Boscastle Playschool

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Leaders and managers have a secure understanding of children's learning and developmental needs. They regularly review the progress children make as individuals and groups. The manager uses effective analysis to help identify any emerging gaps in children's progress.

She addresses these quickly to help ensure children's needs are met. • Staff provide a wide range of activities which children enjoy. Children make good progress from their starting points.

Staff plan next steps which target specific areas of learning and development. Children are confident and well motivated to learn. For instance, staff use creative ways to identify children's emer...ging interests and capture the child's voice as part of the planning cycle.

• Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are well supported. Staff engage with a range of professionals and use effective strategies which help improve outcomes for children. For example, staff use signs supporting speech and make good use of visual aids to improve communication for children with limited speech.

• Staff work closely with parents to share information about their children's care and learning, to help meet children's needs effectively. Parents appreciate the outside space, including forest school and trips to other local areas, which help broaden children's experiences. • Children are happy, settled and confident.

They explore indoors and outside, and are encouraged to manage risks and play safely. For example, they wear helmets as they use bicycles and ride-on toys. Staff give children plenty of praise and encouragement.

This helps children to develop good levels of confidence and self-esteem. • Managers do not reflect on and evaluate training strategies as well as they could, to help develop staff's practice further. This hampers the performance management of staff, to consistently raise the quality of teaching overall.

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