Once Upon A Time - City

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Leadership is strong. The management team is well qualified and committed to enhancing staff's skills, knowledge and expertise through various professional development opportunities. This helps to ensure staff are kept up to date with changes to best practice and legislation.

• Staff work in innovatory ways to form positive relationships with all parents. Staff keep parents well informed about how their children are developing and actively encourage parents' involvement in their children's learning and development. • Children behave well.

Staff are good role models and help children to be kind, respectful and caring. Older children show patience ...and turn-taking skills, and use their manners without any prompting from the staff. • Staff are skilled in supporting children who speak English as an additional language.

They use actions, photographs, picture cards and lots of repetition of words in play. Children make consistently good progress in their communication and language development. • Staff complete regular and precise observations of children.

They use information gathered to assess children's development accurately and plan challenging next steps in learning that motivate and excite children. • Self-evaluation is not yet highly effective to move the setting from good to outstanding. • Partnerships with other professionals and external agencies are not always secured quickly enough to ensure children consistently receive the best possible support right from the start.

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