Leigh Road Baptist Church Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The new manager has developed a range of action plans and made changes that focus on improving practice. For example, she reorganised the session and has seen a decrease in minor accidents occurring during transition times.

• The inviting outdoor area provides a stimulating learning environment for children. They soon become engaged with the interesting resources set up to spark their interests. For example, children are thoroughly engrossed in filling and emptying toy trucks with earth.

They experiment by rolling cars and balls down long cardboard tubes and drainpipes and watch excitedly to see how far they can travel. • Teaching is consistently... strong. Staff instinctively know when to interact with children to support and extend their learning.

For instance, children intently study a bee collecting pollen. This leads to a discussion about honey and where bees live. A member of staff provides a leaflet about minibeasts to help them continue to identify other insects in the garden.

• Mathematics is threaded through the routine activities to support children's deeper understanding of numbers and counting. Children count the number of jumps on the trampoline and ensure there are enough chairs for all the children to sit down. • Children are supported to be emotionally ready for their move to a new school.

Staff accompany children to transition sessions at the local school and they enthusiastically recall their experiences when they arrive back at pre-school. • Tracking systems do not consistently provide precise enough detail to easily identify the progress individual children are making. • The manager has not embedded systems to encourage parents to share their views, to support them to be fully involved in evaluating the provision.