Newton Longville Pre-school and Extended Services

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff develop strong partnerships with parents. This is demonstrated when parents are invited to attend regular stay-and-play sessions.

Staff also seek information from parents about children's likes, preferences and routines before they start at pre-school. This helps to promote their emotional development and well-being. • The management team establishes strong procedures to monitor and support staff practice.

For example, staff regularly observe each other and give feedback. The manager completes robust staff supervision meetings. All staff have individual targets to help them to improve their teaching.

• Staff regularly assess childr...en's learning and plan suitably challenging and exciting learning opportunities. Staff make strong use of guidance from professionals, such as speech and language therapists, to support children's needs. • Staff value children's opinions.

They involve them in decision making successfully. This is demonstrated when children vote to decide which book they would like to read in their morning welcome session. This helps to promote children's self-esteem.

• Children make good progress and they are well prepared for their eventual move to school. Staff communicate well with staff at other settings that children transfer to, such as the local school. This helps to ensure continuity in children's care and education.

• The management team monitors the progress of individual children well. However, systems for monitoring the progress that different groups of children make are not fully embedded. • On occasion, staff do not make the best use of opportunities to help children begin to develop an accurate understanding of different sounds and letters.

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