All Saints Playgroup

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Children make good progress relative to their starting points. Staff provide a balanced range of activities as they consider children's interests. Through detailed observations and assessments staff and management effectively track children's progress to enable them to quickly identify and close any gaps in learning.

• Children are happy as they leave their parents. They settle quickly into play and demonstrate they feel safe and secure in their surroundings. Children form close attachments to their key person, supporting their emotional well-being effectively.

• There are good partnerships with parents, carers and other early years professionals.... Staff share detailed information with parents daily about their child's day. Staff keep parents informed about their child's learning and development.

This helps parents to support their child's learning further at home. Parents and carers speak highly about the care provided. • The well-established team of staff work well together to provide good-quality care and teaching.

They complete daily evaluations of activities to help monitor practice and meet children's individual needs effectively. • Although staff support children's emerging language development well, overall, sometimes they use familiar versions of words, rather than teaching children the correct word. • Staff do not always make it clear to the children how much time they have left before activities change to enable them to complete what they are doing to their satisfaction.