Buzy Bees

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Management and staff work very well together as a strong team. They evaluate their practice regularly and identify ways to make further improvements. For example, staff have given clear focus to developing specific play areas, such as the home or book corner, to encourage children's participation and improve their learning opportunities.

• Staff support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities very well. They make good use of additional funding to provide activities and resources that encourage children's development, such as their physical and social skills, effectively. • Children behave well and respond positively to the friendly, re...assuring approach staff provide.

Staff praise children often and actively support them to understand their emotions and develop good self-esteem. • Staff provide a wide variety of activities that encourage children's participation and interest. Children are motivated to learn through play and they make good progress.

• Although staff work well with agencies involved with children's welfare, they do not always liaise promptly with other settings children attend, to develop regular liaison and support a more consistent approach for children's learning. • Although staff encourage children's awareness of initial letter sounds well, they sometimes miss opportunities to reinforce this understanding. For example, to help children link written letters and sounds more effectively.

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