Rosebuds Preschool

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Partnerships with parents are effective. Parents speak highly of the preschool and the helpful staff team. They comment on how happy their children are when they arrive and the good social relationships they build.

• Children behave well and learn good social skills. Staff are good role models, who encourage children to share toys and learn to take turns. Staff consistently praise the children.

This helps to promote their confidence and self-esteem. • The manager has a clear focus on supporting staff professional development, and this is having a positive effect on outcomes for children. • Children are becoming independent learners.

They... follow their own interests by making choices of resources and activities during indoor and outside play. As a result, they become absorbed in purposeful and productive learning. • Staff are motivated, friendly and engage successfully with the children.

They observe and assess children's learning and development effectively and this ensures that children make progress from their starting points, including those children in receipt of additional funding. • Although staff ask good questions to develop children's learning, occasionally they do not provide the time children need to make their responses. • Staff do not consistently provide children with a variety of resources for them to make marks in order to develop early literacy skills.