Smilers Pre-school

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager supports staff to attend regular training to keep their knowledge and skills up to date.

This helps them to plan a range of activities that successfully motivate children to learn. • Staff build positive relationships with parents. They frequently share children's learning journals and hold daily conversations with parents to keep them fully informed of their child's progress.

Parents comment that they feel involved with their child's learning and enjoy accompanying them on outings into the local community. • Staff use their observations of children's play to plan accurate individual next steps for learning. They closely monitor child...ren's progress, which helps to quickly identify and address any possible gaps in their development.

• Children show high levels of concentration and persevere with tasks, for example when building towers with small blocks for extended periods of time. • Staff make good use of opportunities to extend children's learning. For example, they enthusiastically talk about the worms they find when digging in the garden.

This helps children to learn about living things and the natural world. • Partnerships with other settings that children attend are not fully developed to ensure that children receive full continuity of learning and care. • Occasionally, children miss out on opportunities to play as staff do not organise routines effectively to minimise waiting times for children.

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