Dodleston Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Leaders and managers have a clear vision for the ongoing development of the preschool. They have worked effectively together to meet the previously served welfare requirement notice and ensure that practice promotes children's learning, safety and well-being.

Robust risk assessments have been implemented for all areas of the preschool and procedures for completing accident records have been improved. The indoor environment has been developed to ensure that it is safe, inviting and stimulating. • Children are enthusiastic learners.

They are supported by staff to make the most of every learning opportunity. Staff have high expectations of children ...and ask questions to encourage them to think and to build on children's ideas. • Strong partnership working between staff, parents and healthcare professionals ensures that children with special educational needs and/or disabilities make good progress and are integrated fully into the pre-school.

• The well-qualified staff use 'in the moment' planning methods to stimulate curiosity and to swiftly incorporate children's interests into activities. Children who prefer to learn outdoors are particularly enabled through this approach and the free-flow availability to both environments. • Parents are very happy with the ethos of 'risky play' and state that children have benefited from this approach to learning ways to keep themselves safe and encouraging independence.

• Staff do not provide children with the best possible opportunities to develop an understanding of similarities and differences in others, including different cultures, languages and family backgrounds. • Staff develop successful partnerships with parents and share information with them about their children's ongoing progress. However, not all staff support parents to continue their children's learning at home.