Hampton in Arden Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff use their observations and assessment of children's learning effectively to plan and provide activities that challenge them successfully. Staff continually offer strong support, and children make good progress.

• The relationships that staff build with the children are very good. On arrival children separate happily from their parents. Staff agree a settling-in period with parents in accordance with their child's needs.

This helps children to feel emotionally secure when care in the setting begins. • Partnerships between the staff and parents are very good, ensuring that they continually share information in order to meet children's care an...d learning needs. • Staff successfully interpret some younger children's non-verbal forms of communication, while supporting them well in beginning to say single words and then put words together.

• Leadership and management are effective. An experienced manager appointed at the beginning of the autumn term is working effectively in co-management with the former deputy. They are reviewing the provision in order to identify priorities for improvement.

They welcome guidance provided by representatives of the local authority. • On occasions, staff do not give children enough time to put their own thoughts into words when questions are asked of them. • Staff do not fully consider ways to support children's learning about similarities and differences, for example, with regard to cultures, traditions and beliefs beyond their own experience.