The Courtyard Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • The manager and staff assess children's learning well. They observe children's development and plan for the next steps in their learning to help ensure their good progress.

• Staff are creative and effectively plan a wide range of activities that helps to promote children's learning and interests. For example, they engage children in experimenting with paints to create self-portraits. Children excitedly describe their facial features to staff and to their friends.

• Staff promote diversity highly effectively. They teach children to respect each other's views, similarities and differences. Children learn about festivals, different cultures and thei...r community.

• Staff gather information from parents about children's care needs and tailor practice to ensure these are met. The key-person system is good and children quickly settle at pre-school. • Staff have regular supervision meetings with the manager to discuss their practice.

They benefit from good training and opportunities for professional development to continuously develop their teaching skills. Staff are confident teachers and fully understand their duties. It is not yet outstanding because: • Staff do not share enough information about children's ongoing learning and development with parents to ensure that they have continuous support between home and the pre-school.