Bethersden Playschool Ltd

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff establish positive partnerships with parents and keep them fully involved.

For example, they regularly encourage parents to add to their children's learning records. Staff share helpful advice to keep parents informed, such as healthy eating tips. • The manager and staff evaluate their practice together effectively.

They hold daily discussions to reflect on how well the day's activities motivated children to learn. Staff use their findings to support their future activity plans. This helps keep children engaged and interested to continue to make good progress in their learning.

• Staff establish inspirational relationships with chi...ldren. Staff get to know them incredibly well. Children are extremely happy and have amazing levels of self-esteem.

• Staff support children to develop very good communication skills. For instance, they are imaginative and enthusiastic to make up their own stories and share their fantasies with their friends. Children are extremely confident to articulate their thoughts and ideas.

• All children have excellent opportunities to be independent. They choose their own play, find their belongings and complete their own tasks with great confidence. • Children have good opportunities to explore and investigate the natural world.

For example, they learn about life cycles of the caterpillar and enjoy regular planting and bug-hunting activities. • Staff miss some ways to extend children's mathematical and number skills to support their future learning even further. • Staff do not consistently support children to develop their skills and interest in their early writing to help prepare them for their eventual move to school more extensively.

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