Cobham Community Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager and staff closely monitor and track the progress of individual children and specific groups. This enables them to promptly highlight any gaps in their development. They provide good support to help children catch up and continue to make good progress.

• Staff establish positive relationships with children. They visit them at their home before they start at the setting to get to know their individual personalities well. This helps children settle quickly, happily and confidently into their play.

• All staff build and maintain good partnerships with parents and keep them fully involved and informed in their children's learning. For exam...ple, they encourage them to regularly add to their children's learning records and share their achievements from home. • The manager and staff establish positive partnerships with other early years professionals.

They regularly communicate with staff at settings children also attend and share the next steps in their learning. This helps them provide children with a good, consistent approach to their shared care and learning. • All children have good opportunities to challenge their physical skills.

They explore different ways to move their bodies. For example, they jump over hurdles in exercise sessions and get into different positions in yoga sessions with confidence. • There are good opportunities for children to develop their mathematical skills to help prepare them for their future move to school.

For instance, they recognise numbers up to 10 in matching games and learn more difficult shapes, such as 'cube' and 'sphere'. • Staff miss some ways to support children to be more independent and complete their own tasks more consistently, to help them gain further skills to support their future learning. • Staff do not consistently extend children's respect and understanding of other people's similarities and differences from around the world.