Chestnut Playgroup

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff support children's emotional development exceptionally well.

For example, children are encouraged to talk about how they feel. Staff give children choices to work through their feelings, such as by having quiet time in a comfortable space. • Children confidently choose where they play and learn.

They are undeterred by heavy rain and watch what happens when they add food colouring to muddy puddles. This helps them to develop their understanding of how things change. • Robust staff induction and supervision procedures help managers to monitor staff performance very well.

Staff regularly observe their team members and give constructiv...e feedback to each other, helping to enhance the quality of teaching throughout the playgroup. • Children begin to understand how their bodies work. After physical exercise, they feel how fast their hearts are beating.

They decide they need to rest to recover and know they need to drink water to rehydrate. • Staff teach children to recognise letters and numbers. Children call out the sound made by the first letter of familiar objects during a memory game.

They confidently find cards with their name written on, helping to develop literacy skills in preparation for the next stage in their learning. • The playgroup leader has not fully established ways to help her accurately and swiftly identify any gaps in achievement that groups of children might have. • On occasions, staff do not give children sufficient time to solve problems, predict outcomes and find different ways of doing things for themselves.