Chuckles Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff offer a welcoming and nurturing learning environment.

Children settle readily and are happy and content. They develop warm and trusting relationships with their key person. They thoroughly enjoy their time at the pre-school.

• Children behave well. Staff are good role models for children and encourage positive behaviour. They provide children with clear expectations and boundaries when managing their behaviour.

Children learn to respect each other's points of view and to play cooperatively together. • Staff have a good understanding of how children learn and develop. They accurately observe and assess children's progress, and plan ...interesting activities that follow children's interests.

Children make good progress in relation to their starting points. • Staff have developed strong and trusting relationships with parents. Daily conversations between staff and parents help to provide a consistent approach in supporting children's care and learning.

Parents comment that they feel very happy and well informed about the care and learning their children receive. • The manager effectively reflects on the provision to continue to make improvements. For example, she has identified the need to improve the outside area for children who prefer to play outside.

She includes the views of staff and parents in the process. • Systems for evaluating staff practice are not sharply focused to help the good-quality teaching improve to the highest level. • Sometimes during play, staff miss opportunities to fully develop children's mathematical skills and ideas of number, shape, space and measure.