Hollybrook @ St Paul’s

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Children are happy and inquisitive learners, who benefit from the wide range of exciting learning experiences that are provided. Children independently select what they would like to do and concentrate on their chosen activities, displaying a can-do attitude and high levels of perseverance.

• Children develop very warm attachments to staff through the fully embedded key-person system. Parents' comments are overwhelmingly positive as they describe the 'home-from-home' environment and the support that staff offer to their families. • The manager closely monitors the assessments of children's progress to check their accuracy.

This information is uti...lised to address gaps in children's learning and enables any additional support to be quickly secured. As a result, all children, including those in receipt of additional funding, make good progress from their starting points. • The dedicated and committed manager works well with her staff team to evaluate the effectiveness of the setting.

Together they reflect on practice and identify areas for further improvement. • Occasionally, staff miss spontaneous opportunities to further challenge children's learning and understanding as they play. • Staff do not gather precise information from parents when children first start at the setting to support planning from the outset.

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