Chipmonks Pre-school Limited

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is outstanding • Staff create an extremely welcoming and vibrant environment.

They provide a rich variety of resources for children to explore, such as natural resources and loose parts. These help to capture and sustain children's interest in their own learning. Children are exceptionally well behaved.

• The quality of teaching is highly impressive. Since the last inspection, the manager has embedded new strategies to help staff to raise the quality of their interactions with children. This is helping to ensure that teaching is outstanding.

Staff know their key children extremely well. They embrace every opportunity to challenge children's thinki...ng and teach them new skills. • The manager analyses the progress of individual and groups of children exceptionally well.

She also monitors children's involvement in their self-chosen play. Staff take prompt action to address any gaps in children's learning. For instance, they plan highly effective interventions and adapt the learning environment.

This has an impressive impact on outcomes for children. • The provider and manager are extremely ambitious. They continually look for ways to further improve.

For example, the provider keeps up to date with new initiatives. She researches their potential impact on outcomes for children and then discusses these with her team. They reflect upon how to build these into the pre-school action plan.

• The provider and manager actively seek, consider and value the views of staff, parents and children. For instance, staff share their ideas for how to adapt the learning environment by creating a photograph board. Parents share their views through questionnaires.

Children create collages, cutting out photographs from magazines to show what resources they want to play with. • Outcomes for children are excellent. All children make rapid and consistent progress from their starting points.