaps in learning, to help focus teaching more precisely.

• On occasion, staff do not manage group activities well. Some children find it hard to concentrate and listen. They fidget and disrupt other children's learning.