Daisy Chain Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The well-qualified staff have a very good knowledge of the current and future developmental needs of the children in their care. Overall, they plan a wide range of challenging activities and experiences that captures children's interests and motivates them to learn. • Staff make good use of information from observations to assess children's development accurately.

They seek detailed information from parents when children first start at the pre-school. This helps staff to obtain a clear picture of what children already know and can do, and plan effectively for the next steps in their learning. Children make good progress.

• The highly skilled and ...knowledgeable special educational needs coordinator (SENCo) is valued immensely and is an exceptional asset to the staff team. She is fully committed and passionate about her role and strives to ensure that children receive the appropriate support they need, to help to ensure that they can make the very best possible progress. • Children make extremely close relationships with key persons and all staff.

They develop strong friendships with each other and play cooperatively. Children demonstrate extremely high levels of confidence, independence, emotional security and self-esteem. • Staff's partnerships with external professionals and other early years providers are extremely effective.

Their shared approach to children's care and learning helps to promote high levels of consistency and continuity for all children. • Staff do not make the best use of the outdoor environment to help to enhance the development of children who prefer to learn outside. • Staff do not consistently seek the views of parents to help to identify further areas for improvement of the pre-school.