St Pauls Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • Staff get to know individual children's personalities well. They establish positive relationships with them.

Children have positive levels of well-being and self-worth. • Staff support children to develop good communication skills. For example, they ask them thought-provoking questions and give them time to think and respond.

• The manager closely monitors the consistency of care and teaching experiences that staff provide to children. For instance, she holds regular one-to-one meetings with staff to discuss their performance. They use the feedback they receive to develop their future practice.

• Children have good opportunities to develo...p their writing skills. Younger children give meaning to the marks they make as they draw. Older children write their names confidently.

• Children are polite and behave well. For example, even the youngest children recap the pre-school rules daily and know what is expected of them. • There are good opportunities for children to learn about other people's similarities and differences.

For instance, they learn about festivals and traditions of other religious beliefs, dress in Indian saris and learn about Diwali and Ede. It is not yet outstanding because: • Staff miss some opportunities to extend children's interest to explore and investigate the natural world even further. • The manager and staff do not yet have fully established systems in place to track specific groups of children's progress, to enhance their plans even more effectively.

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