First Steps Fountain Of Life Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The management team leads the pre-school well. The team has effective systems for evaluating the provision that contribute to the drive for high-quality childcare and education.

Management and staff reflect on the service that they provide. They seek the views of parents when planning for improvement. • Staff build exceptionally friendly and trusting relationships with parents.

Parents are respected as their child's key educator and are actively encouraged to remain involved in their child's learning. Parents appreciate the regular meetings with their child's key person where they discuss the next steps in their child's learning. • Staff's knowle...dge and understanding of the learning and development requirements is good.

They plan and deliver an interesting and varied range of activities indoors and outside to promote all areas of learning. Children make good progress. • Staff support children's speech and language development effectively.

They engage children in conversation, ask questions to encourage them to think and actively listen to what they have to say. • Staff are exceptionally caring towards the children. Children come into the pre-school readily and develop highly secure emotional bonds with staff.

• On occasions, staff do not give children the opportunity to complete their self-chosen activities to their own satisfaction before being asked to move on with the routines of the day. • Staff's interaction with children is not as consistently high at times of transition between activities as it is at other times during the session. Children become restless and lose interest as they wait for activities to change.