Great Bowden Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff are conscientious and hard working.

They provide children with a well-resourced learning environment that helps them to make good progress. • Partnerships with parents are effective and well established. Parents are kept informed about the activities that their children are involved in and the progress that they are making.

Staff provide parents with ideas and guidance about how they can continue to support their children at home. • Staff continuously consider ways to develop the practice of the setting. The views of children, parents and staff are valued and taken into account.

New initiatives that the setting are considering are ...thoroughly evaluated during staff meetings. • Staff observe children as they play. This helps them to make accurate assessments of their current developmental stage and provides opportunities that are appropriate to their next stage in learning.

• Children settle quickly at the setting. They are happy and secure. Children form close attachments to members of staff who are attentive to their individual needs, for instance, when they are tired.

• On occasions the indoor noise levels in the setting do not allow for children's speaking and listening skills to be effectively supported. • Professional development opportunities for staff are not yet fully effective, to help raise the quality of their teaching practice to the highest possible level. • Staff do not always adjust their teaching methods, during planned activities, quickly enough to suit the varying needs of the different ages of children.