Breadsall Pre-School Playgroup

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Children form secure bonds and attachments with staff. Staff are attentive to the children's needs and help them feel safe and secure.

This helps promote their emotional well-being. Staff get to know each child well and value their individuality. • Staff manage children's behaviour successfully and are good role models.

They share group rules with children and use praise to motivate children to behave in positive ways. Children behave well. They learn to share, take turns and follow instructions.

• The partnership with parents is good. Staff regularly inform parents of their children's progress and provide information about what is happe...ning in the pre-school. Parents comment that they feel involved in all areas of their child's development.

• Staff offer a wide variety of exciting and interesting activities. They provide activities that follow children's interests and encourage them to use their imagination well. Children make good progress from their starting points.

• The manager evaluates the pre-school and welcomes the views of parents, children and staff to identify areas they would like to develop. For example, they have introduced the use of story sacks for parents to take home, to help children's early literacy skills. • Staff carry out observations and assessments of children's achievements and identify their next steps in learning.

However, the manager has not developed an effective system to monitor the learning of different groups of children, in order to help them make the best possible progress. • Occasionally, staff miss opportunities to encourage older children to practise their early writing skills. • At times, art and craft activities are overly adult led, and staff sometimes step in and intervene and stop children expressing their own ideas.

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