Bodiam Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff and parents have positive partnerships. Parents are very pleased with the daily communication and the frequent opportunities they have to discuss children's learning.

Staff encourage parents to contribute to their children's learning and progress records and most parents do so. • Children have highly positive relationships with their key person. They have secure emotional attachments and this helps to support their very strong sense of self-confidence.

Children's behaviour is exemplary. • The child's key person and parents work together to establish the child's starting point and next steps in their learning. From then on, the key person ob...serves the child at play and plans suitable activities to help them make progress in their learning.

Children make good progress. • Staff have strong links with the local primary school and with other settings where there is shared care. There are strong systems of communication between staff at the pre-school and those at other settings.

This helps to ensure a consistency of care and learning approaches. • Staff provide insufficient opportunities for children to learn about people and communities beyond their own immediate experience. • Sometimes, the questioning skills of staff do not consistently help to support children's independent thinking skills or extend their learning.